About the job

Job summary

The Serious Fraud Office investigates and prosecutes serious or complex fraud, bribery and corruption. We take on a small number of large economic crime cases and pursue criminals for the financial benefit they have made from their crimes and assist overseas jurisdictions with their investigations into serious and complex fraud, bribery and corruption cases.

We are looking for someone with experience of procurement, stakeholder management, contract negotiation and supplier management, to provide support to deliver the procurement of a wide range of goods and services that meet the departments’ requirements and provides value for money. You will need to ensure procurement activities are aligned with relevant departmental or Cabinet Office priorities/strategies, acting in accordance with Cabinet Office and EU procurement rules.

Job description

As a Commercial Manager, you will:

• Understand and support strategic procurement activities to contribute towards the department’s overall objectives.
• Provide general support to case teams with the preparation of business cases, specifications, tender documents, and evaluation of tenders. Drafting initial framework call-off contract terms, contract award, publishing contract awards.
• Use and follow procurement systems and processes in an effective and efficient way. Highlight issues and draft updates and guidance when necessary.
• Assist with the development of the SFO’s contracts database. Input accurate and relevant contract information in order to provide accurate management information and give stakeholders advance notice of expiry and retendering requirements.
• Build relationships with individual suppliers to ensure that SFO’s on-going requirements are met, and contract specifications are adhered to.
• Undertake all procurement activity for goods and services, and being mindful of the legal and commercial risk.
• Assist with the management of all central commercial contracts. Ensuring that suppliers and their supply chain meet their contractual obligations.

For more information about the role and for a full list of key responsibilities, please see attached Job Pack.

Person specification

See above and attached Job Pack.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £32,797, Serious Fraud Office contributes £8,855 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Application stage

As part of the application process you will be required to provide:

• A CV outlining your job history and qualifications and that explains how your skills and experience meet each of the essential and desirable experience criteria as listed in the job pack.

It will not be possible to provide feedback to applicants who are unsuccessful at the application stage.

Interview stage

Behaviours and experience criteria as outlined in the job pack will be tested at interview. 

Full details of the interview process will be made available to shortlisted candidates in the invite to interview.

Sift to take place from 21st February.

Interviews are expected to take place w/c 4th March.

All dates are indicative and subject to change.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.