Procurement and Improvement Manager

Do you have experience of the public sector procurement processes, ensuring we are professional, getting value for money, constantly improving, and meeting our legal obligations? If so, we’d love to hear from you! 

About the Team

The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) team sits within HM Treasury, has been operational since March 2016 and in its first six years quickly established itself as a world-leader in financial sanctions, a key area of financial, foreign, and national security policy. It remains front and centre of an unprecedented financial sanctions response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

HM Treasury implements financial sanctions in the UK, and OFSI fulfils this role on its behalf. It leads on the implementation of UN and UK financial sanctions and domestic terrorist asset freezing, providing a high-quality service to the private and charitable sectors, and guidance to help them follow the law. It works closely with law enforcement, intelligence agencies and strategic policy colleagues across Whitehall and beyond to help ensure that financial sanctions are accurately understood, implemented, and enforced. OFSI has important partner relationships in the regulated financial services sector, the primary implementers of financial sanctions, and is an integral part of the sanctions community worldwide.

About the Job

In this role, you will oversee all of OFSI’s procurements, contracts and procurement processes. Without successful and good value procurements, especially of our case management systems, OFSI cannot meet our objectives. This role also covers improvements to our IT systems – sourcing customer needs, assessing current provision and working with IT experts to improve our systems. 

Key accountabilities include :

·      Leading the centre of expertise for procurement and improvement in OFSI – take a collaborative approach to upskill and support OSFI colleagues, being a reliable and informed source of support, working closely with HMT’s central procurement teams.

·      Overseeing all of OFSI’s procurements and procurement processes – help branches identify the support they need, and procure that support for them. Hold OFSI leads to account for identifying and pursuing procurements which are in-line with OFSI’s objectives and minimise duplication. Help leads identify whether contract renewal or a re-tender is the right approach for them and then what approach to take, in-line with our legal obligations and Civil Service best practice.

·      Managing the contract renewal of OFSI systems – once/if it is determined that renewal is the right option, work with HMT central procurement team and branches across OFSI to ensure renewal is smooth and budget is accounted for.

·      Leading on critical OFSI IT improvement projects, including on Economic Deterrence Initiative projects/spend and case management systems renewals/improvement, as well as coordinating work with the HMT IT function (TBS) and relevant 3rd party contractors to aid continuous service improvements and issues resolution. This will include extensive stakeholder management working closely with and representing the team with other OFSI branches, HMT teams, other government departments and international partners (in certain projects) to articulate the requirements of the team and ensure systems deliver on OFSI’s internal and external needs.

About You

You will work closely with HM Treasury’s corporate centre to pool expertise and work together to get the best outcomes for OFSI, HM Treasury and the taxpayer. You will need strong coordination and delivery skills and be prepared to represent both OFSI and the branch with external stakeholders, both domestically and internationally.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

·      25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month

·      Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)

·      Generous parental and adoption leave packages

·      Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27%

·      Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances

·      A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form