Job Title: Commercial Specialist
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £51,941 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63491
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 Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Commercial Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be leading on the commercial aspects of Government Furnished Equipment (GFE), developing, and implementing a proactive multi-functional GFE service that provides a transparent cradle to grave facility supported by the authority and the contractor.
Day-to-day, you’ll work alongside a team of Subject Matter Experts in Devonport and Clyde, supporting the wider GFE function.
- Manage bid proposals, ensuring compliance with relevant procedures and guidelines.
- Provide strategic commercial guidance for high-quality and timely proposal submissions.
- Oversee commercial aspects of GFE Refurbishments and new equipment acquisitions.
- Align commercial strategies with project objectives through stakeholder collaboration.
- Develop processes and tools to enhance overall business function and efficiency.
This role is full time 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Commercial Specialist
- Extensive experience in commercial management, focusing on contracts and project proposals.
- Strong analytical and negotiation skills to drive favourable commercial outcomes.
- Familiarity with Babcock Gated process or similar project approval frameworks.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills for conveying complex commercial information.
- Proven adaptability to evolving project scopes, collaborating effectively in dynamic environments.
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 (www.gov.uk).
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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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.
Closing date: 18/05/2025
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