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UK Intelligence Community (UKIC) Commercial Director
2 years ago
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This role is based in London or Cheltenham. The role will require regular travel between both sites and across multiple UK locations and occasionally overseas.
Note: Interviews will be held in person in London
- The ambition of the UKIC Corporate Services organization is to provide a customer-centric, professional service that meets the needs of the three Agencies’ (MI5, MI6 and GCHQ) missions. The organization supports all three Agencies and consists of three key functions: Commercial, People and Finance.
- As the Commercial Director, you will be part of the senior leadership team, reporting into the Director General Corporate Services (DGCS) of MI5. Heading this area, you will play a key role in the development of the shared corporate services organization not only as a functional lead, but as a senior leader across all the functions.
- As the Commercial Director you will support and enable front-line work by providing cutting-edge supply arrangements, not just delivering ‘today’ but supporting the Agencies in their ambitious transformation agendas across diversity and inclusion, operational, digital, science and technology as well as corporate and estates and workforce arenas.
- The scale of transformation is significant and also includes geographical expansion across the UK, as the Government ‘levels-up’ opportunity across the country. The Commercial Function plays a core enabling role in all these plans and programs and your advocacy of how the function enables and drives each is key. Central to your role will be proving to your colleagues and stakeholders that Commercial not only enables supply of exceptional services from industry but can drive new innovation and co-creation within the business.
- As Commercial Director you will lead a large team across multiple locations including London and Cheltenham. You will have direct line-management responsibility for a Senior Commercial Specialist who manages the 3 core Categories of estates, technology and professional services and people and Supply Chain Security. Your other direct line management responsibilities will be for a small number of Deputy Directors who lead the Customer Facing Teams and Commercial Operations.
Person specification
- Leading the next chapter of the multi-year transformation of the Commercial Function, to enable and support delivery to the agencies throughout the Community. They will also need to realise Spending Review (SR) 2021 goals and develop the strategic plan for the next SR.
- Building on the work achieved already on an Agencies-wide Commercial Strategy, for a large and particularly complex supply portfolio. Ensuring it delivers external partners that fully meet future supply-side challenges and brings innovation “from outside, in”.
- Fully embedding the Government’s Social Value Model across the highest value contracts in the supply chain, including making sure that the Community’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) targets for their own organizations are mirrored across the supply chain.
- Enabling the forthcoming digital transformation for the Function and its customers.
- Overall leadership of the Commercial Function, growing a diverse workforce and creating an engaging and inclusive environment for people to thrive.
- Overall delivery of the Commercial agenda to budget, security and quality of service performance.
You will be a role model leader and have substantial experience of managing change and transformation in complex environments. With overall accountability and responsibility for the Function, you will be an advocate for what the team “can do and the value it adds” across the Community. You will also play an important governance role and represent the Commercial Function at various councils and committees, including within the Government Commercial Function.
The successful candidate will:
- Be amongst the most senior members of the Government Commercial Function and play a role in the broader commercial reform program led by the Government Chief Commercial Officer.
- Play a key leadership and change management role in developing a strong commercial function for UKIC and across Government.
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Extensive commercial experience in multi-million-pound contracts in complex and demanding environments with experience operating at senior leadership level
- Proven track record in building high-performing, diverse and inclusive teams across an extensive and complex Commercial Function
- Deep understanding of Public Sector Procurement regulations and Transforming Public Procurement legislation as well as commercial and procurement practices from the perspective of suppliers, buyers and the public sector context
- Extensive experience of senior stakeholder management. Your ability to present complex technical and commercial issues in a clear way both orally and in writing so that they are easily and fully understood by senior stakeholders
- Track record in leading a team through a digital transformation in a shared services/services delivery context delivering continuous improvement to a customer-focused service, driving efficiencies and Value for Money