Senior Commercial Manager

Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Bristol, GB, BS11 0YA | Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF71004

Shape commercial strategy for programmes of national importance.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Commercial Manager at our Bristol location, with flexibility to work across the UK and occasional travel.

The role

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you’ll take a leading role within our UK Aviation business, supporting delivery across major UK defence and civil aviation programmes. You’ll work within a trusted, integrated environment alongside our joint‑venture customers to deliver IT and infrastructure capability for projects that are critical to national operations. In this role, you’ll influence commercial strategy, shape contract delivery, and support business growth while developing solutions that drive long‑term value and resilience.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Lead end‑to‑end commercial and contract management across Babcock’s responsibilities within the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) and UK Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS) programmes.
• Work in partnership with customers and stakeholders to ensure changes are delivered on time, to quality and within budget.
• Provide commercial and legal insight and guidance to protect Babcock’s interests and ensure best‑practice decision‑making.
• Present accurate commercial data and insight to key stakeholders, ensuring senior leadership has the information needed for strategic direction.
• Analyse and recommend commercial strategies, options, and models to support business and growth opportunities.

You’ll join us on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, working 37 hours per week, with flexible start and finish times. The role is remote/hybrid, advertised as Bristol‑based, but with the flexibility to work across UK sites as needed.

Essential experience

• Experience in contract delivery and management within a commercial organisation or public sector setting.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with cross‑functional teams.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to communicate to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Knowledge of NEC4 contracts, PFI contracting and/or joint venture environments. (Desirable)

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in a commercial discipline. (Desirable)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK (

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 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.

Babcock

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. 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. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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.

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