Deputy Commercial Director – Programmes

The FCDO delivers for the UK internationally, leading the government’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world. Our work aims to:

• Shape an open and stable international order through strong alliances and future partnerships.
• Protect our national and international security and mitigate any threats.
• Reinvigorate the UK’s leadership role in international development to tackle shared global challenges, respond to humanitarian crises, and support the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Support British nationals around the world by providing resilient 24/7 Consular services and agile crisis response.

The Commercial Directorate provides an end-to-end procurement and commercial solutions to deliver FCDO business, whether that’s development programmes, corporate and people services, or managing and improving our overseas estate, IT and security. Overall, the Commercial Directorate provides robust and proportionate review and assurance of FCDO’s third party spending.  The Commercial Vision is:

“Delivering better diplomatic and development outcomes through global commercial excellence.”

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to take a leadership role in Commercial Programmes Delivery responsible for advising and procuring for a wide & diverse range of complex International Development Programmes. Commercial Programmes Delivery currently consists of the following Pillars and cross-cutting teams:

• Indo Pacific and Americas & OTs, Climate and BIP
• Girls Education, Gender, Science & Research, Health
• Africa
• MENA, AFPAK, EECAD & Humanitarian
• Conflict, Security & Open Societies
• Frameworks & Grants
• Supply Chain Management

The FCDO Commercial function is responsible for all of FCDO’s 3rd party spend both on programmes (Policy Priority themes) and corporate (Estates, ICT and Professional Services). The primary purpose of the Deputy Commercial Director is to provide clear commercial leadership to the Programmes commercial team and wider FCDO organisation, as well as providing leadership across wider FCDO Commercial. This is a leadership role able to advise and provide guidance to other members of the Commercial team where necessary. This role covers all areas of FCDO globally. As part of the Commercial directorate Senior Leadership Team (SLT), the Deputy Commercial Director will also be involved in setting the strategy of the directorate and will take an active role in ensuring that the directorate delivers its outcomes and lead on strategic improvement initiatives.

Locations

The successful candidate(s) will be able to agree a contractual workplace from those locations listed in this advert. When selecting your location listed in this job advert please be aware that this will be your contractual base location with a requirement to spend a minimum of 60% of your working time in this organisational workplace.

Your time spent on official duties at workplace locations other than your contractual office such as supplier, customer or partner locations required to perform your role is included in the 60% attendance.

This requirement will however take into consideration any reasonable adjustments agreed upon appointment for people with a disability, flexibilities agreed for those with specific caring responsibilities, or other similar temporary flexibilities.