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Commercial Officer, Ministry of Defence, up to £386/day

Employer
Quast Ltd
Location
Andover, Hampshire
Salary
Up to £386/day
Closing date
19 Jul 2019

Job Details

The Ministry of Defence are seeking a Commercial Officer to join them in Andover.

Team: Ministry of Defence|MOD Core|Land Force|PERS and SP COMD|DG Pers

Initial contracts will run for 6 months and offer a rate up to £386/day.

IR35 STATUS: Inside IR35. This engagement has been assessed by the public body as Inside IR35 legislation. Candidates would be required to operate through an umbrella company on this engagement.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 19/07/2019 at 14:00

This role requires Active SC (Security Check) clearance. Applicants require active SC clearance or the willingness to go through clearance before starting on site. Candidates with current clearance will be preferred.

The Role

The CASTLE Programme team will modernise career pathways, learning and development interventions, and talent management systems to deliver an Army of motivated, capable and resourceful professionals. The Commercial Support will be responsible for commercial practices within programme CASTLE and Personnel Directorate Change Team and is key to driving the commercial work, underpinning CASTLE.

This post will be part of the CASTLE PMO which will deliver the commercial expertise and overarching P3M framework for the CASTLE programme including; delivery of the reporting, assurance and planning requirements of the Army Portfolio Office.  The posts will cover management of the commercial processes and standards working with Army Commercial to ensure all commercial direction is followed.

Main Responsibilities

  • Commercial practices: Supporting the development and implementation of robust commercial practices for the projects including the products and activities required as part of Army commercial policy.
  • Business Cases: Development of Business Cases in line with all approvals processes to ensure timely approval and transition to commercial activity.
  • Commercial Monitoring, Review & Reporting: including working with activity leads to monitor and understand the progress and status of the programmes’ commercial activity and report this accurately to decision makers; identifying any key risks or barriers to delivery of commercial activity.
  • Commercial Change Control: the postholder will maintain the project history and operate the change control process, ensuring that changes in commercial scope, time, cost or quality are identified and a log of decisions is maintained.
  • Financial: the post holder will track commercial activity against current and future control totals in conjunction with D Pers fin to ensure financial propriety.
  • Other duties in support of the programme and projects as required.
  • Commercial Officer will be helping with commercial and financial, with support of PMO to ensure we get process in place.

Skills and Experience

  • Must have experience of public sector/MoD
  • Commercial experience
  • Need experience in financial work
  • Experience with learning interventions – numerous projects.

Candidate Eligibility

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, this role will not offer Visa sponsorship. Tier 2 – General visas are cannot be accepted. This role requires that candidates be willing to undergo BPSS (DS) Baseline Personnel Security Standard (with a Disclosure Scotland).

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Company

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Company info
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Telephone
+441727617280
Location
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