Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £55,000 - £65,000
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73049
Lead commercial strategy at one of the UK’s most important maritime sites
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 Rosyth Royal Dockyard, near Dunfermline, Fife. Babcock is a trusted international defence, aerospace and engineering organisation. Our people support the armed forces, deliver critical national infrastructure and help protect communities — work that truly matters, every day.
As a Senior Commercial Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the commercial direction of Rosyth Royal Dockyard — a strategically vital site supporting UK defence and marine operations. This is a high‑impact opportunity to influence site strategy, strengthen commercial governance and support complex operational activities across facilities management, marine operations, ports and harbour services, and major capital investment projects. Working closely with senior leadership, supply chain teams and stakeholders across the business, you’ll ensure robust commercial practice while enabling safe, efficient and compliant delivery.
This role offers variety, influence and visibility, with regular exposure to senior leaders and the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on a growing operation — all while further developing your career in a dynamic and purpose‑led environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Providing commercial leadership and advice across site operations, including facilities, marine operations and capital expenditure programmes
- Supporting the Operations Director on all commercial aspects of site delivery, governance and performance
- Managing commercial responsibility for major site capital projects, implementing structured and compliant procurement plans
- Advising supply chain teams on subcontract negotiations, contract terms and best commercial practice
- Building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to enable successful delivery.
You’ll work 36 hours per week, mostly within the standard working week, based at Rosyth Royal Dockyard. Hybrid working patterns are available, with an expectation of being onsite for at least two to three days per week.
Essential experience of the Senior Commercial Manager:
- Strong operational commercial experience within complex, regulated environments
- Detailed knowledge of commercial terms, agreements and commercial strategy
- Proven ability to manage stakeholder relationships and influence at senior levels
- Excellent communication, collaboration and risk management skills
- Experience working to tight governance and delivery deadlines
Qualifications for the Senior Commercial Manager:
- Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Business, Law or Accountancy
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel for business purposes
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 23/04/2026
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