Senior Commercial Manager

Babcock International Group; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock International Group is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to join their team in Bristol or Corsham. The role involves transforming Mission Systems through innovative commercial solutions and managing contracts effectively. With a focus on driving business growth, successful candidates should possess strong commercial awareness and contract management experience. The position offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary with various benefits including pension and health support.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

'Be Kind Day'

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Demonstratable experience in contract management and commercial innovation.
• Ability to create proposals for organic growth or new opportunities.
• Experience managing multiple business change projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive business and contracts forward while managing existing contracts.
• Identify and implement commercial solutions to achieve success.
• Provide governance support to business and commercial teams.

Skills

Contract Management

Commercial Awareness

Business Innovation

Relationship Management

Project Management

Education

MCIPS

WCC

PGCCM

Job description

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager
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 Senior Commercial Manager at our Bristol or Corsham and customer sites.

The Role
As a Senior Commercial Manager, 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 drive the business and contracts forward; all whilst 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:

• Providing governance support to business and commercial teams.
• Identify and implement pragmatic commercial solutions to achieve a win : win.
• Support, implement and co-ordinate the execution of commercial strategies to achieve success.

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 Senior Commercial Manager:

• Demonstratable experience of leading all contract management activities across all aspects of the life cycle in matrix organisations from across industry however defence experience would be desirable, but this is not essential.
• 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.
• 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 the Senior Commercial Manager:

• 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.

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Created on 25/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom