Length of employment: Job Summary: DIO provides the infrastructure which supports the ability for this country's Defence operation to live, work and train in the UK and abroad. Our teams play a key role in delivering the UK's Defence objectives and are responsible for a land mass which represents 2% of the entire UK. Our estate is incredibly complex but highly interesting, and for the right candidate who's interested in empowering a Commercial team to deliver great supply chains to deliver across the Estate this would be a fantastic role. Our commercial teams manage ~300 contracts at any one time with a total value of £25BN. This huge scale means that we link closely into MOD and Government commercial networks and best practice via the GCO. Commercial is a major corporate function in Government The Government Commercial Function (GCF) People Standards for the Profession sets out the standards expected from commercial professionals within Government. The eight professional levels covered in this document supports our commercial staff who are responsible for ensuring that the Civil Service achieves excellence in all its commercial activity. Please refer to these standards to ensure that you fully understand the attributes for Government Commercial Professionals for each professional level. We may also make reference to these documents that have been published on Gov.UK: DIO Commercial Strategy : This strategy explains how the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), part of the Ministry of Defence, aims to transform the way it does business. The strategy has a focus on increasing supplier numbers, offering greater opportunities to small and medium-sized enterprises as well as to larger suppliers. The strategy also gives information on the types of opportunities available to prospective suppliers. DIO Procurement Pipeline : DIO spends around £3-billion each year buying infrastructure services in the UK and overseas. The Procurement Pipeline replaces the Procurement Plan and complements the DIO Commercial Strategy. It aims to inform industry of what DIO plans to buy on behalf of its Armed Forces customers. The pipeline is updated regularly to ensure that the latest information is available. Job Description: About the Defence Estate Optimisation Portfolio (DEOP) The Defence Estate Optimisation Portfolio (DEOP) is an ambitious portfolio of activity with the aim of rationalising the MOD estate within the UK over the next 20 years. This transformation is being conducted through interdependent projects and programmes, involving significant sized construction/infrastructure requirements across the UK, undertaking multiple unit/office and personnel/accommodation moves, leading to the subsequent release of MOD land for disposal and the investment of £4.3 billion in modern, greener and more sustainable facilities. DEOP seeks to challenge, innovate, transform and deliver advances in Estate sustainability and Net Zero performance embedding this ethos in all our procurements, and advancing our use of CCS frameworks. This is a once in a generation opportunity to transform the buildings and infrastructure to support all of our people in Defence within the UK. Summary of the Role You will: Hold a Commercial Delegation to make contractual commitments on behalf of the MOD, with all the accountability and authority to ensure that there are robust procurement strategies for all procurements, that all contractual commitments represent value for money and are affordable within agreed approvals. Contribute to delivering the agreed programme of procurements on time and to a high quality, engaging as necessary with customers, the delivery team and other enabling functions, the scrutiny community and decision makers. Play an active and effective role in meetings, as a representative of the Commercial Function. Have the potential to lead a team, building their confidence and commercial capability to drive performance and manage setbacks. Provide both decisive and educated leadership, facilitating the engagement and effectiveness of the commercial team. Successfully engage, lead, coach and inspire the team to reinforce the MOD and GCO leadership values. Deliver all required line management activities to ensure the team deliver their objectives Ensure that DIO Projects and programmes adhere to legal and regulatory requirements, contractual obligations and ethical considerations. Advance Government policy, including sustainability and social value, through all commercial relationships. Contributing to the improvement of commercial awareness and capability across the organisation to ensure best practice is applied through all phases of the commercial lifecycle. Deliver cash and efficiency savings to support the departments financial position, contributing to the maintenance of a category level savings pipeline, demonstrating delivery against forecast. Deliver end-to-end category management strategies ensuring appropriate routes to market are used to procure in the most time efficient way. 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. As a valued employee of the Government Commercial Organisation (GCO), you will have access to all the benefits the centre has to offer; including flexible working, generous benefits, Career Coaches, Mentors, L&D, a Commercial College, active talent management and, most importantly, access to commercial projects that will far exceed the scale and complexity on offer elsewhere in the UK. For existing Civil Servants: For full details of the impact on any move across the civil service on your existing terms and conditions, please read the candidate pack. Please note that any move across the Civil Service may have implications on your ability to continue to claim childcare vouchers. Key Responsibilities Delivery of Procurement Work effectively with senior staff in the supplier organisation and establishing appropriate governance and relationship arrangements. Lead and manage the end-to-end tendering process. Analyse options, managing trade-offs flowing from decisions and mitigating key risks. Delivery of Contract Management Lead on contract management for one or more of the organisation's most high-profile, complex and strategic contracts. Evaluate whether a contract is achieving a successful return on investment, in the light of 'value for money' considerations. Oversee the realisation of benefits achieved as a result of the performance management regime or change control, challenging non-delivery of benefits and escalate when required. Customer Be the point of contact for the customers across DEOP and FMC, and interface into the Commercial department with a focus on improvement to delivery, risk management, problem-solving and engagement to ensure that the customer requirements are met, providing expert commercial advice. Develop senior customer relationships and influence business strategies. Engage with stakeholders to understand their motivations and behaviours to influence decision-making. People Lead an overview of activity in accordance with DIO, CivHR and GCO guidance and policies. Support workforce planning for the portfolio to ensure the team is resourced to meet the customer demand, including talent management, succession planning and development plans. Contribute to the development, implementation and delivery of an engagement action plan in response to survey feedback to improve the working environment and experience for all stakeholders. Must have MCIPS Level 6 or be willing to work towards obtaining it within 1 year of taking up this position. Your application will be reviewed by a panel and should you be successful at sift we will invite you to attend a Virtual commercial Assessment and Development Centre (VADC). The panel will review results of the VADC and determine which candidates will go through to a subsequent final panel interview. Please note: Only candidates that achieve an A grade at ADC will be invited to interview for this role. Please be advised that the Virtual ADC is taking place on 12th June 2025 and will require a full day's attendance. If you are invited to attend a virtual ADC, but for any reason are unable to meet the date outlined then please get in touch with the team on commercialresourcinghub@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible. The ADC is booked and paid for in advance by departments, therefore it is only in certain circumstances we are able to accommodate alternative dates. For full details of our process, and a likely timeline, please read the attached candidate pack. Throughout our selection process, we will make decisions about your capability to do the job, based on evidence you provide against the Technical Skills (essential criteria) and your Job History (CV) that you will be asked to provide during the application process. Further help and advice on our application and selection process can be found at this web address https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/gcf-how-to-apply/ IMPORTANT: If you do not receive an acknowledgement of your application within 2 working days please contact: commercialresourcinghub@cabinetoffice.gov.uk Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.