Senior Commercial Manager

Bristol - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager

Location: UK Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72318

Shape missioncritical outcomes in defence aerospace and engineering

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Senior Commercial Manager at Ashton House near Bristol or alternatively from our Devonport site in Plymouth or our Whetstone facility in Leicester depending on your preferred base location.

The role

As a Senior Commercial Manager youll lead highimpact commercial activity within our Mission Systems business helping to deliver programmes that protect people and national infrastructure. Its a role with real purpose where your decisions influence outcomes for our customers and create tangible value for society while accelerating your own development through varied complex work and senior stakeholder exposure.

Day-to-day youll manage contracts across the lifecycle drive negotiations and pricing and shape pragmatic customerfocused commercial solutions that enable our engineering and delivery teams to succeed.

Provide contract management and governance ensuring robust commercial control and compliance across a range of agreements.
Lead negotiations and pricing activities to support organic growth and new opportunities.
Identify and implement pragmatic commercial solutions that balance risk and reward for Babcock and our customers.
Execute commercial strategies in partnership with programme and functional leaders.
Act as the senior commercial point of contact building strong relationships and providing timely advice to internal teams and external customers

This role is full time 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home. You would need to travel to Bristol for customer meetings.

Essential experience of the Senior Commercial Manager

Proven leadership of endtoend contract management in complex matrix organisations (defence experience desirable but not essential).
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to spot opportunities for innovation and value creation.
Experience creating proposals for both organic growth and new bids.
Resilience under pressure with the ability to meet missioncritical deadlines.
Excellent relationshipbuilding and stakeholder management at senior levels.

Qualifications for the Senior Commercial Manager

Essential:

Ideally degreequalified (or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Business Law Engineering or Accountancy (or equivalent experience).

Preferred:

Professional development towards (or membership of) bodies such as World Commerce & Contracting (WCC) Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS/MCIPS) or a Postgraduate Certificate in Commercial Management.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 10days special paid leave
Holiday Trading buy additional leave or sell up to one working week
Be Kind Day one paid day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice
Flexible working options to better integrate work and life subject to business needs
A dynamic working environment with strong career development opportunities

Babcock

Were Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.

Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 19/03/2026

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Job Title: Senior Commercial ManagerLocation: UK HybridCompensation: Competitive Salary BenefitsRole Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF72318Shape missioncritical outcomes in defence aerospace and engineeringAt Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us ...