Commercial Manager

We Served; Chippenham, Bristol, Corsham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering firm in the UK is looking for a Commercial Manager to oversee contract management and negotiate strategies. The ideal candidate will have project management experience and a blend of public and commercial sector exposure. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits while requiring regular travel and hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefit

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience managing concurrent business change projects.
• Familiarity with contract creation for growth opportunities.
• Ability to navigate matrix organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial staff across multiple contracts.
• Create and execute commercial strategies.
• Negotiate pricing and contract terms.

Skills

Project management

Public and commercial sector experience

Contract management

Commercial innovation

Education

Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS)

Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management (PGCCM)

Job description

Job Title: Commercial Manager

Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64004

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 Corsham sites.

The Role

As a Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Across all of our contracts in Mission Systems 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 support our drive to transform Mission Systems by delivering innovative and pragmatic commercial solutions for our customers, and our business; specifically, you’ll be supporting our Space business unit.

• Lead a team of commercial staff across a range of Support contracts.
• Create and execute commercial strategies to achieve success.
• Undertaking negotiations and pricing activities in support of organic or new growth opportunities.
• Providing contract management and governance support to project teams.
• Identify and implement pragmatic commercial solutions to achieve a win:win.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Bristol or Corsham on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Commercial Manager:

• Experience of project management and prioritising deliverables to independently manage concurrent and multiple business change projects and day to day operations simultaneously.
• A balance of public and commercial sector experience in a customer-facing and supplier-facing role.
• Understands and has experience in the creation of proposals whether as organic growth or for new opportunities.
• Experience of managing and understanding contracts in matrix organisations.
• Commercially driven and can identify commercial innovation with a good business awareness of customers and competitors.

Qualifications for the Commercial Manager:

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 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 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 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
• 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 [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: 05/01/2026

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