The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas.

More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office

As a Senior Commercial Business Partner - (Inside IR35), your main responsibilities would be:

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  Act as a commercial advisor to the department, providing advice, guidance and support to the Business Unit to enable commercial opportunities and consequences to be understood

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  Build effective relationships across your business unit (and when applicable across other central government organisations), fostering trust and transparency in order to allow you to provide the best level of commercial advice and guidance

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  Work with the other team members to enable continual improvement and commercial capability development across the business unit.

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  Provide hands-on targeted procurement or contract management support where required, for example where a contract or procurement activity is identified as being at risk or of high importance

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  Work with the relevant Head of Commercial to implement any new governmental commercial policies across the department, engaging with the Government Commercial Function and other cross government departments where necessary

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  Take responsibility for ensuring that a robust commercial pipeline and contracts register is in place for the business unit, working in partnership with the central Commercial Pipeline Manager

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  Provide input to Management reports and other requests for information as required

Essential:

• Breadth of experience working within a commercial setting in government or the public sector or significant experience working in a regulated environment - ESSENTIAL

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  Understanding of commercial, contract and supplier relationship management techniques and demonstrable experience of applying them in practice - ESSENTIAL

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  Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to advise and guide stakeholders and build relationships with customers and suppliers - ESSENTIAL

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  Ability to evaluate and present complex contractual issues resulting in sound recommendations to senior managers for solutions - ESSENTIAL

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  Public Sector experience of large scale multi-million-pound complex projects – ESSENTIAL

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  MCIPS - ESSENTIAL

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.