Commercial Systems Lead - London, United Kingdom - Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Salary:

- £50,829

National: £50,829

Outer London:
£52,741 London: £54,655
Job grade:

Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Loan
Secondment
Length of employment:
These roles are being advertised on a permanent basis. Loan or Secondment options will also be available if preferable.

Business area:

DHSC
Group Operations
Group Operations
Commercial
Type of role:
Business Management and Improvement
Commercial
Procurement and Contracts Management
Risk Management
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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About the job

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Location

Leeds, London, Reading, RuncornAbout the job

Job summary:

In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer.

To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values:
we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you'd like to work in, we'd love to hear from you.

The Commercial Directorate is a strategic and enabling function that supports all DHSC's commercial interactions with third parties and supporting ministers in delivering their agenda.

Our mission is to ensure that health and care policy is implemented at best value for the taxpayer.

We do this by leading and overseeing the department's direct commercial activity, implementing commercial policies across DHSC and its arm length bodies, and acting as advisors to the Secretary of State.

Our vision is to provide a world-class commercial service to enable the health and care system to deliver for the public - we aim to be the best in government commercial for technical expertise and customer focus.

Job description:

The role sits within the Commercial Directorate. The role holder will report to the Head of Business Intelligence and Commercial Systems.

The Commercial Systems & Intelligence team has ownership and accountability of the technology used to manage the commercial lifecycle from source to contract across the Health System (the DHSC, it's ALBs and the NHS).

We are on an ambitious journey which will create an industry leading platform, with easy access to data creating visibility of commercial pipelines, enabling collaboration to drive commercial effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and resilience.

Overview of the post/area of work

Identify and realise opportunities for systems and reporting synergy across NHS Trusts systems, Arm's length Bodies and the Department itself, extending this to Central Government when possible;
Support the development of staff in the Commercial Systems & Intelligence team, as well as colleagues across the wider Directorate, to ensure benefits of data and systems investment are realised;
Contract ownership of commercial systems contracts. Leading on renewal / replacement of commercial systems aligned to the commercial systems and data strategy
Change management ownership and oversight of the Commercial systems
Collaborating across the department and work closely with Other Government Departments
Supplier relationship and performance management, ensuring the department receives the contracted services and the supplier is supported sufficiently to develop and grow

Role responsibilities

Team leader of the Commercial Systems team, which is currently 3 direct reports.
Lead on cross departmental working groups to drive a prioritised enhancement list of development of commercial systems
Commercial

systems change governance and oversight lead using best practice change principles to deliver a quality service

Impact Assessment of product development release notes and coordination with Change Assurance Board
Business contract manager of the Health System Contract with eprocurement provider, ensuring supplier and contract performance is managed in accordance with commercial standards.
Ownership of financial management of commercial systems contracts, ensuring invoices are paid and recharging is managed effectively.
Lead on regular reviews of risk based due diligence for contracts related commercial systems.
Manage business risks to ensure the commercial systems and data strategy is delivered to the expected standard
Process owner of 2nd line internal support of the commercial system
Support Finance team with development and testing of the downstream finance system, working closely with commercial policy and process team.

Person specification:

Key skills and experience required for the role

Experience or understanding of system configuration and impact on relevant datasets
Experience of setting up and leading on systems change/release management
Contract and supplier management experience
Highly literate, capable of drafting communications of a high standard to be read by a wide