About the job

Job summary

Navy Commercial is part of Navy Command under the direction of Financial Director FD(N) and delegated by the MOD’s Chief Commercial Officer. The commercial team is responsible for delivering commercial solutions to meet customer requirements for good and services to ensure RN continues to meet its operational objectives in the UK and Overseas.

The Manage team are expanding to manage all Navy contracts and as a result are updating the process and systems needed to administer 200 contracts.

 The role is offered on a hybrid remote working basis. Attendance at Whale Island, Portsmouth will be required on a regular (8xMonth) basis. Staff are able to work remotely/flexibly in accordance with the needs of the business.

This post is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

The post holder will actively lead their commercial team and support their respective line managers in all the necessary commercial activity to enable best Value for Money solutions to be realised within their commercial licence and delegation.

The requires manage and conduct commercial processes in line with the authorised delegation as appropriate. Including:

• Leading or participating in Contract Management or project meetings.
• Negotiating contract changes
• Management of staff
• Oversight of key commercial artefacts inc contract management plans

Person specification

• You should already be working in a commercial environment, developing good relationships with a range of customers/stakeholders, working collaboratively to deliver change or results and demonstrate contract negotiation, supplier management, change management acquisition or sales contracting skills.
• You should be a self starter, who is confident with decision making, and effective communicator, able to work both independently and as part of a team, and have the self-drive and determination to deliver goods and services for our end users.
• You must have the ability to manage competing priorities, assess information rapidly, seek clarity or additional information where necessary and articulate needs or processes in a way that is understood by the stakeholder audience, bearing in mind that often such audiences have very limited or no contract management experience.
• Licenced Commercial Officers are responsible for managing commercial activities across the spectrum of Acquisition and, depending on experience and level of competence, can have delegation to sign contracts of up to £10 Million for Pay Band C1
• You must provide evidence of CIPS level 4/or equivalent or be willing to work towards this by commencing study within one year of appointment, and will be required to undertake the MOD Practitioner Commercial Licence assessment at a date to be agreed with your manager.
• Successful candidates may be eligible for the Commercial Market Skills Allowance on the successful completion of CIPS Level 4 and Licencing Board.
• Individuals are supported to develop and enhance their skills as part of a team of 75 staff.  Across all of our roles we expect our team to take proactive steps to raise Commercial Awareness and provide advice / guidance to non-commercial staff on policy, procedures and the law.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £11,361 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, Experience and Technical skills.

Please enter your CV details setting out your career history, including key responsibilities and achievements.

You must also complete a suitability statement (of no more than 750 words). The suitability statement (also referred to as personal statement or cover letter) is your opportunity to provide us with information that you believe will support your application. Please use this section to provide narrative that highlights any key achievements, experience and skills that make you suitable for this role.

At sift, you will be assessed against:

• CV
• Statement of suitability

At interview, you will be assessed against the following Behaviours and Technical Skills:

• Leadership
• Making effective decisions
• Delivering at pace
• Working together
• Changing and improving
• Contract Management Principle - Understanding Contract Management.

For additional guidance on writing your application please click https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/how-to-write-your-cv/

This vacancy assesses candidates through Success Profiles, the new recruitment framework used within the Civil Service

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

Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly.

We welcome applications from everyone irrespective of gender and ethnic group. Appointment will be based on merit alone.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk 

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. 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

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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.