Commercial Manager
Location: Whetstone, Leicestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74235
Company: Babcock (Ashton Vale, Bristol site)
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Overview
As a Commercial Manager in the Mission System sector, you will drive business and the Dreadnought contract forward.
Responsibilities
- Provide contract management and governance support to the project team.
- Negotiate and price activities for organic and new growth opportunities.
- Create and execute commercial strategies to achieve success.
- Mentor and guide other commercial staff, sharing best practice and providing recommendations.
- Act as the commercial point of contact for all queries from the project team.
- Lead a team of commercial staff across a range of Support contracts.
Essential Experience
- Understanding of single-source contracts is desirable but not required.
- Commercially driven with the ability to identify commercial innovation and business awareness of customers and competitors.
- Experience in creating proposals for organic growth or new opportunities.
- Demonstrable experience managing and understanding contracts (defence sector preferred but not essential).
- Ability to work under pressure and meet critical deadlines.
Qualifications
- Relevant professional qualification (MCIPS, IACCM, PGCCM) or equivalent (not essential).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to Digital GP, annual health check, nutritional consultations
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of professional fees
- Reservists receive 10 days of special paid leave
- Holiday trading: buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave
- Be Kind Day: paid leave for volunteering work
Additional information
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject “Reasonable adjustments requirement”.
We are happy to discuss flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing Date: 22/06/2026
#J-18808-Ljbffr…