Commercial Manager - Submarines

ENGINEERINGUK; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Commercial Manager for their Submarines division in Derby. This role involves managing customer relationships, identifying commercial risks and opportunities, and drafting complex contracts. We offer a competitive salary, exceptional benefits, and a strong emphasis on inclusion and professional development.

Benefits

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Bonus opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with Commercial contracting and ability to solve complex problems while maintaining a customer focus.
• Sound business and commercial acumen to interpret commercial issues.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary interface with customers and maintain relationships.
• Identify commercial risks and provide expert advice to teams.
• Draft complex contracts while negotiating with stakeholders.

Skills

Commercial contracting

Problem solving

Customer focus

Commercial acumen

Team player

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification

Job description

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Job Description

Commercial Manager - Submarines

Full Time

Derby

A fantastic Commercial Manager opportunity with Rolls-Royce Submarines. As the Commercial Manager you will hit the ground running, acting as the primary interface working on a diverse project portfolio and high-profile customer base, supporting a wide range of commercial activities at an exciting time in a nuclear renaissance.

Our Rolls-Royce Submarines business is growing at an exponential rate, and as a result, an exciting and unique opportunity has arisen for a Commercial Manager to join our Commercial Team. If you have a high commercial aptitude, passion for contract law and excellent influencing and communication skills, then this could be the role for you!

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We'll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working

What you will be doing

As a Commercial Manager you will:

• Form the primary interface with the customer and be pivotal in further developing relationships between Rolls-Royce and its existing and new customers.
• Work as part of the Commercial Leadership team to maintain and promote the Commercial Function and be accountable for the leadership, management and performance of the team of Commercial Officers assigned to you.
• Identify commercial risks and opportunities to manage and limit the risk to the business whilst further developing the relationship with the customers.
• Provide expert commercial advice and guidance to the programme, technical and finance teams across the Submarines business.
• Draft complex contracts from first principles and other legally binding agreements involving negotiating with senior customer stakeholders
• Write and tailor communications and briefings into senior stakeholders within the Submarines business, Defence and Plc Board as appropriate.
• Deputise for senior management, when necessary, in dealings with stakeholders at all levels.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Work with us and you'll be involved in developing a world-leading power portfolio to enable the exploration of our universe!

In parallel to new and exciting Submarines programmes, such as AUKUS, you will be joining an organisation that is pioneering innovative solutions, including deployable Micro-reactors for terrestrial applications to enable the global transition to carbon free electricity. In parallel, we continue to advance in manufacturing innovation and technology to support our ever-important Submarines power plant programmes, for our primary end customer, the Royal Navy, for whom we are the sole provider of the Nuclear Steam Raising Plant, allowing the UK government to maintain a Continuous At Sea Deterrent.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Who we're looking for

Being a part of Rolls-Royce Submarines, you will embrace agility, be bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything you do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek in all roles.

• Experience with Commercial contracting and an ability to solve complex problems whilst maintaining a Customer focus.
• Sound business and commercial acumen including the ability to interpret commercial issues and understand the commercial components of deals and how to influence them.

• A great team player with a track record of building successful and enduring relationships across multidisciplinary teams, throughout the business and within customer teams.
• Shows a commitment to continuous professional development as well as their assigned team together with the Function and a desire to enhance their relationship and business skills.
• A degree or equivalent qualification or experience.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. If you feel you meet the majority of the requirements for this role, we would like to hear from you!

Please include a cover letter with your application to set out why you would be a great fit for the role and examples of the skills that you would bring to this Commercial team.

Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category

Commercial

Posting Date

27 May 2025; 00:05

Posting End Date

08 Jun 2025

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