Commercial Manager

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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role involves advancing your commercial leadership in a highly regulated environment, working with senior internal and external stakeholders, and growing your expertise in large scale, complex construction projects. You will join our Naval Nuclear Commercial Team where you'll play a pivotal role in delivering some of the UK's most significant defence infrastructure programmes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing commercial expertise and governance for tenders, contract reviews, change control and risk management across complex infrastructure programmes.
• Preparing and validating cost estimates, budgets, forecasts, cashflows and value of work done (VOWD) for multiple project work packages.
• Leading subcontract tendering including bid evaluation, negotiation and contract award.
• Negotiating NEC4 terms confidently to secure strong commercial outcomes and manage contract scope.
• Acting as an escalation point for high risk commercial issues, supporting governance and ensuring project delivery remains compliant and controlled.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Significant experience managing large, complex construction contracts and bids within regulated environments.
• Proven experience managing Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) packages across full project lifecycles.
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to build effective stakeholder relationships.
• In depth knowledge of NEC4 ECC, PSC and ECSC (Options A-E).
• Robust commercial and contractual risk management capability.

Qualifications:

• Degree level qualification in Quantity Surveying, Business, Law, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent experience.
• World Commerce and Contracting (WCC) or MCIPS qualifications – desirable.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.