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BAE Systems • Christchurch, United Kingdom

Senior Commercial Officer

Salary:  £43,000 per annum
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Job Description

Job Title: Senior Commercial Officer

Location: Christchurch, Broad Oak, Yeovil, Frimley, Hillend, Great Baddow or Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £43,000 + depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

  • Preparing Bid and Contract materials
  • Reviewing and obtaining authorisation to agree contract terms and conditions
  • Developing and presenting business review materials
  • Contributing to development of business, proposal and contract models
  • Commercial review of all plans, estimates and artefacts and to ensure compliance
  • Engaging with central functions to address specific compliance issues (Legal, Tax, Offset etc)
  • Supporting Supply chain through proper flow of contractual obligations
  • Negotiating contracts and solutions ensuring compliance with business requirements
  • Generating and finalising contractual documents using corporate standards

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Broad professional knowledge of Commercial principles, techniques and practices and their application and understanding of the Commercial role in organisations
  • Good understanding of contract terms, contractual and legal frameworks with the ability to identify key contractual risks
  • Good understanding of Commercial interaction with customer support, finance, legal, procurement, project/programme management, engineering, business development, sales etc
  • Confident individual who can ask questions, help develop solutions by collaborating with the team in order to deliver our critical capability

Desirables:

  • An understanding of the Defence sector
  • Some awareness of international competitors and partners
  • An understanding of international business

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Digital Intelligence team:

The Digital Intelligence team generate software for high fidelity crew/operator compartments where high levels of training immersion are required, applying them in the fields of aircraft and submarine maintenance training. Customers increasingly demand information and technology solutions delivering advantage, communications, planning, operations, and cyber protection. C5ISR within Digital Intelligence is where we design and build cutting edge IT solutions for incorporation into products and services.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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: 18th June 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 52 weeks with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Gym membership – Discounts available
Buy or sell annual leave
Share options
Salary sacrifice
Employee discounts
Lunch and learns
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Mental health first aiders
Health insurance
Family health insurance
Annual bonus
Shared parental leave
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
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Working at BAE Systems

Company employees

Around 100,000

Currently Hiring Countries

Australia

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