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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.

What you will be doing:  

• 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.
• Protect RRSL's commercial interests within your portfolio within the overall MIP.
• Provide 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.
• Own and manage the commercial relationship with suppliers within your portfolio to support successful commercial delivery. 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.
• Analyse, and provide management information and reports to identify trends and address commercial and contract issues proactively. Coach and support programme and project managers and their teams on the application and interpretation of commercial issues.
• Lead and manage the Commercial Leads who are accountable for project commercial leadership and management of project commercial delivery teams.
• Promote RRSL's reputation through 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.
• Drive supplier performance in delivery against contract scope and deliverables to meet RRSL safety, quality, cost and programme requirements.
• Ensure 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.
• Lead commercial governance within your portfolio, to ensure compliance with RRSL policy and procedure - to drive predictable commercial delivery.
• Develop subcontract agreements from first principles involving negotiating with suppliers and senior stakeholder to ensure fit for purpose subcontracts.

Position Qualifications:  

• Expert knowledge of NEC contracts, and specifically application of Defined Cost contracts.
• Significant and demonstrable experience of 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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What you will be doing:

With this exciting opportunity you will get a chance to be involved with the following

• Producing and delivering the managed transformation / change programme to ensure that the SSNA programme team has, and maintains, the right capabilities and infrastructure through the project lifecycle to deliver the programme's outcome.
• Ensuring that change is outcome focussed and impact of transformation / change (both internal / external) to the programme is identified, assessed, and reflected in project outcome.
• Developing relationships across multiple organisations to drive joint understanding and clear communications with respect to transformation, change and capability.
• Integration of change interventions with the ongoing delivery phase, future phases, and product / support solution maturity
• Development of transformation / change interventions that are coherent across parties to the programme and with the broader submarine delivery enterprise

Position Qualifications:  

To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:

• Understanding of, and success in, managing, measuring and implementation of change to business / programme operation
• Experience in complex, highly regulated, programmes or project
• Experience working with stakeholders across multiple functions, companies and grade structures, and facilitating / influencing decision making at these levels
• Ability to present complex information to stakeholders at all levels
• Knowledge of the UK Defence sector and submarines would be advantageous

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What you will be doing:

• Develop Installation Design Descriptions (IDDs) in accordance with UK MOD JSP standards (e.g., JSP 440, JSP 480, JSP 604) and NATO SDIP 27/29.
• Produce detailed installation designs covering physical infrastructure, fibre optic and copper structured cabling, power, and environmental considerations.
• Collaborate closely with Rolls-Royce stakeholders, design authorities, and third-party contractors to capture requirements and ensure compliant design delivery.
• Ensure all designs meet information assurance, safety, and security requirements for critical environments.
• Apply the SCIDA (Site Co-ordinating Installation Design Authority) Engineering Change Request (ECR) process to manage and document controlled design changes.
• Provide technical input during design reviews, audits, and assurance activities.
• Support the preparation of handover documentation and as-built records.

Position qualifications:

• Proven experience producing installation or infrastructure design documentation for MOD or defence projects.
• Experience and use of Defence SCIDA Standards (UK MOD JSP standards, NATO SDIP 27/29), and secure installation requirements.
• Experience in data centre, information and communications technology, or secure facility infrastructure design.
• Expertise in fibre optic and copper structured cabling design.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with third-party contractors and suppliers.
• Hands-on experience with the SCIDA ECR process for controlled design changes.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer or working towards.
• Experience with Rolls-Royce/UK MOD site deployments or secure communications networks.
• Knowledge of Rolls-Royce/UK MOD design approval and assurance processes.