Commercial Specialist

Babcock International Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the engineering sector is seeking a Commercial Specialist to join their team in Bristol, offering hybrid working arrangements. This role involves managing contracts, supporting project teams, and driving business growth through innovative commercial solutions. Candidates should have a strong commercial focus, excellent communication skills, and experience in contract management.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Professional fees payment

Holiday Trading benefit

Paid leave for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing contracts in matrix organisations.
• Ability to create proposals for new opportunities.
• Strong listening skills.

Responsibilities

• Providing governance support to project teams.
• Undertaking negotiations and pricing activities.
• Supporting growth aspirations through opportunity teams.

Skills

Governance Support

Negotiation

Commercial Awareness

Communication

Collaboration

Education

MCIPS or equivalent

Job description

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Job Title: Commercial Specialist
Location: Bristol or Corsham + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

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 Specialist at our Bristol or Corsham and customer sites.

The Role
As a Commercial Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Joining our team and supporting our drive to transform Mission Systems by delivering innovative and pragmatic commercial solutions for our customers, and our business.

Day-to-day, you’ll be working within our Space Business Unit to support a range of contracts from design to through life support of critical systems and equipment’s to our customers whilst driving the business and contracts forward:

• Providing governance support to project teams.
• Undertaking negotiations and pricing activities in support of organic or new growth opportunities.
• Supporting our growth aspirations by working as part of opportunity teams.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Commercial Specialist:

• Experience of managing and understanding contracts in matrix organisations from across industry however, defence experience would be desirable but it’s not essential.
• Commercially driven and can support commercial innovation with a good business awareness of customers and competitors.
• Ability to understand and has experience in the creation of proposals whether as organic growth or for new opportunities.
• Able to thrive under pressure and meet deadlines critical to our customer’s mission.
• Strong listening and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively to work collaboratively project teams, internal and external stakeholders and employees at all levels of the organisation.

Qualifications for the Commercial Specialist:

• Holding or working towards suitable professional qualifications (MCIPS, WCC, PGCCM) or equivalent / similar is highly desirable but, not essential.

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 .

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.