Commercial Manager

Job Title:             Commercial Manager
Location:             Stoke Gifford, Bristol and Tewkesbury, Gloucester + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:   Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:          Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:              SF56386

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 Babcock Technology Centre and Ashchurch sites.

The role
As a Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Our Commercial Managers make a difference every day in 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.

Day-to-day, you’ll deliver innovative and pragmatic commercial solutions for our customers, and our business.

• Providing pre and post signature commercial management and governance support to internal stakeholders
• Undertaking negotiations and pricing activities in support of organic or new growth opportunities 
• Identifying and implementing pragmatic commercial solutions to achieve a win:win whilst executing commercial strategies to achieve success
• Act as the commercial point of contact for any and all queries from the internal stakeholders 
• Be a mentor and guide to other commercial staff sharing best practice, advise and recommendations to commercial scenarios

This role is full time, 37-hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Commercial Manager

• Experience of managing and understanding contracts in matrix organisations from across the industry 
• Commercially driven and can identify commercial innovation with a good business awareness of customers and competitors
• Understands and has experience in the creation of proposals whether as organic growth or for new opportunities
• Able to demonstrate and role model the right behaviours to deliver pragmatic and innovation solutions
• A balance of public and commercial sector experience in a customer-facing and supplier-facing role

Qualifications for the Commercial Manager

• Ideally degree qualified (or equivalent) in Engineering, Business, Law, Accountancy but not essential
• Functional qualifications achieved, or would be willing to work towards, may include Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) or Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management (PGCCM)

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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
• 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

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 08/05/2024

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