Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: Bristol or Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Up to £61,500 (Dependent on Experience) + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF58737
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 Commercial Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Sitting within the Naval Nuclear Commercial team within Babcock's Nuclear Sector, you'll be supporting our work at Devonport Royal Dockyard. We are a key strategic partner to our customers, the MOD and the Royal Navy. As a Commercial Manager, you will be supporting contract management activities to ensure the financial and commercial interests of the Company are optimised. You will support the achievement of financial targets and ensure that contractual obligations and associated risks are adequately dealt with.
Day-to-day, you'll be part of the commercial team who is supporting contract management of the principal submarine contract which requires the processing of contract changes, providing advice on the contract, setting up Non-Disclosure Agreements, supporting internal and external meetings, working with finance to provide accurate forecasting and taking time to develop yourself with training and support to meet your commercial competencies:
- Interacting with both internal stakeholders (project, finance, supply chain) and external stakeholders (Customer (MOD) and suppliers).
- Acting as a line manager to direct reports.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Bristol or Plymouth, on a monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential Experience of the Commercial Manager:
- Ability to communicate well and manage stakeholder relationships.
- Commercially astute with a broad understanding of the procurement process.
- Ability to make decisions within delegated authority and to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Attention to detail with the ability to identify commercial risks, propose steps to mitigate, and communicate effectively.
- Good communication, presentation, networking and negotiation skills.
- Ideally, you will have experience in the defence industry but, this is not essential.
Qualifications for the Commercial Manager:
- Ideally, you will hold or be working towards a recognised, relevant, commercial qualification (World Commerce and Contracting / WCC, IACCM) or equivalent / similar but, this is not essential.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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.
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.
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 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.
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