Commercial Project Manager

On behalf of Government Commercial Agency, we are looking for a Commercial Project Manager (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract . This is a hybrid working role (two days per week office based - Liverpool, Norwich, Newport or Birmingham).

Government Commercial Agency (GCA) is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK.

As a trading fund and executive agency of the Cabinet Office, we implement procurement policy on behalf of the government.

We use the collective buying power of our customers and our commercial expertise to help public sector organisations achieve value for money and provide great outcomes for taxpayers.

Job Purpose:

As part of the Government Commercial Agency's remit to drive commercial excellence and strategic alignment across government through the newly established Strategic Category Forum process, the GCA is seeking a Commercial Project Manager .

This role will coordinate the category planning process on behalf of the GCA across multiple Government category departments, ensuring centralised reporting, consistent analytical frameworks, and deep market data insights to support key strategic objectives .

As a Commercial Project Manager , your main responsibilities will be:

- Agile and Lean practices: you can compare and select the most appropriate delivery methods and processes, recognise and adapt when something doesn't work. You encourage experimentation and reflective practice to improve ways of working. You can help teams to measure, evaluate and visualise outcomes (Relevant skill level: Practitioner).
- Commercial management : you can act as a point of contact for contracted suppliers, understanding the relevant processes and know how and when third parties should be brought into digital and data projects. (Relevant skill level: Working)
- Communicating between the technical and non-technical: you can listen to and interpret the needs of technical and non-technical stakeholders and manage their expectations. You can manage active and reactive communication and support or host difficult conversations within a team and diverse senior stakeholders. (relevant skill level Practitioner)
- Financial management : You can balance cost vs value, consider the impact of users, monitor cost and budget and report on financial delivery. You know when and how to escalate issues (relevant skill level Working)
- Lifecycle Management : You can manage the delivery of products and services that add value through the different phases of the lifecycle. You can identify if the product or service should move to the next phase and how to do this. You will ensure the product of service is developed in line with the appropriate service standards and use new information to adapt approaches to life cycle management (Relevant skill level working)
- Maintaining delivery momentum: You can facilitate the delivery flow of the team, managing pace and tempo and actively address internal and external risks, issues and dependencies including where the ownership sits outside the team. (Relevant skill level Practitioner)
- Making a process work: you can identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and unnecessarily complicated. You can add value and coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes and guide teams through the implementation of a new process. (Relevant skill level expert )
- Planning: You can understand the environment and prioritise the most important or high value tasks, use data to inform planning and manage complex internal and external dependencies. You can provide delivery confidence by removing blockers or impediments that affect plans and can develop a plan for difficult situations. You can also ensure that teams plan appropriately for their capacity. (Relevant skill level Practitioner)
- Team dynamics and collaboration: You can effectively bring people together to form a motivated team, helping to create the right environment for the team to work in and can empower them to deliver. You recognise and deal with issues and help to create the best team makeup depending on the situation. (Relevant skill level Working)

Essential:

- Proven experience within Public or Private Sector in delivering small digital projects or individual work streams
- Demonstrable knowledge of working in similar sector within a commercial, fast pace, multi-site environment
- Demonstrable knowledge of agile delivery techniques

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

At GCA, we actively support, promote, and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers, and customers. GCA is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. GCA believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, GCA encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates . Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant / Commitment

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, GCA welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".