Commercial Manager - Change and Growth

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An exciting opportunity has become available to join Boeing Defence United Kingdom (BDUK) as a Commercial Manager in the Digital business unit, focusing predominantly on contract change and growth opportunities. The role is full-time based in Bristol, with hybrid working available. This is a non-line management role within the BDUK Digital Commercial Team, reporting to the Digital Head of Commercial.

The Digital business unit is one of 3 business units in BDUK, and the digital commercial team supports a portfolio of complex contracts, mainly with the UK MOD, with ongoing growth activities and long-term contracted programmes. The business growth comprises of a mix of on-contract change and new business bids and proposals, in line with company growth strategy.

Across this portfolio, you’ll find energetic and motivated integrated teams working together to deliver for our customer, and the Commercial function delivers value-adding business partnering in all phases of the contract lifecycle. In this position, you will play an integral role to support the portfolio and will have the opportunity to work with and support colleagues across our teams as we support a wide variety of responsibilities in a dynamic environment.

You can expect assignments requiring typical contract management execution duties, providing expert commercial support and exercising strong business judgment in optimising our delivery of the contract and working closely with our customer; leading and supporting contract change and amendment proposals of varying sizes and complexity.

You may be asked to participate in and support other strategic imperatives of the overall business as we pursue growth opportunities within and outside of our existing portfolio. You will be provided with support and coaching to perform successfully and be given a set of responsibilities to work independently to develop your skills and capabilities.

Notable features of the role include:

• Managing all contract change activity across a large and complex digital services and support contract.
• Managing the discharging of contractual obligations, interpretation of contractual terms and positions.
• Building and maintaining effective customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Proactive risk and opportunity management.
• Preparing and negotiating proposals for contract change summarising contractual issues and proposing creative, risk-aware solutions.
• Maintaining effective commercial governance, ensuring compliance with Boeing Defence UK and corporate policies, applicable laws, and regulations.
• Leading or supporting development and review of Statements of Work.
• Administering contracts and authorising company work in line with contractual requirements and corporate policy.
• Understanding and applying value-for-money principles in support of customer needs while delivering against business objectives.
• Fully understanding, implementing and adhering to BDUK Commercial policies/procedures and ensuring compliance with Corporate Policies/Procedures and all legislation, regulations and standards applicable to your contracts/proposals.

As a mid-level member of the team you will be expected to work with autonomy and minimal supervision, albeit as part of both the Digital Commercial team and your Programme teams. The ability to build strong effective relationships with the customer and stakeholders is vital. You’ll be expected to deliver continuous improvement that impacts the wider functions and business and you’ll be relied upon to develop and demonstrate a wide range of Commercial skills and assume positions of authority on commercial topics to provide benefit to your peers.

A Commercial Manager is expected to have a thorough understanding of programme race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.