The Supplier Manager role is responsible for ensuring that external contracts with suppliers meet the needs of the Business to deliver digital change and services. You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end supplier management process working closely with Commercial Leads in the procurement of commercial contracts, dealing with any associated queries. You will be responsible for financial tracking management ensuring it aligns with contractual spend. Resolve financial queries and liaise with Suppliers and Business areas when necessary, mitigating any issues / highlight overspends. Your key responsibilities will include, but not limited to: Working with key stakeholders to document technical and non-technical requirements to assist with procurement activities, ensuring affordability and internal governance is followed. Ownership of resource and non-resource Cost Models for your portfolio / category, providing financial management and reporting. Ensuring financial tracking aligns with contractual spend. Resolve financial queries and liaise with Suppliers and Project leads, where necessary. Support Lead Supplier Manager, identify and initiate delivery of procurement plans and strategies. Ensuring stakeholder requirements are met and value for money is achieved. Tracking all renewals to prevent any loss to service. Liaising with internal Stakeholders and Suppliers to understand requirements. Build effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders acting as an escalation point for any issues that cannot be resolved. Implement strategies to increase performance and act as escalation point for any complex or unresolved issues. Maintain and actively review contract end dates in advance to prompt the business and see if renewal is required. Person specification See selection process section for further details. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Natalie.selby1dwp.gov.uk. Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Experience in gathering requirements for supplier engagements and collaborating with Commercial Directorate to place relevant contracts. Ensuring the contract delivers value for money. Benefits Alongside your salary of 37,497, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 10,862 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. Generous annual leave at least 23 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. Salary Information New entrants to the Civil Service will join on band minimum. Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater. Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills. Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of four parts: 1. A Personal Details application form. 2. Your employment history detailing your responsibilities, skills, accomplishments, qualifications and relevant training. This will be used to provide context to your personal statement. Please copy this information into the box field provided. 3. Personal statement up to 750 words. When giving details in your personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with the essential criteria below: Experience in building and maintaining strong working relationships with colleagues, Senior Managers and stakeholders. Experience of working with financial management information, monitoring budgets and an understanding of financial forecasts. Evidence of delivering to deadlines in a fast paced and ever-changing environment with conflicting priorities. Evidence of strong communication and engagement skills with the ability to negotiate favourable outcomes for the Business and Department. 4. Technical statement (up to 250 words). Experience in gathering requirements for supplier engagements and collaborating with Commercial Directorate to place relevant contracts. Ensuring the contract delivers value for money. An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, andtechnical statementto assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria above. You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your CV and Personal Statement. Sift dates to be confirmed. For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. Important Information You will be asked to complete your employment history any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form. Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered. If your employment history, personal statement or technical statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn. Stage 2: Interview If youre successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria and technical statement. Interviews will take place from mid-January 2025. Interview dates to be confirmed. Furher information: Find out more about Working for DWP A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grscabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the Reasonable Adjustments section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional. For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. 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