Commercial Specialist

Babcock; Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the shipbuilding and advanced engineering sector is seeking a Commercial Specialist to manage existing projects and support new opportunities. The role involves commercial analysis, risk management, and complex negotiations, offering hybrid working arrangements and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in contract negotiation and management.
• Experience in developing risk mitigation plans.
• Ability to lead complex negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial analysis of business opportunities and contracts.
• Develop long-term commercial relationships with clients.
• Draft, negotiate and implement agreements and contracts.

Skills

Contract Negotiation

Commercial Relationship Building

Risk Mitigation Planning

Financial Acumen

Complex Negotiation Leadership

Education

Degree or equivalent in Law, Quantity Surveying or Business

Job description

Job Title: Commercial Specialist
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid/Remote for Suitable Candidate
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full Time / Fixed Term Contract – 60 Weeks
Role ID: SF63495

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 in our Global Shipbuilding and Advanced Engineering/Manufacturing commercial team at our Rosyth site.

The role
As a Commercial Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The role will focus on commercial management of existing projects and supporting the growth team with new opportunities.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide commercial analysis of business, opportunities and contracts, amongst general financial analysis of bids and contracts, risk analysis, analysis of terms, agreements and contracts and lead on complex negotiations relating to these commercial areas. You will also:

• Develop existing commercial relationships with clients into long-term partnering relationships and build new relationships
• Identify business, corporate risks and contract risks and develop mitigation plans with operational teams
• Lead major complex negotiations in partnering ways which deliver client and internal expectations
• Draft, negotiate and implement agreements and contracts
• Provide advice at the right time to avoid disputes and help operational teams to continually improve and grow contracts for the benefit of client and Babcock

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with the option for remote work alongside occasional site visits.

Essential experience of the Commercial Specialist

• Demonstrable Contract Negotiation and Management
• Demonstrable experience of partnering and building commercial relationships with clients
• Demonstrable experience of developing risk mitigation plans
• Ability to lead on complex negotiations
• Financially astute and demonstrable experience with regards to impact of decisions and the effect on profitability

Qualifications for the Commercial Specialist

• Degree or equivalent in Law, Quantity Surveying or Business.

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 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 [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: 02/06/2025

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