Senior Commercial Manager

Nuclear Inst; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Payment of professional fees

Reservists leave benefit

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to lead commercial strategy on naval autonomy programmes in the UK and international markets. You will join the Global Shipbuilding & Advanced Manufacturing Commercial Team, contributing to bid governance, contract delivery, and strategy definition.

Flexibility is offered with remote, hybrid, or onsite options. Travel may be required, and Security Check clearance is a prerequisite for the role.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in commercial bid management within the defence sector.
• Strong knowledge of commercial strategy, contract structures and pre-contract agreements.
• Experience working with United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and international government contracting frameworks.
• Proven stakeholder management, collaboration and relationship-building skills.
• Experience managing commercial risk on complex, high-value programmes.

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial leadership across naval autonomy and future capability opportunities.
• Support growth, bid and delivery teams to develop robust commercial solutions.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with customers, partners and industry bodies.
• Identify, assess and mitigate contractual and commercial risks across programmes.
• Represent the company in forums and governance reviews to support informed decisions.

Skills

Commercial bid management

Commercial strategy

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Defence sector experience

Job description

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working

Compensation: £57,300 - £82,300 & 15% AIP and Single PMI

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71485

Shape the future of naval autonomy and lead commercial strategy on programmes that strengthen national security.

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 any of our main UK locations, including Devonport Royal Dockyard, Babcock Technology Centre Bristol, or Rosyth Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Bristol, or Dunfermline.

The role

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you'll join our Global Shipbuilding & Advanced Manufacturing Commercial Team, supporting the Marine sector and helping define the future of naval autonomy in the United Kingdom and international markets. This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic programmes at the forefront of defence innovation, working across research and development, business growth, bid management and contract delivery.

Operating in a fast-moving and strategically important area, you'll provide commercial leadership that helps shape business strategy, secure new opportunities and deliver long-term growth. You will be the Commercial team’s key representative with accountabilities to teams in R&D, pre-contract, bid and contract delivery environments, supporting a broad range of activity from strategy definition and bid governance through supplier selection and product / IP definition.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading commercial strategy across naval autonomy and future capability opportunities.
• Supporting business growth, bid and delivery teams to develop commercially robust solutions.
• Managing stakeholder relationships across Babcock, customers, partners and industry bodies.
• Identifying, assessing and mitigating contractual and commercial risks across programmes.
• Representing Babcock at forums, working groups and governance reviews to support informed decision-making

We offer genuine flexibility, empowering you to choose a remote, hybrid, or onsite working arrangement that suits you, with the option to be based in Plymouth, Bristol, or Rosyth. While the role is primarily remote, occasional travel between sites (approximately twice per month) will be required, and we're happy to explore flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.

Essential experience of the Senior Commercial Manager:

• Significant experience in commercial bid management within the defence sector.
• Strong knowledge of commercial strategy, contract structures and pre-contract agreements.
• Experience working with United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and international government contracting frameworks.
• Proven stakeholder management, collaboration and relationship-building skills.
• Experience managing commercial risk and supporting complex, high-value programmes.

Qualifications for the Senior Commercial Manager:

• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel for business purposes.

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 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

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: 30/10/2026

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