Contracts and Supply Chain Manager
Department for Culture Media & Sport (DCMS), Central London, UK to £495 per day
INSIDE IR35.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is looking to strengthen its commercial capability and have created an opportunity for an experienced Contract and Supply Chain professional to join the Commercial Team as a Contract and Supply Chain Manager. This new post will work within an integrated commercial functional team reporting to the Head of Commercial on the Contract Management and Supply Chain status for the Department.
The role has two key areas of focus. Contract Management and Supply Chain Management. The role will provide guidance, support and assurance to contract managers (predominantly comprising of non specialist contract managers) within the various Department Teams, the Commercial representatives of ALBs and the Commercial Business Partners working across all Department Teams. The Role will also include maturing the holistic understanding of the Departments supply chain and developing and implementing Key supplier strategies and plans in managing supply chain risk.
• Be the Lead Contract and Supply Chain Manager for the DCMS Commercial Team on all its undertakings;
• Oversee the management of core central contracts, including personnel supply, travel, and GPC
• Lead the creation and implementation of Contract Management processes, tool kit and assurance activities on all contracts matters for the DCMS commercial team working in conjunction with the Commercial Business Partners across all Business Areas along with the assurance of commercial processes, procedures, guidance and templates;
• Report on the supply chain status of the department.
• Lead the creation and implementation of key supplier management strategies and plans.
• Lead as the key supply chain representative of all supply chain issues and matters
• Report direct to the Head of Commercial and, on rare occasions, the Finance & Commercial Director (on Contract and Supply Chain matters) as required both internally and externally;
• Support the Head of Commercial in providing commercial assurance to the Commercial Director, Director of Finance & Commercial and the Accounting Officer as a key adviser of relevant (investment and corporate) committees and programme boards to ensure that commercial strategies are aligned with the department’s and wider Government policy;
• Work closely with the Head of Procurement on delivering SME activities.
• Engage and influence stakeholders across the department and wider NDPB community so that they support the commercial and contract management strategies and visibly commit to its successful implementation;
• Provide professional contract, supply chain and commercial advice and assist the Head of Commercial to provide a framework that supports and enables the Departments Contract Managers to ensure the department meets any and all central government requirements, achieve best value and effectively manage risk for third-party goods and services;
• Support the Head of Commercial in developing contract management and commercial capability within the department through implementation of commercial reform, contract and commercial training;
• Support the implementation of commercial reform in DCMS including representing DCMS through engagement with the Government Commercial Community where appropriate;
• Lead risk mitigation planning to ensure risks are appropriately managed, mitigated or escalated.
• Lead Contract Management and Supply Chain reporting across the Department.
• Ensure a relentless focus on contract management, in line with governance and contractual terms, including certification and authorisation of payments; assessment and authorisation of variations; conflict avoidance; dispute resolution; claims settlement; evaluation of supplier performance and application of contractual remedies.
• Lead contract and supplier risk management and mitigation to ensure risks are appropriately managed, mitigated or escalated.
Digital Dev Ops Senior
Department for Transport (DFT), Bristol, UK to £550 per day
INSIDE IR35.
The DVSA Infrastructure team has a number of projects in flight at the moment, the successful candidate will be expected to help with the delivery of these projects. Work may include one or more of the following projects:
• Networks – DVSA have updated LANs in most of our major sites and have now progressed to updating the LANs at our smaller offices, including the introduction of Wi-Fi at these sites. The role will include configuration and set-up of pilot/alpha sites as well as working with selected partners to test and manage the roll-out across the wider estate.
• Mobile Phones – As part of a change of carrier replacement SIMS will be rolled out across all mobile users. The roll-out will be performed by the Deployment team with the Infrastructure team providing support where required. The successful candidate maybe called upon to offer technical assistance, especially when rolling out replacement SIMS to laptop devices which will require configuration changes.
• Cloud Transformation – We are currently in the Alpha phase of an ambitious project to migrate our core infrastructure to the cloud and to roll out a new Windows 10 based end user device. Depending on skill-set the successful candidate will be involved in application packaging, InTune configuration, server migrations, Windows 10 build and device roll-out.
Key Tasks
Supplier Management 40%
• Responsible for leading the delivery and maintenance of effective cloud services, to ensure the optimal service is available to end users through sound supplier choice and management.
• Ensure Proactive monitoring is in place and fit for purpose.
• Ensuring the balance between Cost, Performance and resilience is correctly managed and appropriately applied.
Platform Delivery 40%
• Develop a plan to take components of cloud delivery in house and grow DVSA’s in-house cloud delivery capability and execute the delivery
• Oversee day to day management of the DVSA's cloud services, ensuring adherence to SLA’s and appropriate legislation.
• Identifying and implementing functional, performance and quality improvements to cloud services.
• Ensure that a corporate knowledgebase of expertise in cloud services is created and maintained.
• Provide support and guidance to Corporate Systems and the Digital Team to ensure appropriate use of the cloud platform.
• Work with the release teams, Service Management and the SIAM to ensure SLA’s are met.
• Ensure Business Continuity and DR plans are in place for the cloud services and the plans are appropriately updated and tested.
Future Planning and Innovation 20%
• Champion improvements to deliver new and updated cloud services, according to the needs of the business.
• Maintain an oversight of and insight into the evolving cloud landscape through attendance in steering groups and supplier events.
• Work with Architecture on agreeing new design patterns and their move into operation.
• Share knowledge on Cloud computing a
Principal Consultant / Technical Director – Social and Environmental Economics. (Manchester)
Anglo Technical Recruitment, UK from £45,000 to £55,000 per year
Our client is one of UK’s leading independent infrastructure and property consultancies, specialising in environment, planning and sustainability. They are in the market for a principal consultant / technical director – social and environmental economics for their Manchester offices.
About the role:
We are looking for an experienced consultant to help us build upon recent successes and to lead us into new areas of work within this service sector. You may have a specialism in environmental economics, social value and social return on investment engagement, project appraisal and funding, and or community engagement / stakeholder consultation.
You may work in the property sector or within major infrastructure, or across both.
Whatever the flavour of your experience is, we are looking for you to take a lead in developing propositions with established networks within your specialist area.
What we’re looking for?
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated consultant who will be part of our communities and sustainability team which currently has a focus on socio-economic and health impact assessment as well as wider strategic consulting around social infrastructure, social value and environmental economics.
The successful candidate will:
Have an extensive working foundation in the fields
of one or more of the following:
o social infrastructure appraisal and delivery;
o economic development (e.g. economic appraisal/modelling, economic impact assessment and the use of financial or business case modelling techniques);
o environmental economics; and / or stakeholder engagement.
Have a demonstrable track record in bespoke strategy development for high profile clients (public and private), delivering tangible results.
Understand the challenges facing urban environments and the value of providing an
integrated offer including economics, planning and technical infrastructure expertise.
Contribute to the activities of the wider team, by directing and managing the delivery of socioeconomic and health impact assessments.
Be prepared to promote Temple’s services through publications and conference attendance, and to contribute to industry debate both internally and within wider professional circles.
Have demonstrable bid preparation and business development experience – be a proven work winner.
Be a member of an appropriate institute such as the Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA) and / or the Institute of Economic Development.
