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Closing date: 11:55pm, 17 February 2025
Salary: The starting salary is £38,926, which includes allowances totalling £2,928. The salary is broken down as £35,998 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £38,523. There is also a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000
Recruitment code: Oleeo 18527
Location: Kilburn
The Met's Commercial function are responsible for delivering end-to-end commercial lifecycle management and supporting the wider business in working with third parties.
The Met spends about £800 million each year on a diverse range of goods and services, and we aim to procure them in the most cost effective and compliant way, while satisfying often urgent operational needs. We proactively manage thirty large complex and operationally critical outsourced service contracts, to ensure that we receive the quality services we are paying for and achieve value for money through the entire life of the contract.
The Met's Commercial function are in the middle of a large-scale transformation, working to deliver the following strategic aims:
This role is an integral part of Commercial Services. The Met's Commercial function has six pillars which have overall accountability for activity covering the commercial life cycle, as well as relevant business partnering responsibilities across the wider business. This is an exciting and varied role, which will give you the change to support all aspects of the commercial life cycle within Met.
The role will enable you to develop your skills, experience and knowledge of business, commercial and procurement principles, processes and practices. It will also provide training opportunities for your continued professional development.
This role supports all aspects of category, sourcing and contract management within the Covert pillar, which has responsibility for supporting the Met in specialist operational technology and services. It directly support policing operations, providing commercial advice to the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) and supporting the National Counter Drones team.
Primarily, your activity and support will be to sourcing, procurement and contract management teams and staff, working across the life cycle to give strategic advice on major programmes and helping to define the 'needs' on business-as-usual (BAU) requirements, through the contracting process and onto commercial contract management.
You will contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the Met, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor. You will also support development of relationships with Met’s key and strategic suppliers, driving value-for-money and risk management excellence across the category.
You will provide essential commercial support to senior commercial staff within the Commercial team and the wider business, working on specific tasks within the Covert Policing category.
Your core duties will include, but are not limited to:
This post requires access to the most sensitive intelligence material on a daily basis. Applicants must hold or be prepared to undergo National Security Vetting (NSV) Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) level before taking up the post; with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV) once in post, if required.
Additionally, this material is of particular sensitivity to the UK and its distribution must be restricted to UK nationals. In approved circumstances dual nationals (of which one element is British) may also be granted access. However, in the event that potential conflicts of interest cannot be managed the post holder will not be able to see the intelligence material and will not be able to perform their duties.
For the purpose of safeguarding national security and in line with Cabinet Office Policy, supported by Section 82(2) to (4) of the Police Reform Act (2002), applicants who do not hold or acquire Security Check (enhanced) (SC(e)) OR Developed Vetting (DV) clearance and meet the nationality requirements cannot be offered the post.