Senior Commercial Manager

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

7/4/2025

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Bristol or Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65110

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Commercial Manager at a range of Babcock sites.

The role

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play an integral role in supporting a strategic long-term partnering contract with the MOD and help shape our vision for the future, providing commercial expertise to achieve the best commercial position for Babcock.

Day-to-day, you’ll act as a senior leader in the Commercial function, providing guidance to the team to create a commercially viable support solution that is fit for the future.

• Provide commercial expertise and governance to internal stakeholders (finance, project teams, supply chain and senior management) in the development of proposals and functional reviews, processes, policies, and commercial risks.
• Be confident and competent when interacting with stakeholders and work to develop positive customer relationships in order to represent the company to negotiate scope, terms, and price.
• Develop innovative and pragmatic commercial solutions in a dynamic environment.
• Promote and maintain compliance with commercial policies, processes, and procedures with the bid team.
• Lead in the identification of contractual risk, quantification, and mitigation strategies.
  
  
  

This role is full time, thirty-five hours per week and is adaptable and can be delivered from various locations including Bristol or Plymouth. Also, please note that this role requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites as required, alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience Of The Senior Commercial Manager

• Extensive experience in contract and bid management, ideally gained within the UK Defence market.
• Extensive knowledge of commercial terms and types of agreements.
• Experienced in UK MOD contracting methods and strategies
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. Deadline driven to meet critical internal governance and customer timelines, with good attention to detail.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Senior Commercial Manager

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in Engineering, Business, Law or Accountancy, but not essential.
• Professional memberships of WCC (World Commerce and Contracting)
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
  
  
  

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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