Commercial Specialist

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Andover; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Commercial Specialist to join their team in Andover. This role offers a unique opportunity to support the Through Life Equipment Support business stream, coordinating contract taskings and managing bid proposals. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align commercial strategies, ensuring compliance with guidelines. The position promotes a hybrid working arrangement, allowing flexibility while contributing to impactful projects. If you thrive in dynamic environments and possess strong commercial acumen, this role could be the perfect fit for you.

Benefits

Matched Contribution Pension Scheme

Digital GP Access

Employee Share Scheme

Professional Fees Payment

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for Volunteering

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in contract management and diligent document control.
• Ability to conduct negotiations with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate contract taskings with delivery teams.
• Support ITT’s for new contract bids and customer queries.

Skills

Contract Management

Negotiation Skills

Commercial Awareness

Document Control

Education

Degree in Commercial Discipline

Degree in Law (LLB/LLM)

CIPS Qualification

Job description

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Commercial Specialist

Location:

Salisbury, GB, SP11 8HT

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Commercial Specialist
Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 52 Week Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF63947

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Commercial Specialist, at our Andover site.

The role
As a Commercial Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will support the Through Life Equipment Support business stream within our Land sector operations.

Day-to-day, you’ll manage and coordinate contract taskings with the wider delivery team, supporting ITT’s for new contracts bids, amongst also supporting customer and supply chain team with contract queries.

• Coordinate and manage new bid proposals through the Babcock Gated process, ensuring compliance with all relevant procedures and guidelines.
• Provide strategic commercial expertise to support the efficient and timely submission of proposals, meeting quality standards and contractual requirements.
• Oversee Contract management activities, ensuring deliverables are achieved in line with milestones set and supporting the team with risk identification and mitigation.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including project managers and stakeholders, to align commercial strategies with overall project objectives.
• Proven adaptability to evolving project scopes and dynamic environments.
• Strategic and quick thinker with a collaborative approach to driving successful project results.

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements and is based at our Andover site.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Essential experience of the Commercial Specialist

• Experience of contract management including diligent document control, reporting, drafting
• Previous commercial and contract management experience
• Commercial and business awareness
• Demonstrable ability to successfully support and conduct negotiations with third parties, (both internal and external stakeholders)

Qualifications for the Commercial Specialist

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent (e.g. WCC / IACCM) or equivalent experience in a commercial discipline
• Hold a degree or equivalent in Law (e.g. LLB / LLM) is desirable
• Holding CIPS qualification is also advantageous

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

• 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 [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.