Commercial Manager
// Role Summary
Lead commercial performance for complex rail contracts in Glasgow, Scotland, managing profitability, risk, and stakeholder relationships in a senior leadership role.
// Key Responsibilities
- Drive profitability and manage risk across a portfolio of rail works.
- Lead and develop a team of commercial professionals.
- Manage cost control, revenue, forecasting, and cash collection.
- Oversee contracts, change control, and claims.
- Build and maintain strong client and supply-chain relationships.
- Hybrid working model with competitive salary and benefits.
// Role Specification
Commercial Manager - Rail
At Babcock, we are dedicated to creating a safe and secure world, together. We are seeking a talented Commercial Manager to join our Rail (Land) business, based at Cadder Yard with hybrid working arrangements.
This is a crucial senior commercial leadership position, responsible for enhancing profitability, effectively managing risks, and nurturing client and supply-chain relationships across a diverse range of rail projects.
The Role
As a Commercial Manager, you will be instrumental in overseeing the commercial success of multiple projects. Your responsibilities will include ensuring effective contract management and safeguarding financial outcomes. You will also lead and mentor a team of commercial experts, provide invaluable advice to project teams, and serve as a trusted partner to clients and senior stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the commercial management of a portfolio of rail works, ensuring profitability and compliance.
- Manage cost control, revenue, forecasting, and cash collection processes.
- Oversee contracts, change control, and claims to protect the company’s commercial position.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
- Lead, coach, and develop commercial team members to drive high performance.
This is a full-time, permanent role, operating 35 hours per week. The role follows a hybrid pattern, with three days on-site at Cadder Yard, Scotland, and two days working from home.
Essential Experience:
- Strong commercial leadership experience within construction, rail, or infrastructure environments.
- Proven ability to manage complex contracts and commercial risk.
- Confident communicator and negotiator, able to influence at all levels.
- Commercially astute with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent qualification.
- Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or working towards is desirable.
Security Clearance
Please note that many positions within Babcock require national security clearance and adherence to Trade Control restrictions. Eligibility may be impacted by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and residency. Further information can be found on the GOV.UK website regarding UK Security Vetting.
What We Offer:
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance.
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
- Employee shopping savings portal.
- Payment of Professional Fees.
- Special paid leave for Reservists in the armed forces.
- Holiday Trading scheme.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering.
Join Babcock and be part of a global FTSE 100 organisation shaping essential products and services for national security and public infrastructure. We offer meaningful careers with a focus on work-life balance, which we call lifetime engineering.
We are a disability confident committed employer and offer reasonable adjustments during the application and selection process. We are happy to discuss flexible working patterns.
Closing Date: 02/07/2026
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