Senior Commercial Manager

Take ownership of senior level commercial activity across complex aerospace programmes with clear accountability and visibility. You will influence strategy, manage high value contracts and strengthen your long term career through breadth, autonomy and stability.

This role is based in Bournemouth and operates on a hybrid working pattern with occasional travel within the UK.

• Lead and support commercial activity across established programmes and emerging opportunities.
• Shape and apply commercial strategies that balance value creation, risk management and delivery commitments.
• Manage contractual change, variations and negotiations across the full contract lifecycle.
• Act as a senior commercial interface for customer relationships, dispute resolution and governance matters.
• Support bid activity, proposals and business cases with robust commercial and financial insight.
• Work closely with finance and delivery teams to support cash collection, invoicing and reporting.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across commercial processes and ways of working.

• Demonstrable experience managing large and complex contracts across their full lifecycle.
• Strong commercial negotiation capability within aerospace, defence or similarly regulated technical environments.
• Proven ability to manage programme level financial performance, risk and commercial governance.
• Senior commercial management experience within aerospace or a comparable high compliance sector.
• Strong background in negotiating, drafting and managing complex contractual frameworks.
• Solid financial and commercial acumen including risk and opportunity management.
• Confident engaging and influencing senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to interpret technical, financial and contractual information and turn it into practical decisions.
• Collaborative and pragmatic approach when working within cross functional teams.

This permanent role offers a salary in the range of £70,000 to £75,000 depending on experience and depth of responsibility taken on.

• Pension contributions matched up to 12 percent.
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.

This vacancy requires Security Check clearance. Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain relevant clearance.