Commissioning Manager

Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 4, 2nd Floor, Gloucester

Salary: £48,226 - £51,356 per annum • Hours per Week: 37.00 • Contract Type: Permanent

About The Role

As a Commissioning Manager, you will play a key role in delivering the commissioning cycle: developing and managing programmes that ensure effective, efficient, and outcome-focused adult social care services. Working within a collaborative commissioning team, you will lead on a portfolio of projects, manage capacity across programmes, and drive innovation through data-led decision making. You will also support and deputise for senior leaders where required, ensuring continuity and strong leadership across the function.

A key focus of this role will be developing and maintaining strategic relationships with nursing and residential care providers across Gloucestershire. Working collaboratively with the provider market, you will help shape sustainable, high-quality services, support market development, and ensure commissioning activity responds effectively to current and future population needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver commissioning programmes and projects, including higher-risk and complex initiatives.
• Develop and oversee detailed programme and project plans, including resourcing and communications.
• Manage and allocate capacity across commissioning activities to maximise efficiency and impact.
• Line manage and develop commissioning staff, supporting workforce planning and capability building.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data, stakeholder feedback, and performance insights to shape service design and improvement.
• Build strong relationships with providers, partners, and stakeholders across multi-agency environments.
• Lead governance processes, including business case development, risk assessments, and approvals.
• Oversee contract monitoring for high-value and higher-risk services, ensuring quality and compliance.
• Act as a subject matter expert within the commissioning cycle and provide escalation support when required.

Requirements

• Significant experience in commissioning, including complex and high-risk projects.
• Experience managing programmes, budgets, and teams.
• Excellent programme and project management skills.
• Strong commercial awareness, including procurement and contract management.

Benefits

• Regular formal and informal support.
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
• Accredited post-qualified training opportunities, enabling you to develop your skills.
• Access to mandatory training and additional topical bi-annual workshops.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply).
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Annual leave up to 30.5 days after 5 years employment.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers.
• Cycle to work Scheme.

About Us

This is a great time to join Gloucestershire County Council, as Adult Social Care is on an exciting innovation journey, which focuses our approach into being more creative, strengths-based and person-centred, to ensure that we work together to ‘Make the Difference’ to our local communities.