Commercial Manager

Job Description

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An exciting opportunity has become available to join Boeing Defence United Kingdom (BDUK) as a Commercial Manager in the Digital business unit, focusing predominantly on contract change and growth opportunities. The role is full‑time based in Bristol, with hybrid working available.

This is a non‑line management role within the BDUK Digital Commercial Team, reporting to the Digital Head of Commercial. The Digital business unit is one of 3 business units in BDUK, and the digital commercial team supports a portfolio of complex contracts, mainly with the UK MOD, with ongoing growth activities and long‑term contracted programmes. The business growth comprises a mix of on‑contract change and new business bids and proposals, in line with company growth strategy.

Across this portfolio, you’ll find energetic and motivated integrated teams working together to deliver for our customer, and the Commercial function delivers value‑adding business partnering in all phases of the contract lifecycle. In this position, you will play an integral role to support the portfolio and will have the opportunity to work with and support colleagues across our teams as we support a wide variety of responsibilities in a dynamic environment.

You can expect assignments requiring typical contract management execution duties, providing expert commercial support and exercising strong business judgment in optimising our delivery of the contract and working closely with our customer; leading and supporting contract change and amendment proposals of varying sizes and complexity. You may be asked to participate in and support other strategic imperatives of the overall business as we pursue growth opportunities within and outside of our existing portfolio.

You will be provided with support and coaching to perform successfully and be given a set of responsibilities to work independently to develop your skills and capabilities.

Notable features of the role include managing all contract change activity across a large and complex digital services and support contract, managing the discharging of contractual obligations, interpretation of contractual terms and positions, building and maintaining effective customer and stakeholder relationships, proactive risk and opportunity management, preparing and negotiating proposals for contract change & amendment proposals as well as proposals for new business, managing intercompany arrangements and supplier flow‑down, proactive participation in all required programme and customer meetings and providing effective governance to changes and proposals to ensure robust, protective and profitable outcomes by adopting a leadership attitude and approach.

In addition, there may be an opportunity to participate in early campaign phases to commercially influence and shape aligned to business strategy and core capabilities.

This is a mid‑level, non‑line management role within the team, with principal responsibilities including:

• Managing all contract change activity across a complex UK MoD digital services and support contract.
• Lead and participate in moderate complexity proposal development, negotiation, and execution of contractual agreements, including contract changes and amendments, within appropriate signature authority.
• Lead the presentation and development of complex business solutions to preserve and expand the business.
• Represent the company in external engagements, and negotiations of a moderate nature with responsibility to develop and maintain effective working relationships with customer counterparts
• Authority to prepare, negotiate, execute, interpret and administer legally binding contractual agreements of a moderate to complex nature for The Boeing Company.
• Summarise contractual issues, and support development of creative solutions and coordination of contractual risk mitigation.
• Implement and maintains effective…