Description
This is an important time to join the Defence Nuclear Organisation (DNO) within the Ministry of Defence (MOD). You will be at the heart of critical defence issues, delivering against one of the Department’s top priorities.
The role will include leading commercial activity across supply chain resilience and supplier fragility, using evidence and insight to assess exposure, mobilise mitigations, and coordinate timely interventions with delivery teams and partners.
You’ll help shift the enterprise from a reactive posture to a more proactive, intelligence-led approach. Alongside this, you will manage the customer sponsor role for sponsored organisations,helping to provide a clearer demand signal, supporting cross-MOD business development, and ensuring robust governance and value-for-money oversight where the Department has a sponsor/ownership interest.
The successful candidate will:
- Become an active participating member of DNO Commercial’s Senior Management Team.
- Lead an intelligence-led approach to identifying and mitigating Commercial and supply chain risk, drawing on enterprise-level products and insights.
- Drive improved visibility and mapping of supply chains, ensuring insights are usable for decision-making and interventions.
- Support the formation and running of enterprise, departmental and cross-government case groups.
- Build strong working relationships across MOD and wider Government to share intelligence and coordinate actions on shared supply chain concerns.
- Lead the customer relationship for sponsored organisations to help them become “best-for-enterprise” suppliers.
- Build commercial capability across the DNE Commercial function.
- Demonstrate and utilise a sound working knowledge of Intellectual Property Rights and the Procurement Act 2023.
Desirable skills include:
- Working knowledge of Single Source Contracting Regulations.
- Awareness of corporate structure and governance.
The successful candidate will be expected to:
- Operate effectively in a high-pressure national security environment and deliver against the UK’s most critical defence priorities.
- Build senior level credibility, with demonstrated effectiveness engaging at Board, Permanent Secretary, and Ministerial levels.
- Assess complex commercial and supply chain risks, weighing evidence from multiple sources and making proportionate recommendations.
- Act as a credible commercial practitioner who can lead cross-functional activity, drive outcomes, and operate effectively with senior stakeholders.
- Work with industry stakeholders with an understanding of the wider national security context relevant to the programme.
- Show data-to-decision capability – comfortable turning imperfect information into structured assessments.
- Manage competing priorities, land actions at pace, and keep interventions moving through governance and reporting routes.
Benefits include flexible working, generous benefits, Career Coaches, Mentors, L&D, a Commercial College, active talent management, and access to commercial projects.
The role requires CIPS or working towards accreditation within two years of appointment, plus an additional commitment to additional professional development as required.
This position will require individuals to hold DV or be willing to undergo the process of obtaining it before an appointment is made.