Senior Manager - Home Affairs, Commercial

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This role is focused on strengthening our Government Commercial capability within Home Affairs, helping clients improve how they procure, contract, manage suppliers and deliver value.

Our Home Affairs team works at the heart of UK Government, partnering with clients across Policing, Defence, Justice, the Home Office and Arm’s Length Bodies to deliver lasting change for citizens across the UK.

Commercial capability is critical to helping the public sector respond to major challenges, improve value for money, strengthen supplier performance and build more effective operating models.

If you are excited by helping government clients solve complex commercial challenges and deliver meaningful public value, we would love to hear from you.

• →Leading government commercial transformation work for Home Affairs and wider public sector clients, helping them improve how they procure, contract, manage suppliers and deliver value.
• →You will design and improve commercial operating models, including governance, processes, decision rights, accountabilities, controls and ways of working.
• →Advising clients on commercial efficiency opportunities, helping them identify where commercial functions, supplier arrangements or contracts can deliver better value for money.
• →You will bring practical knowledge of government commercial regulations, procurement requirements, approval routes and governance into client delivery.
• →Working alongside broader Baringa teams to embed commercial expertise into transformation, operating model, digital, data, technology and change programmes.
• →You will build trusted relationships with senior government stakeholders, including commercial directors, operational leaders, finance teams, policy teams and delivery partners.

• →You will identify and shape new opportunities with Home Affairs and wider public sector clients, contributing to proposals, account development and the growth of Baringa’s government commercial capability.
• →You will lead and develop consultants within multi-disciplinary teams, providing direction, coaching and feedback while building Baringa’s internal commercial knowledge and methods.

We are looking for someone with strong experience helping government or public sector organisations improve their commercial functions. This could include procurement, commercial operating models, supplier management, contract management, commercial efficiency and commercial transformation.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience in some of the following:

• You will have experience delivering commercial, procurement or supplier-related transformation work in Home Affairs or wider public sector environments.
• You may have built your experience in consulting, within a government commercial function, or through a combination of both. We are particularly interested in people who understand consulting delivery and can bring real government commercial expertise into the team.
• You will have a strong understanding of how government commercial functions operate, including procurement regulations, governance, approvals, controls and stakeholder dynamics.
• You have experience of working in complex commercial environments, helping programmes to deliver transformation through procurement activity'
• You will have experience designing, assessing or improving commercial operating models, including structures, roles, processes, decision-making, capability and ways of working.
• You will have experience identifying and delivering commercial efficiencies, value for money opportunities, supplier performance improvements or contract management improvements.
• You will have experience working in complex, high-value, multi-stakeholder environments where commercial, operational, policy and delivery priorities need to be balanced.
• You will have exposure to Home Affairs or adjacent government areas such as policing, law enforcement, justice, defence, national security, the Home Office or central government.
• You will have experience leading client workstreams or teams, producing high-quality deliverables and turning commercial expertise into practical recommendations.
• You will have an established network and experience leading business development, including shaping opportunities, contributing to proposals or developing client relationships.

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