Commercial Officer

This opportunity is to join our growing commercial team as a Commercial Officer, supporting the delivery of Hard FM and Alongside Services for Portsmouth Naval Base. This is a varied role responsible for managing a range of infrastructure projects, providing plenty of opportunity to develop your commercial career and contribute to the success of KBS Maritime.

You’ll develop, negotiate, and manage low to medium value commercial proposals for infrastructure projects for Portsmouth Naval Base and provide commercial guidance to colleagues and delivery teams to ensure contractual obligations are met. In addition to the above, the Commercial Officer shall be responsible for monitoring contract performance, ensuring the project milestones are delivered in line with the commercial proposal. You will act as a trusted business advisor, helping to manage and monitor the relevant delivery partners and building and maintaining good working relationships with internal functional areas, the customer, suppliers, and external stakeholders.

You’ll Have:

• Strong, proven experience operating in a Commercial role, with knowledge and experience of UK Defence industry Terms & Conditions.
• Experience of working on infrastructure projects is desirable, coupled with commercial acumen and financial awareness.
• Prepared to support all outputs and disciplines to achieve KBS Maritime projects and demonstrate a willingness to work as part of a team to deliver customer requirements.

About you:

As a Commercial Officer, you’ll be well-organised, have excellent verbal and written communication skills including influencing, report writing, and presentation. With good interpersonal skills, you’ll additionally be capable of working independently and collaboratively as part of a wider team. By remaining flexible to an ever-changing environment, you will employ a customer-centric ‘can do’ attitude within the team ensuring that the customer’s needs are met. Lastly, you will demonstrate excellent collaboration with various internal and external customers, which will be critical for creating a team delivery ethos and ethic.

You’ll get:

• A competitive salary coupled with 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, an enhanced pension scheme, and life assurance.
• Access to our in-house benefits and discounts programme for all colleagues, a cycle to work scheme, and continued professional career development.
• Access to flexible parental benefits (if applicable) and our internal employee assistance network.

Application process:

Applications are urged to apply prior to the advertising closing date of Saturday 1st March 2025, with a view of interviews scheduled to commence week commencing Monday 3rd March 2025. For all queries, please contact the Recruitment Team in the first instance who will advise accordingly.

About Us:

KBS Maritime delivers Asset Management, Facilities Management, and Energy Solutions across the maritime and defence environments. With parent companies KBR and BAE Systems, the JV has the pedigree of two global organisations, but we have the ethos of a small business where our people are valued and empowered to succeed. It’s a great place to work, and we bring opportunity to all our team.