As a Commercial Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Joining our Mission System sector, a critical and growing part of our business; specifically, you'll be working within our Effectors business unit to drive the business and Dreadnought contract forward. Day-to-day, you'll be providing contract management and governance support to the project team; as well as undertaking negotiations and pricing activities in support of organic or new growth opportunities.
Responsibilities
* Create and execute commercial strategies to achieve success.
* Be a mentor and guide to other commercial staff, sharing best practice, advice and recommendations to commercial scenarios.
* 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.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to our Ashton Vale, Bristol site on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Qualifications
* Understanding of single source contracts is highly desirable but not required.
* Commercially driven, as well as possessing the ability to identify commercial innovation with a good business awareness of customers and competitors.
* Experience in the creation of proposals whether as organic growth or for new opportunities.
* Demonstratable experience of managing and understanding contracts ideally in the defence sector, but this is not essential.
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines critical to our customer's mission.
* Ideally, you will hold a recognised relevant professional qualification (Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM), Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management (PGCCM)) or equivalent / similar, but this is not essential.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
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 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
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