Senior Commercial Manager

Babcock International; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering firm is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to manage contracts, undertake negotiations, and deliver innovative solutions. This full-time role offers opportunities to work in Bristol or Plymouth with hybrid arrangements. Candidates must have significant experience in contract management and excellent relationship skills. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits are provided.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Paid volunteer day

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in contract management across the lifecycle.
• Ability to identify commercial innovation.
• Proficient in proposal creation.
• Strong relationship management at a senior level.
• Experience managing multiple business change projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide contract management support to teams.
• Undertake negotiations for growth opportunities.
• Implement commercial strategies for success.
• Lead the commercial team for various contracts.

Skills

Contract management expertise

Negotiation skills

Relationship management

Commercial awareness

Project management

Education

Membership of MCIPS

IACCM membership

Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management

Job description

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65591

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 Bristol or Plymouth sites.

The Role

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Across all of our contracts in Mission Systems (MS) our Commercial Managers make a difference every day in managing existing contracts, undertaking negotiations, pricing activities and dynamic contractual risk assessments along with supporting tender and organic growth activities at every level to achieve our customer’s mission.

Day-to-day, you’ll support our drive to transform MS by delivering innovative and pragmatic commercial solutions for our customers, and our business.

• Providing contract management and governance support to business and commercial teams.
• Undertaking negotiations and pricing activities in support of organic or new growth opportunities.
• Identify and implement pragmatic commercial solutions to achieve a win:win.
• Support, implement and co-ordinate the execution of commercial strategies to achieve success.
• Lead the commercial team across a range of exciting contracts.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Bristol or Plymouth on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Senior Commercial Manager

• Experience of leading all contract management activities across all aspects of the life cycle in matrix organisations.
• Commercially driven and can identify commercial innovation with a good business awareness of customers and competitors.
• Understanding and experience in the creation of proposals whether as organic growth or for new opportunities.
• Ability to use significant relationship management experience to work at a senior level with our customers to identify and implement pragmatic commercial frameworks.
• Experience of project management and prioritising deliverables to independently manage concurrent and multiple business change projects and day to day operations simultaneously.

Qualifications for Senior Commercial Manager

Functional qualifications achieved, or currently working towards, may include: Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) or Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management (PGCCM).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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 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.

Closing Date: 15/10/2025

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