In This Role You Will:

• Deliver and support procurement projects, contract management activities and supplier relationships across the full commercial lifecycle.
• Provide commercial advice and guidance to customers and stakeholders, helping them navigate commercial policies, procedures and governance requirements.
• Build strong relationships with operational teams, understanding their needs and developing effective commercial solutions.
• Contribute to business improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, increase efficiency and share best practice.
• Keep up to date with commercial legislation, market developments and government best practice to ensure informed and compliant decision-making.
• Support the development and implementation of commercial policies, processes and category strategies.
• Help ensure contracts deliver value for money, manage risks effectively and maximise wider social, environmental and sustainability benefits.
• Support colleagues and customers through training, coaching and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Use eSourcing and contract management systems to manage commercial activity effectively and deliver outcomes to agreed quality, cost and timescale expectations.
• Develop your market knowledge and commercial expertise, contributing to category and sub-category planning activities.

What You'll Gain

These roles offer exposure to a diverse range of commercial activities and stakeholders, providing an excellent platform for building a career within the Government Commercial Function. You will join a supportive and collaborative team committed to developing people, delivering high-quality commercial outcomes and making a real difference across the Defra Group.

For The Fleet HEO Vacancy:

In the Fleet role, you will support the procurement and management of vehicle, fleet and transport-related services that enable operational teams across the Defra Group to deliver their essential work. You'll help shape commercial solutions that support sustainability objectives, operational resilience and value for money.

For The Corporate Solutions HEO Vacancy:

In the Corporate Solutions role, you will support a broad portfolio of common goods and services, including travel, office supplies and workplace services. You'll work with customers across the organisation to deliver commercial solutions that keep colleagues equipped, connected and able to deliver critical public services.

Person Specification

We're Looking For Enthusiastic And Motivated Individuals Who Enjoy Building Relationships, Solving Problems And Delivering Great Outcomes For Customers. Whether You're Already Working In a Commercial Environment Or Have Developed Transferable Skills Elsewhere, We'd Love To Hear From You If You Can Demonstrate:

Essential Criteria

• Confidence in building relationships with a wide range of stakeholders and influencing decisions through clear, evidence-based advice.
• Experience of working in a structured and accountable environment, managing competing priorities and delivering quality outcomes to agreed timescales.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly and tailor your approach to different audiences.
• A proactive and organised approach, with the ability to take ownership of work and deliver at pace.
• Good judgement and decision-making skills, with the confidence to identify issues, assess risks and recommend solutions.
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of a team whilst managing tasks independently.
• An interest in developing commercial knowledge and applying it to deliver real-world business outcomes.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Managing a Quality Service
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Technical Skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Experience of analysing information and applying judgement to recommend solutions, balancing customer requirements, risk, governance and value for money.

Salary

Alongside your salary of £35,895, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs contributes £10,398 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Application

As part of the application process, you will be required to submit:

• A CV
• A 500-word Personal Statement demonstrating how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the role
• A 250-word statement for each of the following behaviours:
  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Working Together

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Location

As part of the pre-employment process for this post, successful candidate(s) will be able to agree a contractual workplace from those locations listed in this advert. The agreed contractual workplace is then the substantive and permanent place of work for the successful candidate(s).

Where the location is ‘National’ the successful appointee should discuss and agree an appropriate contractual location in line with both Defra’s location policy and site capacity, prior to proceeding with pre-employment processes.

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Ability, Experience and Technical skills.

Contact Point for Applicants

Job Contact:

Name: Katy Reed
Email: katy.reed@defra.gov.uk
Telephone: 07767691614

Recruitment Team

Email: defrarecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk