Commercial Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

These roles will play an important part in supporting activity across our wide-ranging areas of spend and large cross cutting programmes on sourcing and contract management related activity. These are very much commercial delivery roles shaping and delivering commercial solutions.

As a Commercial Officer, you will assist on a range of commercial activities. This is a dynamic and challenging environment, and you will need to be confident in managing complexity, applying judgement, and making decisions whilst collaborating effectively with other members of the team and across the organisation.

Your role may support any of the following Commercial areas:

• Commercial Allocation & Triage: Overseeing the Sourcing & Delivery pipeline, evaluating new-front-door requests in order to prioritise, assess and allocate work to Sourcing & Delivery teams
• Commercial Sourcing: From pre-procurement to contract management, sourcing works across the end-to-end commercial lifecycle to deliver efficient, effective procurements or programmes. Provides crucial input across the commercial lifecycle, supplementing their commercial delivery responsibility through market analysis and engagement efforts, inputting into Sourcing Strategies and implementing procurement initiatives across Sourcing & Delivery to achieve cost efficiencies.
• Commercial Marketplace & Catalogue Management: As Commercial owners of UKHSAs Marketplace platform, the Marketplace & Catalogue Management team enables UKHSA Directorates to be self-sufficient in buying goods and services through continually updating and managing crucial self-serve channels and supporting guidance or relevant information.
• Contract Management: Designated resource responsible for delivering efficient, effective contract management services aligned to policy and best practice.

Essential Criteria:

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working in a commercial role, or involvement in procurement or contract management.
• Practical experience using Finance/Purchasing systems.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Evidence of stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to successfully work in teams, and work on multiple simultaneous projects.
• Experience of public sector procurement legislation
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to urgent unexpected demands
• Willingness and eagerness to join a newly formed team and support health security and public health.

Selection Process Detail

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours andExperience.

Stage 1: Application & Sift Success Profiles

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed 8essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 750 wordsupporting statement.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and supporting statement will be marked together.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Longlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

1. Meets all essential criteria
2. Meets some essential criteria
3. Meets no essential criteria

Those falling into the 'Meets someessential criteria' and the 'Meet all essential criteria' piles will progress to shortlisting.

Shortlisting:

In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on the following essential criteria:

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of working in a commercial role, or involvement in procurement or contract management

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview.

Please do not exceed750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview

Success Profiles

You will be invited to a remote interview.

Behaviours will be tested at interview.

The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be:

• Managing a Quality Service (Lead behaviour)
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

Interview dates are yet to be confirmed.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs.We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London).Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Salary

HEO National £33,422 to £40,731HEO Outer London £35,587 to £43,244HEO Inner London £37,749 to £45,353

Per annum, pro rata

Please note: If you are successful at interview, and are moving from another government department, NHS, or Local Authority, the relevant starting salary principles for level transfers or promotions will apply. Otherwise, roles are offered at the pay scale minimum for the grade, but in exceptional circumstances there may be flexibility if you are able to demonstrate you are already in receipt of an existing, higher salary. Pay increases are through the relevant annual pay award for the role and terms.

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

Person Specification

Application Form and Supporting Statement

Essential

• Application Form and Supporting Statement

Behaviours

Essential

• Managing a Quality Service (Lead behaviour)
• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Core HQs

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)