Commercial Lead

Reporting to: Associate Director

Dept/Pillar: Transformation

Hours: 37 (potentially flexible)

Grade/Salary: From £51,721.00 (dependent on experience etc)

Contract Type: Permanent

Vetting Level: NPPV 3 & SC

Role overview 

Do you have a background in Project management and experience working with police forces or other blue light services. then this could be the role for you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of BlueLight Commercial leading critical
transformational change work.

You will play a pivotal role in ensuring BlueLight Commercial has the capability and capacity to deliver our strategy and transformation programme. The role will provide skilled and focused leadership in the change arena to deliver and embed our transformation strategy, building change maturity throughout the organisation.

You will engage with a variety of stakeholders to identify transformational change opportunities and to create a strong interest for collaborative working and an appetite to achieve excellence.

The work is diverse and requires someone that thrives when given autonomy to define, scope and lead cross several functional workstreams.

The position is an influential and challenging role which will involve working closely with the CEO, Strategic Leadership Team, Home Office, NPCC, and other key stakeholders to deliver against an ambitious strategy.

This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic team in a constantly evolving organisation.

My Team and the BlueLight Team

At BlueLight Commercial our ambition is to be the trusted partner and 'go to' commercial
service, working with blue light organisations to deliver value through commercial expertise and innovation, ensuring the responsible and sustainable use of public resources.

When you join BlueLight Commercial you will be part of a great ambition to transform together as a high performing team.

BlueLight Commercial is a home based, agile organisation that is passionate about development and believe that the most innovative ideas come from diverse teams with different backgrounds who can bring their own ideas and experience to help drive the organisation forwards. BlueLight Commercial is an equal opportunities employer.

My Responsibilities and accountabilities

• Lead on the translation, alignment and implementation of strategic priorities and initiatives (from definition through to implementation).
• Formulate a well-defined portfolio, working in collaboration with the strategic leadership team, ensuring visibility and accountability across the change portfolio (delivering to time, costs and quality).
• Build, enhance and sustain organizational capabilities/benefits, whilst fostering shared ownership and understanding of the key business implications.
• Support the development of clear cases for change, desired outcomes/measures, priorities, scope, roles, decision making.
• Develop and co-ordinate the transformation roadmap, handling risks/issues/ dependencies as they arise and keeping stakeholders focused on the agreed change outcomes and benefits.
• Lead on change management, business efficiency and service improvement. Providing research, developing solutions/products and proof of concepts for strategic business developments. Demonstrating foresight, conceptual capability and environmental market awareness.
• Implement new and innovative methodologies, taking the best from across Government and wider business world, to strengthen the approach to delivering efficiencies through organisation change. 
• Set clear approach to incentivise behaviors that support transformational change, identifying and implementing targeted interventions to change culture, behaviors and mindsets at all levels.
• Ensure the change framework, governance model and controls balance business risk and pace, reduce complexity, and ensures methodologies are fit for purpose, enhancing the organizations capability to deliver change.
• Contribute to building a high performing organisational culture based on excellence and continuous improvement, sharing best practice tools and methodologies that underpin successful transformation and culture change.
• Build on the ethos of collaboration and teamwork throughout the organisation, creating a culture where co-design of solutions and continuous improvements is seen as everyone’s responsibility. 
• Ensuring data and information is available to support to transformation activity and delivery, including development of templates, KPIs and dashboards.

Qualifications & Accreditations

You are someone who has attained:

• Strong academic record – degree level business discipline or relevant Change/ Transformation professional qualification.

• Strong track record of successful delivery of Change and/or Transformation strategies in complex organisations, delivering cultural, process and system wide improvement.
• Demonstrable evidence of consulting on strategy, identifying business outcomes and converting to realistic roadmaps, working with wider organisation.
• The ability to create and present a compelling vision and set clear direction, motivating others to work towards a common goal.
• Demonstrable evidence of building and leading functions and
  capabilities.

Skills

You are someone who is:

• Ability to influence Executive and Board level stakeholders.
• Ability to develop Change strategies for complex organisations.
• Ability to manage competing priorities effectively including budgets and resources.
• Effective Portfolio, programme and project management skills.
• Highly developed interpersonal, influencing, negotiating and communication skills.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in partnership and across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of working effectively within a politically sensitive environment.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to lead the transformation vision and overall direction of the organisation and to communicate this across the organisation and beyond.
• Ability to lead project of various complexity and see them through to completion.
• Strong customer focus with high consultative skills - Implement plans and manage standards so that stakeholder’s satisfaction is achieved both internally and externally.

Personal Qualities

You are:

• Resilience in challenging circumstances: ability to work under pressure, remaining calm but decisive.
• Analytically minded and the ability to assimilate and apply new techniques and knowledge quickly to deliver insights and solve problems.
• Strategic and analytical thinker, able to move seamlessly from high-level concepts to details and solutions without much guidance.
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and customer-service oriented.
• Open, receptive, and adaptable to change.
• Demonstrates integrity and a can-do attitude.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We foster a work environment that is inclusive as well as diverse, where our people can be themselves. We value every idea and perspective towards helping us to evolve and innovate.

What We Offer - Total Rewards Package

• Starting salary £51,721 p.a. (DOE dependent on experience)
• Quality equipment for successful remote working, laptop, mobile phone, monitor, chair & desk and a Welcome ‘kit box’
• 12% employer pension contribution
• Support for your development for your Role and future career development (a framework to achieve this)
• Pension salary sacrifice scheme
• Life insurance 4 x salary
• 28 days annual leave (rising on service)
• Birthday Leave (1 x extra day per year to be used in birthday month)
• Paid bank holiday leave
• Occupational sick pay
• Wellness – free vouchers for eye test and flu jab
• Employee Assistance Programme for health and wellbeing
• 1 x annual professional subscription
• Learning Management System – access to free training & e-learning (more than 80,000 learning resources)

CLOSING DATE: 27th October 2025

POTENTIAL INTERVIEWS: Week commencing 3rd November 2025

If you would like to be considered for a secondment, please contact the HR team HR@bluelight.police.uk in advance.

*Please let us know confidentially if you require any adjustments in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience, this can be prior to applying or when you apply.

“The legal bit”

The successful applicant will be subject to pre-employment checks including medical screening and vetting (carried out externally NPPV3* ) due to the nature of our business this is important. As standard you will need to satisfy:

• Employment eligibility check (right to work in the UK)

• Residency qualification (meaning you must have a 5 year 'checkable history' in the UK, ideally you have been and you are a resident in England or Wales for the last 3 years).

• Employment references (last 3 years or educational / personal reference where applicable)

*NPPV3: Vetting process | Warwickshire Police

This level of vetting grants the applicant to have unsupervised, unrestricted access to police premises and systems and could include those working in areas where the police roles have been identified as designated posts. NPPV3 allows access to classified police material or information up to SECRET and occasional access to TOP SECRET

Clearance at SC level, sits alongside NPPV3 allows applicants access to a higher level of secure information and systems.