Commercial Manager

Babcock; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in defense and security is seeking a Commercial Manager for their Bristol site. This full-time role involves supporting contracts, delivering commercial solutions, and leading a team. The position offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary with various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Experience in contract management and governance.
• Ability to thrive under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Experience in customer-facing and supplier-facing roles.

Responsibilities

• Provide contract management and governance support.
• Lead a team of commercial staff across contracts.
• Create and execute commercial strategies.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Negotiation skills

Project management

Leadership

Education

Degree in Law or Accountancy

IACCM or PGCCM qualifications

Job description

Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62495

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 Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role
As a Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be working 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.

Day-to-day, you’ll deliver innovative and pragmatic commercial solutions for our customers and our business. You will work collaboratively with project teams, stakeholders and our partners to achieve the best commercially position possible.

• Providing contract management and governance support to project teams.
• Undertaking negotiations and pricing activities in support of organic or new growth opportunities using pragmatic commercial solutions.
• Create and execute commercial strategies to achieve success.
• Lead a team of commercial staff across a range of Support contracts.
• Act as the commercial point of contact for all queries from the project team.
• Be a mentor and guide to other commercial staff sharing best practice, advise and recommendations to commercial scenarios.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 day onsite and 4 days working from home. However, you may be required to work on site for longer periods if the project demands.

Essential Experience of the Commercial Manager

• Commercially driven and can identify commercial innovation with a good business awareness of customers and competitors.
• Understands and has experience in the creation of proposals whether as organic growth or for new opportunities.
• Ability to thrive under pressure and meet deadlines critical to our customer’s mission.
• Able to demonstrate and role model the right behaviours to deliver pragmatic and innovation solutions.
• Experience of project management and prioritising deliverables to independently manage concurrent and multiple business change projects and day to day operations simultaneously.
• A balance of public and commercial sector experience in a customer-facing and supplier-facing role.

Qualifications for the Commercial Manager

• Ideally be degree qualified (or equivalent) in Law or Accountancy but not essential.
• Functional qualifications achieved, or would be willing to work towards, may include International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM now WCC) or Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management (PGCCM).

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. However, the successful candidate can start on Standard (BPSS) security clearance but will need to achieve Security Check (SC) once in post.

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 atUnited 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• Potential to develop skills

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] 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: 12/03/2025

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