Commercial Manager

Manpower RPO - Babcock; Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Commercial Manager, where you'll play a vital role in supporting major infrastructure projects. This position involves providing commercial expertise and governance for MoD contracts, developing customer relationships, and ensuring compliance with NEC4 terms. With a focus on negotiation and stakeholder engagement, you'll be part of a dynamic team committed to delivering excellence. The role offers hybrid working arrangements, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional growth in a supportive environment. If you're ready to make an impact in a complex and rewarding field, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated sector and large complex environments.
• Ability to develop effective customer relationships and negotiate independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial expertise and governance for MoD contracts.
• Oversee change orders and ensure compliance with NEC4 terms.
• Act as an escalation point for high-risk commercial issues.

Skills

NEC contracts knowledge

Negotiation skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Customer relationship development

Education

World Commerce and Contracting (WCC) qualification

RICS qualification

Job description

Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £59,110 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63683

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 Commercial Manager at our Rosyth site.

The Role
As a Commercial Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Join our Naval Nuclear Commercial Team, providing support to the £1bn+ Major Infrastructure Project (MIP) portfolio.

Day-to-day, you'll support to NEC4 construction projects where we are a key strategic partner to our customers, the MOD and the Royal Navy:

• Provide commercial expertise and governance to internal stakeholders (finance, project teams, supply chain, senior management) for all prime contract (MoD) tenders and contract reviews, processes, policies and commercial risks.
• Be competent and confident when interacting with stakeholders and will work to develop positive customer relationships in order to represent the company to negotiate price, NEC4 terms and scope.
• Oversee the production of change orders to a Qualifying Defence Contract (QDC) together with gathering and assessing robust Appropriate Attributable and Reasonable (AAR) evidence to support contract change.
• Act as an escalation point for high risk, commercial issues.
• Provide advice and drafting in relation to client and supplier NEC4 terms and conditions, ensuring compliance with all internal processes.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Rosyth on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Commercial Manager:

• Knowledge of NEC contracts.
• Demonstrable evidence of developing effective customer relationships and confident at negotiating independently within agreed delegations.
• Good communication, presentation, networking and negotiation skills.
• Ideally, working knowledge of MoD contract terms but, this is not essential.
• Commercial experience in a regulated sector, preferably in a large and complex environment.

Qualifications for the Commercial Manager:

• World Commerce and Contracting (WCC) (previously IACCM) or RICS qualifications are highly desirable.

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.

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• '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 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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