Senior Manager - Home Affairs, Commercial

About the company: The company is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value the company’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, the company has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Home Affairs practice is looking for experienced Senior Managers to join the team. This role is focused on strengthening our Government Commercial capability within Home Affairs, helping clients improve how they procure, contract, manage suppliers and deliver value. Our Home Affairs team works at the heart of UK Government, partnering with clients across Policing, Defence, Justice, the Home Office and Arm’s Length Bodies to deliver lasting change for citizens across the UK. Commercial capability is critical to helping the public sector respond to major challenges, improve value for money, strengthen supplier performance and build more effective operating models. If you are excited by helping government clients solve complex commercial challenges and deliver meaningful public value, we would love to hear from you.

What you will be doing:

• Leading government commercial transformation work for Home Affairs and wider public sector clients, helping them improve how they procure, contract, manage suppliers and deliver value.
• Designing and improving commercial operating models, including governance, processes, decision rights, accountabilities, controls and ways of working.
• Advising clients on commercial efficiency opportunities, helping them identify where commercial functions, supplier arrangements or contracts can deliver better value for money.
• Bringing practical knowledge of government commercial regulations, procurement requirements, approval routes and governance into client delivery.
• Working alongside broader company teams to embed commercial expertise into transformation, operating model, digital, data, technology and change programmes.
• Building trusted relationships with senior government stakeholders, including commercial directors, operational leaders, finance teams, policy teams and delivery partners.
• Identifying and shaping new opportunities with Home Affairs and wider public sector clients, contributing to proposals, account development and the growth of the company’s government commercial capability.
• Leading and developing consultants within multi-disciplinary teams, providing direction, coaching and feedback while building the company’s internal commercial knowledge and methods.

Your skills and experience:

We are looking for someone with strong experience helping government or public sector organisations improve their commercial functions. This could include procurement, commercial operating models, supplier management, contract management, commercial efficiency and commercial transformation. Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience in some of the following:

• Experience delivering commercial, procurement or supplier-related transformation work in Home Affairs or wider public sector environments.
• Experience in consulting, within a government commercial function, or through a combination of both.
• Strong understanding of how government commercial functions operate, including procurement regulations, governance, approvals, controls and stakeholder dynamics.
• Experience of working in complex commercial environments, helping programmes to deliver transformation through procurement activity.
• Experience designing, assessing or improving commercial operating models, including structures, roles, processes, decision-making, capability and ways of working.
• Experience identifying and delivering commercial efficiencies, value for money opportunities, supplier performance improvements or contract management improvements.
• Experience working in complex, high-value, multi-stakeholder environments where commercial, operational, policy and delivery priorities need to be balanced.
• Exposure to Home Affairs or adjacent government areas such as policing, law enforcement, justice, defence, national security, the Home Office or central government.
• Experience leading client workstreams or teams, producing high-quality deliverables and turning commercial expertise into practical recommendations.
• Established network and experience leading business development, including shaping opportunities, contributing to proposals or developing client relationships.

What a career at the company will give you:

Putting People First. The company is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: All our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the company Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion: We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

Join us: All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed.