Commercial Advisor in Plymouth

Location: Bristol or Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the Commercial Success Behind Critical Defence Programmes

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Commercial Advisor at Bristol Business Park, Ashton House or Devonport, near Bristol, Gloucestershire and Plymouth, Devon.

The role

As a Commercial Advisor within our Mission Technologies business, you'll support programmes that deliver advanced defence and security capabilities across intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, communications, and weapons handling solutions. This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their commercial career to gain exposure to complex defence contracts, develop their commercial expertise, and play a key role in helping deliver solutions that protect national security.

Working as part of a collaborative commercial team, you'll contribute to bids, contracts and negotiations while building valuable experience across a diverse and growing portfolio.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Support commercial activities across bids, tenders and business opportunities through mobilisation.
• Assist with preparing and reviewing tender and bid submissions to ensure commercial compliance.
• Draft and review contractual documents, including non-disclosure agreements and standard terms and conditions.
• Identify commercial risks and support the development of mitigation strategies.
• Act as a point of contact for stakeholders on commercial matters and support negotiations and governance activities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Commercial Advisor:

• Experience supporting contract management, bid management or commercial activities, ideally within a defence, engineering, aerospace, government or regulated environment.
• Good understanding of commercial terms, contracts and business agreements.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively whilst exercising sound commercial judgement.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications for the Commercial Advisor:

• Degree in law, business, or a related discipline is desirable.
• Membership of, or working towards, a professional body such as Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply or World Commerce and Contracting – Desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) 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.

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 is a benefit that allows the majority of 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 (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.

A dynamic working environment

Babcock We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.

Closing date: 25/11/2026