Commercial management
Commercial management involves exploring commercial opportunities whilst complying with the regulations on how we conduct and manage both internal and third party relationships.
Levels
- 1. Awareness
This skill level is currently not defined.
- 2. Working
You can:
- act as the point of contact for contracted suppliers
- understand appropriate internal contacts and processes within a government department
- understand how and when third parties should be brought into digital, data and technology projects
- 3. Practitioner
You can:
- take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers
- identify appropriate contractual frameworks and identify appropriate suppliers
- negotiate with contracted suppliers
- get good value out of contracts and suppliers
- 4. Expert
You can:
- act as the escalation point and resolve large or high risk commercial management issues
- coach others in appropriate commercial management
Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.
Closest ESCO skills
Contains ESCO v1.2.1 data (https://esco.ec.europa.eu/). © European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
Role levels that expect this skill
| Role level | Role | Band | Expected level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category manager (digital and technology) | Category manager | 8a | Practitioner |
| Senior category manager | Category manager | 8b | Expert |
| Head of category | Category manager | 8c | Expert |
| Contract manager | Contract manager | 7 | Working |
| Senior contract manager | Contract manager | 8a | Practitioner |
| Lead contract manager | Contract manager | 8b | Expert |
| Associate delivery manager | Delivery manager | 5 | Working |
| Delivery manager | Delivery manager | 7 | Working |
| Senior delivery manager | Delivery manager | 8a | Practitioner |
| Head of delivery management | Delivery manager | 8c | Expert |
| Director of finance | Head of finance | 9 | Practitioner |
| Head of procurement | Head of procurement | 8c | Expert |
| Head of commercial | Head of procurement | 8d | Expert |
| Director of procurement and commercial | Head of procurement | 9 | Expert |
| Finance business partner | Management accountant | 8a | Working |
| Payroll manager | Payroll officer | 6 | Working |
| Programme delivery manager | Programme delivery manager | 8b | Expert |
| Senior programme delivery manager | Programme delivery manager | 8c | Expert |
| Senior project manager | Project manager | 7 | Working |
| Lead project manager | Project manager | 8a | Practitioner |
| Head of test | Test manager | 8c | Working |