Job Title: Commercial Manager
Location: Glasgow, Scotland + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead commercial performance across complex rail contracts
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re looking for a Commercial Manager to join our Rail (Land) business, based at Cadder Yard with hybrid working.
This is a senior commercial leadership role with responsibility for driving profitability, managing risk, and strengthening client and supply‑chain relationships across a portfolio of rail works.
The role
As Commercial Manager, you’ll take ownership of the commercial performance of multiple projects, ensuring contracts are managed effectively and financial outcomes are protected. You’ll lead and develop a team of commercial professionals, provide expert advice to project teams, and act as a trusted partner to clients and senior stakeholders.
Day-to-day, you will:
1. Lead the commercial management of a portfolio of rail works, ensuring profitability and compliance
2. Manage cost control, revenue, forecasting, and cash collection processes
3. Oversee contracts, change control, and claim to protect the company’s commercial position
4. Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders
5. Lead, coach, and develop commercial team members to drive high performance.
This is a full‑time, permanent role, working 35 hours per week, with a hybrid pattern of three days on site at Cadder Yard, Scotland and two days working from home.
Essential experience of the Commercial Manager:
6. Strong commercial leadership experience within construction, rail, or infrastructure environments
7. Proven ability to manage complex contracts and commercial risk
8. Confident communicator and negotiator, able to influence at all levels
9. Commercially astute with a proactive, solutions‑focused mindset.
Qualifications for the Commercial Manager:
10. Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent qualification
11. Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or working towards (desirable.)
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We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
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