Commissioning and Contracts Manager

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to join our committed and talented Commissioning and Contracts Team, within Adult Social Care, as a Commissioning and Contracts Manager. This will be a challenging but rewarding role for the right individual with a genuine commitment to improve outcomes for people within North Northamptonshire.

You will play a key role in leading commissioning and contracting work on behalf of Adult Social Care in North Northamptonshire, as well as developing and implementing our strategic commissioning intentions. Responsibilities include engaging with stakeholders, analysing current and future need, developing and commissioning services, contracting, shaping and sustaining the market.

This role will suit you if you:

• Enjoy a challenge
• Can work across multiple portfolios
• Are able to effectively manage competing deadlines and changing priorities
• Have substantial experience in commissioning and/or contracting (ideally both)
• Are able to bring ideas and solutions to the challenges in the social care market
• Can confidently manage project teams and projects to time and financial targets

What will you be doing?

The post holder will:

• Lead multiple projects and project teams of internal and external stakeholders
• Work collaboratively across the system and with local people
• Compile and present comprehensive governance reports
• Manage contractual arrangements throughout the contract lifecyle, including compiling terms as well as mobilising, varying, novating and terminating contracts
• Act as a point of contact for contract-related issues, and widen understanding and awareness amongst stakeholders of both commissioning and contracting
• Practice intelligence-led commissioning, using sound data and evidence

About you

The right candidate will:

• Be able to work autonomously with minimal supervision
• Be an effective team member, supporting colleagues when needed
• Have excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Have good attention to detail, particularly in reviewing legal documents
• Be familiar with a range of information sources and research methodologies, including the analysis of complex demographic and demand led trends
• Have excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with a diverse range of individuals and groups
• Understand the benefits of co-production and working in this way
• Have financial analysis and risk management capabilities
• Understand relevant regulatory and legal requirements

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)