Senior Commercial Manager

Babcock International; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Flexible working

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager in Andover, Hampshire with hybrid working arrangements. The role focuses on strategic commercial leadership across future Land Sector opportunities and high-value government contracts, negotiating complex agreements and ensuring governance across bids.

The position offers full-time permanent or fixed-term options and supports flexible working across UK locations.

Qualifications

• Proven success leading negotiations and securing high-value MoD or public sector contracts.
• Significant commercial experience supporting or leading complex tenders and bid activities.
• Strong background in strategic commercial management within multi-disciplinary environments.
• Demonstrated ability to assess contractual terms and translate impacts on profit, loss and delivery risk.
• Experience supporting or leading the commercialisation of new products, services or emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic commercial leadership across future Land Sector opportunities.
• Lead negotiations with government authorities, Ministry of Defence customers and commercial partners on complex contractual arrangements.
• Develop and implementing commercial agreements including confidentiality agreements, teaming agreements and customer contracts.
• Support commercial governance activities across major bids, tenders and growth opportunities.
• Guide bid teams and Future Business leaders on commercial strategy, risk management and contractual compliance.

Skills

Negotiation leadership

Public sector contracts

Commercial governance

Strategic management

Bid management

Contract terms analysis

Commercialisation

Education

Degree in commercial discipline

Job description

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent or Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF76145

Shape the future of defence, technology and innovation

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Commercial Manager at Andover, Hampshire, with flexibility for the role to be based at other Babcock locations across the UK.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the growth of Babcock's Land Sector, supporting major business opportunities, innovative technologies and strategic defence programmes. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll play a key role in securing and shaping high-value commercial agreements that support national security, operational capability and future innovation. Whether supporting multiple opportunities or leading the commercial aspects of a major bid, you'll have the chance to make a meaningful impact while developing your career within one of the UK's leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisations.

The role

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you'll provide strategic commercial leadership across future business opportunities, helping transform ideas, technologies and capabilities into successful commercial outcomes. You'll work alongside bid teams, technical specialists and business leaders to develop winning propositions, negotiate complex agreements and ensure robust commercial governance across major opportunities.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Provide commercial advice, guidance and leadership on strategic Land Sector opportunities.
• Lead negotiations with government authorities, Ministry of Defence customers and commercial partners on complex contractual arrangements.
• Develop and implementing commercial agreements including confidentiality agreements, teaming agreements and customer contracts.
• Support commercial governance activities across major bids, tenders and growth opportunities.
• Guide bid teams and Future Business leaders on commercial strategy, risk management and contractual compliance.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Commercial Manager

• Proven success leading negotiations and securing high-value Ministry of Defence or public sector contracts.
• Significant commercial experience supporting or leading complex, high-value tenders and bid activities.
• Strong background in strategic commercial management within multi-disciplinary environments.
• Demonstrated ability to assess contractual terms and translate impacts on profit, loss and delivery risk.
• Experience supporting or leading the commercialisation of new products, services or emerging technologies.

Qualifications for the Senior Commercial Manager

• Qualified to degree level in a commercial discipline (Desired)

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 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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts - not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 05/10/2026

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