Rolls-Royce
Head of Commercial Delivery – Supply Chain - Submarines
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Head of Commercial Delivery – Supply Chain - Submarines
Full Time
Derby
Why join Rolls-Royce?
At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.
A unique opportunity has arisen for a Head of Commercial Delivery – Supply Chain. In this role you will lead and support the commercial delivery teams across a portfolio of projects within the overall RRSL Major Infrastructure Programme (MIP)of works.
This is a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a complex major infrastructure programme across the Rolls-Royce estate, including new manufacturing and office facilities across fissile and non-fissile sites, being built over the next decade and will create 1,170 skilled roles across a range of disciplines, including manufacturing and engineering.
Primarily you will lead the delivery of a consistent and high-quality approach to commercial excellence in subcontract commercial delivery, budget management, cost and financial management, contract management, dispute avoidance, and supplier performance management.
You'll be the primary point of contact for all commercial matters relating to your portfolio and work closely and proactively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
Demonstrating a collaborative leadership approach you will be working with our supply chain partners, holding each other to account to deliver agreed outcomes, whilst maintaining long-term strategic supplier relationships.
What you will be doing:
- Taking overall strategic responsibility for all contract and commercial activity across your portfolio within the overall Infrastructure MIP, ensuring the needs of the business are met whilst achieving RRSL commercial outcomes.
- Providing commercial leadership across your respective portfolio to drive excellence in commercial delivery including budget management, cost and financial management, contract management, dispute avoidance and commercial performance management for RRSL subcontracts.
- Owning and managing the commercial relationship with suppliers within your portfolio to support successful commercial delivery.
- Coaching and supporting programme and project managers and their teams on the application and interpretation of commercial issues.
- Leading and managing the Commercial Leads who are accountable for project commercial leadership and management of project commercial delivery teams.
- Building visible and effective supplier partnerships within your allocated programme.
- Providing commercial and contract expertise, identifying needs, understanding priorities and potential threats to success of the allotted part of the programme, so that mitigation is defined in order to support better delivery.
- Working alongside the Heads of Projects and Programme Executives within the Infrastructure MIP as an integral senior member of the leadership team.
- Driving supplier performance in delivery against contract scope and deliverables to meet RRSL safety, quality, cost and programme requirements.
- Ensuring subcontract costs incurred for you portfolio within the overall MIP is appropriate, attributable, reasonable (AAR) in accordance with Single Source Contract Regulations (SSCR), and drive compliance with commercial policies and management procedures.
- Leading commercial governance within your portfolio, to ensure compliance with RRSL policy and procedure - to drive predictable commercial delivery.
- Developing subcontract agreements from first principles involving negotiating with suppliers and senior stakeholder to ensure fit for purpose subcontracts.
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Position Qualifications:
- Expert knowledge of NEC contracts, and specifically application of Defined Cost contracts.
- Significant and demonstrable experience leading and managing commercial teams including matrix management at a senior level.
- Significant major programme experience: nuclear experience is desirable, but wider infrastructure experience is also acceptable (e.g. utilities, transport, energy).
- Capable of leading, building and motivating a diverse workforce to deliver strong and consistent commercial performance, with the ability to manage delivery through large project teams.
- Experience to make decisions effectively, selecting the option most likely to mitigate commercial threats and realise efficiency opportunities to achieve sustainable development.
- Experience of forming and maintaining partnering arrangements in a commercial delivery environment.
- Able to establish and exemplify industry standards for integrity of commercial delivery in the use of government funding (Ministry of Defence).
- Relevant professional qualification RICS, ICES, ICE or equivalent.
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To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place.
Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.
Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.
Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to
This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
Level B
Please contact paul.gargett@rolls-royce.com for further information.
Job Category
Procurement
Posting Date
22 Jul 2026; 00:07
Posting End Date
27 Jul 2026
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