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SalaryThe Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include Break the Stigma, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career.
About the Directorate
The Finance, Commercial, Sustainability & Property Directorate is responsible for managing both the Insolvency Service’s finances and for all commercial related activities. We are a close-knit directorate, committed to supporting the agency’s operational business and objectives as well as its estates, sustainability and health & safety remit.
About the Team
The Commercial Team is a small team of dedicated and highly skilled commercial professionals, performing at an exceptionally high level and based nationally across the Insolvency estate. The team operates on a flexible working basis, with a hybrid of remote and office-based working. The Commercial Team is embedded within the Government Commercial Function applying the Government Commercial Operating Standards, working in accordance with the People Standards for the Commercial profession and undertaking the Commercial Continuous Improvement Assessment Framework.
The Commercial team at INSS is currently expanding to meet the exciting challenges across the Sourcing Pipeline, Contract Management landscape, Transforming Public Procurement and to drive best practice against the Commercial Functional Standards. As a result, we’re currently recruiting against a number of C2 (SEO) Commercial roles. Any candidate who passes the interview but is unsuccessful in being offered this role, may be considered via the Reserve List for one of the other Commercial roles currently being recruited into.
We operate a Category Management approach within our Commercial Team, consisting of 4 Category Teams; Digital & Data category, Technology & Change category, Corporate Services & Operations category and Commercial Governance & Policy category. As such we are responsible for a whole lifecycle approach to commercial activities. This may include leading a requirement from inception, through the Commercial sourcing cycle, mobilisation and contract management, through to Exit and Transition.
Within the Commercial Team at the Insolvency Service, we believe there are huge benefits to working within a small team. We provide our Procurement and Contracts Managers (Commercial Business Partners) access to complex and strategic work which enables them to demonstrate their abilities and take on extra responsibility more than other roles, with appropriate levels of empowerment. The success of our leadership approach and commercial model is borne out by the fact that our leavers almost always leave on promotion!
Roles and Responsibilities
This role sits within either our Technology and Change category or a newly created Digital and Data category. The Technology and Change team is responsible for technology commercial work across all agency-wide ICT products and services and pre-dominantly outsourced third party provisioned services/tools which are key enablers of the agency’s role. These include e.g. End User Compute services, Cloud Hosting (MS Azure), Services Integration and Management (SIAM), Network services, Unified Comms, Cyber Security, procurement of essential hardware and range of Microsoft and other software products. All of these along with Core Technology management and more contribute to the wider agency IT eco-system that supports business delivery.
The Digital and Data team is responsible for commercial sourcing and contract management to support the delivery of IT-related services specific to our operational teams, such as the delivery and development of the agency’s case management system (CMS), key Customer Digital Services such as the Debt Relief Orders, Redundancy Payments and Breathing Space services as well as managing licensing and applications development and integrations for our operational colleagues’ Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software solutions.
Reporting to one of two D2 (Grade 7) Heads of Category, you will be responsible for leading on a portfolio of commercial activity within either the Technology and Change or Digital and Data categories in the Insolvency Service’s commercial team. We operate a cross functional relationship model and you’ll build relationships and manage stakeholders across a directorate or the agency, in order to provide them with commercial support for their technology and digital requirements and existing and future contracts.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work across the organisation and support the underpinning Digital and Technology strategy to improve our services to the public and the country, by providing commercial insight and expertise.
