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The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems: Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in – this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

As a IT Commercial Lead your main responsibilities will be: 

• To enable management and end-to-end delivery of critical procurements to support the DDaT Enterprise Services Team including End User Compute (EUC) and the Shared Applications Service (SAS).
• To support other areas of DDaT including Service Operations, Service Desk, Service Management and Service Design.The primary role is to support EUC and SAS progressing procurements to support their priorities. New contracts have been recently signed to replace the current mobile and data services contract along with a new hardware supply contract.  These contracts require commercial support to on-boarding and transition in to BAU. EUC are also looking to procure a burst capacity supplier to support additional demands.
• The Shared Applications Service has on-going demand to support commercial requirements with appropriate commercial controls and processes to enable SAS to progress and agree SoW
• Each area and priority require commercial expertise to test the market / requirement, develop commercial thinking and confirm that the market / supplier has been thoroughly explored and tested to ensure compliance with the Public Service Regulations 2015

You’ll have relevant experience in:

• An expert in managing major and complex IT contracts and ensuring the best value for money is obtained.
• Full understanding of public sector procurement, and EU Regulations.
• Full knowledge of CCS Frameworks and methods of accessing those Frameworks.
• Understanding of the government's digital and technology transformation agenda and why the government is changing the way it does digital and technology projects.
• Experience in managing high value, technical ICT procurements
• The ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, bring together people and views to inform decision making, and be willing to support work that isn't part of your core role
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people
• Qualified CIPS
• Active SC Clearance

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with helen.hollywood@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, the Home Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

Home Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

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.