Job Description

How you'll make a difference:

As the 'go-to' expert in procurement and contract management in the department, you will provide advice to commissioning colleagues for Adult Social Care, Integrated Children's Services, Housing, Public Health and provider organisations to meet our strategic commitments.

Through building strong partnerships and working collaboratively, you will support the development of the care provider market in South Gloucestershire to deliver department-wide commissioning priorities.


What you will be doing:
On a daily basis, you will monitor compliance with procurement legislation, council procurement rules, governance requirements and contract management processes across the wider Partnerships and Commissioning Unit and offer advice and support to colleagues. You will offer support to commissioners within the Adult Commissioning team, Housing and Public Health to manage their contracts and assist procurements and joint commissioning arrangements across Health and Social Care and Public Health. Working collaboratively, you will provide sound expertise, advice and information to a range of senior customers throughout the council and research and analyse opportunities for innovation and establish new and efficient ways of working, ensuring that council activity is lawful. You will have a small portfolio of social care related contracts to procure and manage and will work closely with suppliers and partners to negotiate and manage projects,ensuring that business needs, service standards and budget requirements are met. Leading our approach to market development and service redesign, you will focus on sustainability, quality, health integration, coproduction and achieving outcomes within the available resources. Supporting the team, you will assist them flexibly to respond to different work pressures including picking up new and different areas of work as necessary. You may manage a small team of Commissioning Officers to support your work.

What we need from you:
It is essential that you to have a degree or professional qualification in social care, health care, public health, housing or business studies or other relevant subject or comparable experience gained in the workplace. You will have a minimum CIPS level 4 qualification, or significant experience of procurement in the workplace. It is highly desirable that you have experience at a senior level of working in a commissioning role in a social care, housing, health or public health environment. Due to the nature of this position, you will have knowledge of relevant legislation, including Care Act market shaping responsibilities as well as a good working knowledge of Procurement Regulation PCR 2015, Procurement Act 2023 and the Provider Selection Regime. We require you to have experience of developing and delivering creative and innovative commissioning strategies or 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. You must have an understanding of children's and adult social care, housing, health and public health and their underpinning values, standards and legislative framework.

What you need to know:
This is a hybrid role meaning that you can work remotely or in our offices.

Interviews anticipated week commencing 6th October 2025.

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:
We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that

work/life balance

. We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our

training and development

offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work. As part of our

benefits package

, you will receive

generous annual leave

(pro rata), employee

wellbeing support

and you will have access to a range of

staff discounts

, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. We recognise that our

diverse team

of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.


Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses. We're providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.


We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We're making a difference, be part of it!

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Commissioning Manager