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Job Title: Commercial Manager

Location: Glascoed – hybrid pattern of 3 days weekly onsite

Referral Scheme: £1000

Grade: GG11

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE Should you be invited for interview, you will be giving consent for the Recruitment Team to contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Role description:

Working within the Next Generation Munitions Solution (NGMS) Joint Requirements Capability Cell (JRCC), you will provide commercial leadership across the NGMS contract, ensuring activities are delivered in a coherent, consistent and coordinated manner. Acting as the day-to-day commercial decision maker for Land UK, you will support governance, stakeholder engagement and effective commercial delivery.

You will play a pivotal role in a critical, multi-billion-pound defence contract, where significant investment is shaping the future of defence munitions capability.

Core duties:

  • Leading all commercial activities across the NGMS contract, including annual order cycles, contract amendments, engineering tasking and emerging business requirements
  • Driving a consistent and collaborative commercial approach across Integrated Delivery Teams, Engineering functions and key MOD stakeholders
  • Building effective working relationships with contracting authority, including regular engagement at Abbey Wood and Glascoed, to maximise long-term contract value
  • Providing commercial leadership and support to the JRCC, ensuring decisions are accurately recorded, monitored and delivered through the commercial function
  • Maintaining clear, compliant and up-to-date contractual arrangements, ensuring obligations, assumptions, dependencies and exclusions are effectively managed
  • Supporting NGMS lifecycle governance activities, including LCM gate reviews, implementation of recommendations, RBA approvals and maintenance of the Service Delivery Plan

Essential skills:

  • Strong commercial awareness, with proven understanding of defence contracting environments
  • Working knowledge of UK MOD contracts and Single Source Procurement Regulations
  • Ability to prepare robust business approvals, balancing risk mitigation and commercial performance
  • Financially astute, with experience managing contract risk, opportunities and legal considerations
  • Ability to ensure compliant Commercial Life Cycle Management (LCM) delivery, proposal approvals, pricing governance and business-winning support
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with proven leadership experience within complex multi-functional environments

The Joint Requirements Capability Cell team:

Join a uniquely integrated team within the NGMS Joint Requirements Capability Cell (JRCC), where industry, UK MOD and Front-Line Command experts work side-by-side to shape critical munitions capabilities. Empowered to make enterprise-wide decisions, the team play a key role in driving collaboration, influencing strategy and delivering outcomes that directly support UK defence operations.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best.

You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 8th October 2026