Assistant Director, Major Programmes Commercial Team

You will build and maintain stakeholder relationships with SRO’s and Programme Directors across HMRC Programme(s), providing specialist Commercial advice in alignment with functional standards (GovS-008) and best practice commercial approaches. The successful candidate will undertake the following activities:

• To be the trusted commercial advisor to, and work with, HMRC’s most high-profile Programmes, developing effective commercial strategies and implementing creative solutions.
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships across HMRC Programme(s), providing specialist Commercial advice on best practice commercial approaches such as value for money through more competition, market engagement, outcome-based requirements, make versus buy, should cost modelling.
• To develop customer relationships to help build a forecast of demand for commercial services and to work collaboratively with commercial colleagues to plan and execute the related commercial work in your Portfolio of Programmes.
• Develop effective Commercial models by constructively challenging requirements and providing innovative solutions.
• Work closely with Commercial colleagues to ensure market intelligence and category expertise are incorporated into Programme decision making, and all Commercial activities are appropriately aligned to relevant Category Plans
• Identify and maintain a forward pipeline of Commercial requirements for the relevant Programme(s), ensuring that the Pre-Award teams have early visibility of forthcoming activity.
• Develop an in-depth knowledge of your Programmes and the outcomes they are delivering to provide appropriate commercial options. Highlighting perceived risks, and issues, working with stakeholders and suppliers to mitigate and manage risks.
• Identify and share opportunities to support HMRC’s strategic objectives and inform category strategies.

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.