What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Officer position at UK Health Security Agency?
Location
Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London
About The Job
Job summary
These roles sit within the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate. Truly dynamic, our teams operate at significant pace in a commercially complex environment. UKHSA’s Commercial teams continue to play a central role in priority activity, supporting the response to health threats such as Mpox (Monkeypox) and Strep A as they occur, and ensuring a resilient infrastructure to secure the UK in the strongest position to protect the public from future threats to health.
Working for Our Organisation
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Job Description
We are looking for Commercial Officers to join our Sourcing & Delivery and Commercial Programmes teams, part of the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate.
These roles will play an important part in supporting activity across our wide-ranging areas of spend and large cross cutting programmes on sourcing and contract management related activity. These are very much commercial delivery roles shaping and delivering commercial solutions.
As a Commercial Officer, you will assist on a range of commercial activities. This is a dynamic and challenging environment, and you will need to be confident in managing complexity, applying judgement, and making decisions whilst collaborating effectively with other members of the team and across the organisation.
Your role may support any of the following Commercial areas:
In UKHSA Commercial we operate a hybrid working policy and have colleagues based all across the UK (offices located in Birmingham, London, Liverpool and Leeds), meaning you will have exposure to a range of experiences and a variety of work as you develop your commercial career.
Person specification
Your application will be assessed against the following essential criteria required for the role:
Essential
Alongside your salary of £31,997, UK Health Security Agency contributes £9,269 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours.
Stage 1: Application & Sift
You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the above listed 5 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:
The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked separately, and you must pass both to move forward to interview.
Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:
Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on the essential criteria: Experience of working in a commercial role, or involvement in procurement or contract management.
Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview.
Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.
Feedback will not be provided at this stage.
Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.
Stage 2: Interview (Success Profiles)
You will be invited to a remote interview.
Behaviours will be tested at interview.
The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be
Location
This role is being offered as hybrid working based at one of our Core HQs in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month).
Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Eligibility Criteria
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including internal applicants).
Security Clearance Level Requirement
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Successful candidates will require Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) as a minimum with willingness and capability to work towards Security Check (SC) clearance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting at this level and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder / Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
Eligibility Criteria
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including internal applicants).
Reasonable Adjustments
The Civil Service is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, we will consider any reasonable adjustments that could help you. An adjustment is a change to the recruitment process or an adjustment at work. This is separate to the Disability Confident Scheme. If you need an adjustment to be made at any point during the recruitment process you should c ontact the recruitment team in confidence as soon as possible to discuss your needs. You can find out more information about reasonable adjustments across the Civil Service here: https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments/
International Police Check
If you have spent more than 6 months abroad over the last 3 years you may need an International Police Check. This would not necessarily have to be in a single block, and it could be time accrued over that period.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Your application may be rejected and/or you may be subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) . See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
Apply and further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: Complaints@ukhsa.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/
Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London
About The Job
Job summary
These roles sit within the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate. Truly dynamic, our teams operate at significant pace in a commercially complex environment. UKHSA’s Commercial teams continue to play a central role in priority activity, supporting the response to health threats such as Mpox (Monkeypox) and Strep A as they occur, and ensuring a resilient infrastructure to secure the UK in the strongest position to protect the public from future threats to health.
Working for Our Organisation
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Job Description
We are looking for Commercial Officers to join our Sourcing & Delivery and Commercial Programmes teams, part of the Commercial, Vaccines and Countermeasures Delivery (CVCD) Directorate.
These roles will play an important part in supporting activity across our wide-ranging areas of spend and large cross cutting programmes on sourcing and contract management related activity. These are very much commercial delivery roles shaping and delivering commercial solutions.
As a Commercial Officer, you will assist on a range of commercial activities. This is a dynamic and challenging environment, and you will need to be confident in managing complexity, applying judgement, and making decisions whilst collaborating effectively with other members of the team and across the organisation.
Your role may support any of the following Commercial areas:
- Commercial Allocation & Triage: Overseeing the Sourcing & Delivery pipeline, evaluating new-front-door requests in order to prioritise, assess and allocate work to Sourcing & Delivery teams
- Commercial Sourcing: From pre-procurement to contract management, sourcing works across the end-to-end commercial lifecycle to deliver efficient, effective procurements or programmes. Provides crucial input across the commercial lifecycle, supplementing their commercial delivery responsibility through market analysis and engagement efforts, inputting into Sourcing Strategies and implementing procurement initiatives across Sourcing & Delivery to achieve cost efficiencies.
- Commercial Marketplace & Catalogue Management: As Commercial owners of UKHSA’s Marketplace platform, the Marketplace & Catalogue Management team enables UKHSA Directorates to be self-sufficient in buying goods and services through continually updating and managing crucial self-serve channels and supporting guidance or relevant information.
- Major Commercial Programmes: Aligned to strategic programmes, Commercial Partners own and guide a portfolio of transformative change, in collaboration with project and procurement teams to shape, informing and assuring the delivery of programme business cases.
- Contract Management: Designated resource responsible for delivering efficient, effective contract management services aligned to policy and best practice.
- Supporting senior managers, stakeholders and suppliers to deliver high quality commercial solutions for the UKHSA.
- Supporting specific portfolios of sourcing / tenders / contracts, as well as other projects.
- Supporting supplier performance and commercial meetings to ensure contract obligations are met and additional value is achieved.
- Supporting competition exercises using the e-tendering portal (Atamis), including mini competitions, open competitions and if necessary direct awards or single tenders.
- Supporting the drafting of commercial documents, including tenders, contracts and contract change notes, working closely with finance and legal partners where necessary.
- Supporting analysis of markets, suppliers and conducting due diligence if necessary or working with subject matter experts where necessary.
- Leading on the full compliance of data and data entry to ensure reporting is robust and accurate.
- Ensuring all commercial activity is compliant with legislative obligation, UKHSA Standing financial instructions and government best practice.
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders to deal with queries and questions.
- Involved in responding to Freedom of Information requests (FOIA’s); Parliamentary Questions (PQ’s) and other media queries.
In UKHSA Commercial we operate a hybrid working policy and have colleagues based all across the UK (offices located in Birmingham, London, Liverpool and Leeds), meaning you will have exposure to a range of experiences and a variety of work as you develop your commercial career.
Person specification
Your application will be assessed against the following essential criteria required for the role:
Essential
- Experience of working in a commercial role, or involvement in procurement or contract management
- Knowledge of public sector procurement legislation and commercial principles
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Stakeholder management skills
- Experience of working in teams and working on multiple simultaneous projects.
Alongside your salary of £31,997, UK Health Security Agency contributes £9,269 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours.
Stage 1: Application & Sift
You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the above listed 5 essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:
- Application form (‘Employer/ Activity history’ section on the application)
- 750 word Statement of Suitability.
The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked separately, and you must pass both to move forward to interview.
Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:
- Meets all essential criteria
- Meets some essential criteria
- Meets no essential criteria
Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on the essential criteria: Experience of working in a commercial role, or involvement in procurement or contract management.
Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview.
Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.
Feedback will not be provided at this stage.
Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.
Stage 2: Interview (Success Profiles)
You will be invited to a remote interview.
Behaviours will be tested at interview.
The Behaviours tested during the interview stage will be
- Communicating & Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
Location
This role is being offered as hybrid working based at one of our Core HQs in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or London. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month).
Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).
Eligibility Criteria
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including internal applicants).
Security Clearance Level Requirement
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Successful candidates will require Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) as a minimum with willingness and capability to work towards Security Check (SC) clearance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 5 years to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting at this level and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder / Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.
Eligibility Criteria
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including internal applicants).
Reasonable Adjustments
The Civil Service is committed to making sure that our selection methods are fair to everyone. To help you during the recruitment process, we will consider any reasonable adjustments that could help you. An adjustment is a change to the recruitment process or an adjustment at work. This is separate to the Disability Confident Scheme. If you need an adjustment to be made at any point during the recruitment process you should c ontact the recruitment team in confidence as soon as possible to discuss your needs. You can find out more information about reasonable adjustments across the Civil Service here: https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/reasonable-adjustments/
International Police Check
If you have spent more than 6 months abroad over the last 3 years you may need an International Police Check. This would not necessarily have to be in a single block, and it could be time accrued over that period.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Your application may be rejected and/or you may be subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence (AI), as your own.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) . See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
Apply and further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Jon Payne
- Email : recruitment@ukihsa.gov.uk
- Email : recruitment@ukihsa.gov.uk
The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: Complaints@ukhsa.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website: https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/
Salary : $31,997
