About the role

  • Commercial Manager at Babcock leading commercial strategy for naval autonomy programmes. Influencing bid management and collaborating with various stakeholders in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead commercial direction for UK and overseas naval autonomy programmes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
  • Drive high‑quality bid and pre‑contract activities from Gate 0–5, developing commercially sound solutions that support business growth.
  • Influence and collaborate with Business Development, Engineering, Technical and senior stakeholders to ensure commercial excellence, and to develop commercial propositions to match our expanding product and solution offerings.
  • Draft assumptions, dependencies, exclusions and commercial positioning papers to inform bid responses.
  • Develop strategic recommendations that enhance collaboration, streamline approach, and drive optimal commercial outcomes.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in commercial bid management, ideally within the UK defence market.
  • Extensive knowledge of commercial terms, agreement structures and commercial strategy.
  • Experience in UK Ministry of Defence and Government contracting methods and frameworks (e.g., DEFCONs, SC2, DEFFORMs, CCS frameworks).
  • Ability to meet critical internal and external deadlines with accuracy and attention to detail.
  • Confident working in fast‑paced, multi‑stakeholder environments and complex procurement cycles.
  • Professional membership or working towards CIPS/ World Commerce and Contracting.
  • Degree qualified (or equivalent) in Engineering, Business, Law or Accountancy is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • ‘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.

Job title

Commercial Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£50,000 - £65,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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