Assistant Commercial Lead Birmingham, England
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Our Mission
At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission!
We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.
Our Inclusive Environment
We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.
We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.
We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process.
Job description
There are a number of roles that BEIS are recruiting for within the Commercial team:
Great British Nuclear:
The purpose of this role will be to provide commercial advice and support to Great British Nuclear (GBN). GBN is being established to enable the delivery of new nuclear projects including helping projects through every stage of the nuclear development process to develop a resilient pipeline of new builds. The role will involve advising stakeholders on a range of matters across the commercial life cycle. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivery of sourcing activities including running of legally compliant procurement's, advising stakeholders on the best routes to market, increasing market capability, developing commercial strategies and business cases, and supporting the management of contracts and supplier relationships.
Net Zero Building - Portfolio and Domestic:
This will be supporting ongoing public sector procurement's mostly through frameworks and the commercial business partnering support for the contracts n this space. This would support the G7 to engage in stakeholder management and strategic review of engagements.
Non Nuclear Energy:
The purpose of this role will be to provide commercial support to the Non Nuclear Energy within the Energy and Security DG Group. The appointed individual will be responsible for the procurement and contract management of essential supporting contracts, such as audit & assurance services, monitoring & evaluation services, and contact
centre services which are critical to the delivery of various energy support schemes. In addition, the individual will be responsible for running other procurement's as requested and managing the procurement pipeline, agreements register and commercial database.
Digital:
The role of the Digital Commercial team be to provide commercial advice and support for core BEIS Digital commercial requirements. The team’s role is supported by a recently developed Digital Category Strategy, which provides a framework to facilitate the procurement of digital goods and services. Through its implementation it aims to drive greater efficiency across digital procurement as well as a reduction in the amount of shadow IT spend. It covers the 3 areas of the Data, Digital & Technology function of: technology products and services; applications and network services.
Person specification
- Work collaboratively and build relationships with colleagues in Finance, Project Delivery, Legal and support senior leadership teams.
- Support the sourcing process, including: bid evaluation, market engagement, prioritisation and setting expectations regarding timelines.
- Providing guidance on governance and procurement processes, contributing to the development and maintenance of the commercial pipeline on Jaggaer procurement system.
- Mitigate risk by ensuring full compliance with all relevant policies and procedures.
- Support the commercial management process, including monitoring, performance management, appropriate management of information, variations and extensions.
- Strong persuasion skills are required for influencing and engaging senior stakeholders, including presentation skills.
Skills and Experience
- Demonstrate knowledge/understanding of procurement and commercial management best practice.
- Demonstrate capability of delivering projects across the full commercial lifecycle.
- Demonstrate capability to work proactively and take ownership and accountability of your own tasks and work.
- Demonstrate capability in managing stakeholders and establishing relationships both internal and external to your organisation.
- Demonstrate understanding of commercial risk, and the ability to identify, mitigate and escalate as appropriate.
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrate previous public, private or third sector experience working with contracts and supply chain management.
Desirable:
- CIPS or IACCM qualifications
- Experience of Crown Commercial Services frameworks
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Procurement or contract management experience
- Working under pressure
- Stakeholder engagement
Benefits
A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need (from September 2021, depending on how the public health guidance evolves).
For the full list and to see our commitment to diversity and inclusion, please see the attached Employee Offer booklet.
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Selection process details
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Please use your personal statement (in no more than 500 words) to support your suitability against the key responsibilities
Applications will be sifted on behavioural statements, personal statement, and any technical skills required.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will consist of behaviour and technical questions.
Expected Timeline subject to change
Sift dates: w/c 27/02/2023
Interview dates: w/c 13/03/2023
Interview Location: MS Teams.
Candidates are asked to note the above timetable, exercising flexibility through the recruitment and selection process.
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Reasonable Adjustment
If a disabled person is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
- Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
We are proud to be a disability confident leader, more information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that BEIS offers to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our candidate guidance document. A plain text version of the guidance is also available.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Any move to Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
BEIS does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).
BEIS cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. BEIS holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service / Disclosure Scotland on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email [email protected]
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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