Commercial Manager

weServed; Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Aviva DigiCare+ health services

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Commercial Manager for its Rosyth site, delivering leadership across high-value UK and international opportunities in advanced manufacturing, civil nuclear, and shipbuilding. You’ll drive bid development, contract negotiation, and risk management while building strong stakeholder relationships.

Based in a hybrid role, you’ll work 37 hours weekly with flexible working patterns. A background in complex engineering contracting and bids is essential, with excellence in

Qualifications

• Demonstrable commercial or contract management experience in a complex engineering, manufacturing, defence or similarly regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of commercial principles, contractual risk management, and different forms of commercial agreements.
• Experience supporting bids, tenders, contract negotiations, or business growth activities.

Responsibilities

• Developing commercial strategies for new UK and international business opportunities.
• Supporting bids and tenders from pre-sales engagement through to submission, negotiation, and contract award.
• Reviewing and negotiating contracts, agreements, and commercial terms to achieve successful outcomes.
• Identifying, assessing, and mitigating commercial and contractual risks across a varied portfolio.
• Building strong working relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and stakeholders across the business.

Skills

Commercial management

Contract management

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Communication

Governance deadlines

Job description

Job Title: Commercial Manager

Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76278

Shape the future of global engineering and shipbuilding

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. You'll play a key role in supporting a diverse portfolio of high-value UK and international opportunities across advanced manufacturing, civil nuclear, and international shipbuilding. Joining the Global Shipbuilding and Advanced Engineering Commercial Team at an exciting time of growth, you'll provide commercial leadership from early engagement and bid development through to contract negotiation and handover.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Developing commercial strategies for new UK and international business opportunities.
• Supporting bids and tenders from pre-sales engagement through to submission, negotiation, and contract award.
• Reviewing and negotiating contracts, agreements, and commercial terms to achieve successful outcomes.
• Identifying, assessing, and mitigating commercial and contractual risks across a varied portfolio.
• Building strong working relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and stakeholders across the business.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week Monday to Friday and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Commercial Manager

• Demonstrable commercial or contract management experience within a complex engineering, manufacturing, infrastructure, defence, or similarly regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of commercial principles, contractual risk management, and different forms of commercial agreements.
• Experience supporting bids, tenders, contract negotiations, or business growth activities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to deliver against demanding customer and governance deadlines.

Qualifications for the Commercial Manager

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 [e-mail] 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.

Closing date: 19/10/2026

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