Commissioning Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Use your experience and knowledge in providing sound expertise, advice, and information to a range of internal customers, external stakeholders, councillors, senior managers, and other departments as necessary.

Use your experience and knowledge in providing sound expertise around developing processes to ensure a successful implementation.

Create tools to ensure successful monitoring or KPI’s.

Assist with contract implementation and support the service manager in innovation opportunities around the new model.

Support the team flexibly to respond to different work pressures, including picking up new and different areas of work as necessary.

Requirements:

A degree or professional qualification in social care, health care, public health, housing, business studies, a relevant subject OR comparable experience gained in the workplace.

Experience working at a senior level in a commissioning role in a social care, housing, health or public health environment, which includes the knowledge of relevant legislation, including Care Act market shaping responsibilities and EU procurement rules.

Experience developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies / business plans, including needs assessment and market analysis, preferably related to social care, health, public health and housing services and of contract management and performance appraisal.

An understanding of children’s and adult social care, housing, health and public health and their underpinning values, standards and legislative framework, including an understanding of the personalisation agenda.