Commercial Specialist

Job Title:                     Commercial Specialist

Location:                     Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF76981

Shape Commercial Success That Supports 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 Commercial Specialist at Babcock Mission Systems, with this role able to be based in Bristol, Plymouth or Leicester.

The role

As a Commercial Specialist, you'll play a key role in helping deliver innovative defence and engineering programmes that make a real difference. Working within our Effectors team, you'll provide commercial expertise across a diverse portfolio of projects, supporting contract management, negotiations, pricing activities, and business growth opportunities. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your commercial career within a collaborative environment where no two days are the same and your contribution directly supports customer missions and business success.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Providing contract management and commercial governance support across a range of projects.


• Undertaking contract negotiations, pricing activities and commercial evaluations for new and existing opportunities.


• Supporting business growth activities by contributing to bid and opportunity teams.


• Working collaboratively with customers, project teams and key stakeholders to develop pragmatic commercial solutions.


• Acting as the commercial point of contact for project-related queries and providing expert commercial advice.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements, however you must be prepared to travel to Bristol as and when required.

Essential experience of the Commercial Specialist

• Experience managing and interpreting commercial contracts within a matrix organisation.


• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to identify opportunities and support commercial innovation.


• Experience supporting proposals, bids or business growth opportunities.


• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities to tight deadlines.


• Experience planning, prioritising and managing multiple projects and deliverables simultaneously.

Qualifications for the Commercial Specialist

• Ideally be degree qualified (or equivalent) in Engineering, Business, Economics, Law, Accountancy


• Functional qualifications achieved, or would be willing to work towards, may include Membership of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS), World Commerce and Contracting association (WCC) or Post Graduate Certificate in Commercial Management (PGCCM).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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


• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met


• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

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 [email protected] 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: 11/11/2026

#MISYS