Commercial Manager in Devon

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 and play a pivotal role in delivering some of the UK’s most significant defence infrastructure programmes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Influencing billion-pound portfolios and ensuring that commercial governance, risk management and contract compliance are handled with precision and confidence.
• 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.

What we offer:

• 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’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. 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 are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com 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.