Commercial Officer - Submarines

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Job Title: Commercial Officer – Submarines

Working location: Raynesway, Derby  

Grade: 8-10

We are currently recruiting for a Commercial Officer to join our Commercial team for Rolls-Royce Submarines team based in Derby for a 12-month maternity cover (latest start May 2026).

Why Rolls-Royce? 

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.  

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.  

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.  

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference. 

What we offer: 

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. 

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week. 

What you will be doing: 

As a Commercial Officer, you will hit the ground running, acting as the primary interface working on a diverse project portfolio and high-profile customer base, supporting a wide range of commercial activities at an exciting time in a nuclear renaissance.

As a Commercial Officer, you will:

• Be pivotal in maintaining and further developing relationships between Rolls-Royce and its existing and new customers.
• Effectively and efficiently manage our most valuable customer accounts, identifying commercial risks and opportunities to manage and limit the risk to the business.
• Manage emergent business issues including new product introduction, emerging requirements, contractual change and the resolution of disputes and claims.
• Provide expert commercial advice and guidance to the programme, technical and finance teams at all levels across the Submarines business.
• Coordinate and author business proposals for new contracting arrangements and emerging requirements, executing existing contractual principles, leading, negotiating, and delivering the tender evaluation process.
• Draft complex contracts from first principles and other legally binding agreements involving negotiating with senior customer stakeholders.
• Write and tailor communications for briefings into senior stakeholders within the business.
• Deputise for management, when necessary, in dealings with stakeholders at all levels.

Who we’re looking for: 

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles. 

Being a part of Rolls-Royce Submarines, you will embrace agility, be bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything you do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek in all roles.

• Degree or equivalent qualification.
• Ideally have between 3-5 years proven experience in either a commercial role, contract law or a procurement-based role.
• Experience in drafting, negotiating and managing commercial agreements.
• Knowledge of contract pricing and how to manage contract risk.
• Self-motivated, possess enthusiasm, energy, excellent communication, negotiating, contract management and influencing skills.
• Positive attitude and meticulous attention to detail, with the ability to take on new challenges in your stride
• Ability to solve complex problems [while maintaining customer focus].
• Demonstrable commitment to continuous professional development.
• Highly motivated and capable of working under own initiative.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. 

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance.  Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. 

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

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