Major Subcontract Manager Submarines

Job Description

Job Title: Major Subcontract Manager Submarines

Working Pattern: Full Time / Permanent

Working Location: Derby / Hybrid

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Major Subcontract Manager to join our team in Derby.

The Major Subcontract Manager shall lead and support the supply chain delivery teams across a portfolio of projects within the overall RRSL Major Infrastructure Programme of works. Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain the Major Subcontract Manager will focus on ensuring that we protect the commercial interests of RRSL whilst supporting RRSL as a balanced and intelligent client to deliver its programme outcomes.

The key objective of this role is to lead the delivery of a consistent and high-quality approach to subcontract commercial delivery budget management cost and financial management contract management dispute avoidance and supplier performance management. The role needs to provide capable and thoughtful commercial leadership progressive assurance and delivery ownership into the RRSL Major Infrastructure Programme.

The role has accountability to develop and lead the subcontract commercial support into delivery teams focusing on the balance of commercial and contract risk to achieve programme outcomes. To protect RRSLs commercial interests and support the subcontract commercial delivery of the programme through cost and commercial management excellence supply chain relationships and efficient contract administration and achieve successful commercial outcomes for the programme namely to budget and time.

The role also demands a collaborative leadership approach to working with our supply chain partners holding each other to account to deliver agreed outcomes whilst maintaining long-term strategic supplier relationships.

What you will be doing:

• Overall strategic responsibility for all subcontract contract and commercial activity across your portfolio within the overall Infrastructure MIP ensuring the needs of the business are met whilst achieving RRSL commercial outcomes.
• Protect RRSLs subcontract commercial interests within your portfolio within the overall Infrastructure Major Infrastructure Programme.
• Provide commercial leadership across your respective portfolio to drive excellence in commercial delivery including budget management cost and financial management contract management dispute avoidance and commercial performance management for RRSL subcontracts.
• Own and manage the commercial relationship with suppliers within your portfolio to support successful commercial delivery. Youll be the primary point of contact for all subcontract commercial matters relating to your portfolio and work closely and proactively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Analyse and provide management information and reports to identify trends and address commercial and contract issues proactively. Coach and support programme and project managers and their teams on the application and interpretation of commercial issues.
• Lead and manage the Subcontract Commercial Leads who are accountable for project subcontract commercial leadership and management of project commercial delivery teams.
• Promote RRSLs reputation through building visible and effective supplier partnerships within your allocated programme.
• Providing subcontract commercial and contract expertise identifying needs understanding priorities and potential threats to success of the allotted part of the programme so that mitigation is defined in order to support better delivery.
• Working alongside the Heads of Projects and Programme Executives within the Infrastructure Major Instructure Programme as an integral senior member of the leadership team.
• Drive supplier performance in delivery against contract scope and deliverables to meet RRSL safety quality cost and programme requirements.
• Ensure subcontract costs incurred for you portfolio within the overall MIP is appropriate attributable reasonable (AAR) in accordance with Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCR) and drive compliance with commercial policies and management procedures.
• Lead subcontract commercial governance within your portfolio to ensure compliance with RRSL policy and procedure - to drive predictable commercial delivery.

Position Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of NEC contracts and specifically application of Defined Cost contracts.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of leading and managing commercial teams including matrix management at a senior level.
• Significant major programme experience: nuclear experience is desirable but wider infrastructure experience is also acceptable (e.g. utilities transport energy)
• Capable of leading building and motivating a diverse workforce to deliver strong and consistent commercial performance with the ability to manage delivery through large project teams.
• Experience to make decisions effectively selecting the option most likely to mitigate commercial threats and realise efficiency opportunities to achieve sustainable development.
• Experience of forming and maintaining partnering arrangements in a commercial delivery environment.
• Able to establish and exemplify industry standards for integrity of commercial delivery in the use of government funding (Ministry of Defence).
• Relevant professional qualification RICS ICES ICE or equivalent.

Formore than 60 years Rolls-Royce Submarines has designed supplied and supported the nuclear propulsion plant providing power for all UK Royal Navy nuclear submarines.

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines an individual must hold a Security Check clearance. We will support the application for Security Clearance if you dont already have it. Due to the nature of work we conduct we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or in MoD approved cases a dual national.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing competitive resilient and growing company. Join us and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful inclusive and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued diverse perspectives fuel innovation and everyone can thrive.

Grade Level C

Closing Date : 27th February 2026

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