About the job

Job summary

This role will require you to use your existing skills to create suitable solutions to data related challenges. Utilising existing and new technology to create a single version of the truth that helps to mitigate potential risks and to reduce the administration burden on your colleagues.

The Role:

The role is responsible for managing and enhancing the data quality of one of CCS’ largest categories. You will be covering the provision of products and services related to gas, electricity, fuels and water to public sector customers. 

 

Within our gas and electricity frameworks there are over 1,200 customers and over 90k meter points. The role is primarily responsible for developing and delivering innovative solutions to enhance the quality, efficiency and robustness of data across the Energy frameworks. This includes completing data quality assessments, developing and enhancing data management processes and practices, creating dashboards and MI and delivering creative solutions to mitigate the risk of data errors.

Commercial overview:

Commercial is the largest directorate in CCS and is responsible for the design, development, implementation and management of our commercial agreements, which are used by our customers across the public sector. We have helped our customers:

• spend more than £34 billion through the agreements we create

• enjoy more than £3.5 billion in commercial benefits annually through our agreements

Category management sits at the heart of CCS. We use our deep knowledge and expertise of public sector suppliers, to create market and category strategies. These strategies are used within CCS to create market leading commercial agreements that help shape how common goods and services are bought across the public sector. 

Our skills are also used in carrying out commercial policy, development of new products and services and supplier relationship management.

Team Summary

The Energy Team manages spend of c.£4bn p.a. and supports buyers from every area of central government and the wider public sector - encompassing, gas, electricity, fuels and water. The Team has a variety of specialisms, including specialist customer service, portfolio management, trading and risk teams. 

 

The Data Quality Manager role falls within the Portfolio Management team, responsible for ensuring the accuracy and quality of data, delivering increased robustness in our data management practices and mitigating the risk of errors.

Job description

Key Accountabilities

• Delivering activities to improve the robustness, quality and efficiency of the data management practices within the Energy team

• Leading the review of data management practices across Energy, including interfaces with customers and suppliers

• Completion of data quality assessments and the identification and delivery of improvements, with the aim of delivering a ‘single source of the truth’

• Developing and delivering improvement plans to enhance the effectiveness of how data is processed and managed, including monitoring their effectiveness

• Creating and managing processes that are needed for effective data quality management across Energy, ensuring processes are implemented and maintained across the team

• Development of user guidance and work packages to ensure data management practices are documented, understood and adhered to

• Development of data dashboards and MI to support the management of Energy frameworks

• Identifying and delivering innovative ways to automate and enhance data management practices within Energy

• Building strong relationships across Energy and the wider organisation to understand data requirements and engage with relevant stakeholders, such as data owners, data managers, data architects, data engineers and data users, in resolving quality issues

• Supporting the development of a roadmap of data quality work and prioritisation of data quality enhancements

• Ensuring that existing data and automation related skills are utilised to achieve key objectives.

• Some travel is required

Person specification

Essential Criteria (to be assessed on application):

• Experience and understanding of Azure (e.g. Data Factory, Logic Apps), SQL, Excel, databases, data models and other programming languages (ideally with certification)

• Experience identifying and delivering data driven solutions and processes to improve the quality and accuracy of large  disparate datasets

• Experience conducting data quality audits and delivery of process improvements

• A solution oriented mindset, focusing upon problem solving and delivering value from opportunities 

• Experience of building, maintaining, and influencing relationships via meaningful conversations with both internal and external stakeholders

Desirable Criteria:

• Energy industry experience and knowledge of industry specific datasets

In the event of a high number of applications, the desirable criteria will be used as a second sift.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,031, Crown Commercial Service contributes £15,632 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Technical skills.

Selection Process

Candidates who are successful at sift will be contacted as soon as possible following the closing date and advised of the interview process in more detail. The sift will commence WC 1st April and interviews will be held WC 15th April either at one of our offices or via video with interview times and dates to be confirmed. (Subject to change)

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Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.

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 counter-terrorist 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

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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.