Compensation: £57,300 - £82,300 & 15% AIP and Single PMI
Role ID: SF71485
Shape the future of naval autonomy and lead commercial strategy on programmes that strengthen national security.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Commercial Manager at any of our main UK locations, including Devonport Royal Dockyard, Babcock Technology Centre Bristol, or Rosyth Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Bristol, or Dunfermline.
As a Senior Commercial Manager, you'll join our Global Shipbuilding & Advanced Manufacturing Commercial Team, supporting the Marine sector and helping define the future of naval autonomy in the United Kingdom and international markets. This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic programmes at the forefront of defence innovation, working across research and development, business growth, bid management and contract delivery.
Operating in a fast-moving and strategically important area, you'll provide commercial leadership that helps shape business strategy, secure new opportunities and deliver long-term growth. You will be the Commercial team’s key representative with accountabilities to teams in R&D, pre-contract, bid and contract delivery environments, supporting a broad range of activity from strategy definition and bid governance through supplier selection and product / IP definition.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
We offer genuine flexibility, empowering you to choose a remote, hybrid, or onsite working arrangement that suits you, with the option to be based in Plymouth, Bristol, or Rosyth. While the role is primarily remote, occasional travel between sites (approximately twice per month) will be required, and we're happy to explore flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
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).
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 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
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 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: 30/10/2026
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer
