Commissioning Manager

Gloucestershire County Council; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular support

Supervision and training opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Gloucestershire County Council is seeking a Commissioning Manager to lead adult social care commissioning programmes, shaping high-quality services and ensuring sustainable outcomes. You will manage a portfolio of projects, drive data-led decision making, and support governance and contract monitoring within a high-performing team.

The role requires extensive commissioning experience, strong programme management and commercial awareness, with hybrid working arrangements balancing office and

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Commissioning experience

Programme management

Budget management

Procurement & contracts

Job description

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

Are you an experienced commissioning professional ready to lead complex programmes that make a real difference? We are looking for a dynamic Commissioning Manager to join our Adult Social Care Commissioning team and help shape high-quality, sustainable services that deliver meaningful outcomes for our communities.

• Job Title: Commissioning Manager
• Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 4, 2nd Floor
• Salary: £48,226 - £51,356 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 25/08/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14550
• This post is not open to job share

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.

Key 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.

About You

You will be a confident and experienced commissioning professional with a passion for improving outcomes in adult social care. You will have:

• 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

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Read more about our values on our website.

If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role!

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.

Gloucestershire County Council provides the following rewards package in return for your hard work:

• 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&C's 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

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Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

Commissioning Manager Job Profile

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to the volume of applications received. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email [e-mail], as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.