Job Description

Commissioning Manager | 9824 | permanent contract | 37 hours per week | £50,166 to £54,277 per annum | Grade L | County Hall, Norwich

This is an exciting opportunity to come and join the Transformation, Partnerships and Place team in the Central Area covering Norwich and South Norfolk within Adult Social Care.

We are looking for a Commissioning manager to join us in:

• Leading and Implementing transformation through working in a collaborative way with Partners, including working on significant joint projects and workstreams and supporting large scale programmes as part of our Transformation journey.

• Leading and supporting high quality monitoring, contracting and commissioning with a focus on delivering improved social and health outcomes for our population

• Building strong relationships, engagement and joint working between social care, partners and providers to support our local system

The Transformation, Partnerships and Place team in Adult Social Care has been established to strengthen the focus on core elements of social care delivery at Place in a more relational way and build closer working relationships between social care, partners, and providers. This comes at an exciting time in the development of Norfolk's social care and health system, and the role will include working on innovative and strategically important projects that will impact a wide variety of areas.

We are seeking individuals who are passionate about communities and achieving good outcomes for people to support high quality commissioning by delivering, contributing to and supporting the development of services in Norfolk.

You should have experience of working on projects, analysing data, partnership working across a range of organisations and an ability to provide pro-active support to members of the senior management team with good organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

For an informal discussion about this vacancy, please contact Community Business Lead Central area, Transformation, Partnerships and Place - Steph Butcher, on 01603 306143 or stephanie.butcher2@norfolk.gov.uk

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

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We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.

Redeployment closing date: 10 February 2026

All other applicants closing date: 18 February 2026