Commercial Manager

QinetiQ Limited

Commercial Manager

Salary Not Specified

QinetiQ Limited, Bristol

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 3 weeks ago, 16 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 7883780b2e804ce0b084f8d7edf179ad

Full Job Description

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Commercial Manager within the UK Intelligence arm of the business where you will provide commercial and contracts advice and support within multi-disciplined Integrated Delivery Teams and Integrated Capture Teams. This will be a demanding role with responsibility for providing commercial and contracts support to a diverse portfolio of projects from initial opportunity identification through to contract completion. You will be a strategic thinker, supporting the overall business objectives for growth and innovation (UK and International) demonstrating an awareness and forethought beyond the task at hand with a three year planning horizon.

Day to day, you'll:

  • You will be responsible for all aspects of commercial and contractual support including customer bidding and contracting, advising on export and import control (in support of our trade solutions team), risk management, change control, contract and document drafting, and issue resolution

  • You will be a member of a dynamic commercial and contracts management team, reporting to an experienced Commercial lead, where your hard work and professional experience will be expected to generate innovative commercial solutions

  • You will be expected to manage your projects portfolio with minimal supervision and have experience of leading negotiations and be familiar with the typical issues that can arise when developing or managing complex contracts, and how they can be mitigated in commercial approach

  • Travel throughout the UK and possibly overseas is possible. You will engage at senior management levels within the business and may have line management responsibility for more junior members of the team

  • You will be required to support contract management activities as part of your role, which may include engagement with any phase of the contract lifecycle. You will manage relevant post contract processes, ensuring continued customer satisfaction

    Commercial Management experience

  • Strong Stakeholder Management skills

  • An accountable self-starter, modelling responsibility and lead others to be accountable

  • A motivated learner, capable of identifying individual / team training needs and closing the gaps, A university degree (or comparable work experience), is accredited to IACCM (WCC) Advanced Practitioner status or higher, or MCIPS qualified

    As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.


  • Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.

  • Flexible, adaptive working

  • Generous holiday allowance

  • Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance

  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance

  • Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more

  • Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days' additional leave.

  • We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant

  • Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community


  • Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community.

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    Why join QinetiQ?

    As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there's never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

    You'll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you'll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.

    Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You'll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what's happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.