Vacancies at Rolls-Royce

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.  As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

• Ensure a thorough business wide risk profile is in place. Use the risk profile to focus strategy, investment and general business decision-making.  Develop & implement risk-based programmes of activity based on the risk profile.  Ensure HSE critical controls are identified, managed (including through appropriate maintenance programmes) and effectively assured.  Seek out significant business changes and ensure effective management of change is applied
• Implementing and ensuring compliancee with assigned Nuclear Site Licence Conditions within CP
• Ensure good HSE governance (structure, process and content) is in place across the business, including the HSE Accountability Framework, in partnership with senior leaders. Report on the overall effectiveness of governance and engage with senior leaders to implement any required improvements. Lead on defining the HSE and business agenda items, including improvement progress, and provide subject matter expertise to the meetings. Participate in Functional HSE meetings as identified by the Director, SSLA
• Ensure robust governance in place to review all relevant incidents for effective learning. Coach senior leaders to deliver active involvement in significant investigations and incident reviews. Review where appropriate investigation reports on significant incidents and provide coaching. Ensure effective learnings are shared across the business and learnings from elsewhere are considered to develop robust improvement plan  in the business. Ensure effective action closure arising from incidents is in place
• Lead the understanding of HSE performance to identify improvement actions and initiatives through standard performance reports and the HSE balanced scorecard. Ensure timely reporting of validated data and effective use of the HSE MIS throughout the business
• Develop objectives in response to Group targets based on business HSE performance and other requirements, only building additional KPI’s by exception. Actively participate in Shared Learning reviews, providing strong input and identifying learning appropriate to the business
• Develop a business/function wide risk-based assurance programme, including compliance with legal and other requirements. Monitor progress and support business leaders to deliver their lower tier assurance plans. Interpret, communicate and review action on trends and insights. Use assurance findings to improve risk management
• Define and monitor the overall business resource requirements for HSE critical roles and develop competencies to support. Identify gaps in learning solutions and work with Corporate HSE to address them. Ensure a business wide people development plan is in place and participate group wide functional people development activities

Who we’re looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference.  These principles form our behaviours. They are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Typically a degree in HSE and/or professional certifications, or capable of leading a team of competent HSE professionals
• General operational or HSE experience, with proven experience of managing others, including experience of operating globally and managing HSE for major hazard
• Demonstrated experience in influencing senior managers and taking a stand when the situation demands it
• Must have experience of managing Health and Safety within a highly regulated industry

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Position Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Commercial Officer to join the Aerospace Procurement – Partners team. This role is based in the Risk and Revenue Sharing Partners team and offers the opportunity to work with one of our strategic supply chain partners based in Japan.

As relationship owner, you will manage activities with your nominated partner account, supported by close working relationships with the rest of the Civil Aerospace commercial and legal teams and other areas including procurement, finance, Commercial Aviation (including engineering), supplier management teams and regional business development team.

This Commercial Officer role represents an ideal opportunity for you to develop your business and commercial skillset as part of your career development. You will be part of a team with a proven track record of developing people’s capabilities whilst you contribute to an important part of our business that offers unique commercial insights into both customer and operations activities.

There will also be opportunities to support functional improvement activities and strategic projects across the broader commercial and business development teams.

What you will be doing:

The Commercial Office role will cover a broad range of relationship and account management aspects including:

• Manage business issues arising against existing contracts with strategic partners.
• Manage partner relationships through regular communications including 'working together' meetings.
• Develop and implement partner sourcing strategies based on an understanding of civil aerospace business, programme and commodity strategies.
• Identify, manage, and liaise with internal stakeholders across the business.
• Contribute to functional improvement activities and strategic projects across the team.
• Act as a “Wellbeing” advocate for colleagues and peers across the team

Position Qualifications:

• Legally trained or business associated degree

Preferred Requirements:

• You can draft, interpret and negotiate contracts with external parties and have proven prior experiences
• You have a strong business aptitude with the ability to analyse business issues, with an attention to detail, in order to identify and deliver commercial solutions.
• You have prior experience of working with external parties such as suppliers, partners, or customers in a business environment.
• You have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop relationships and communicate clearly and effectively at all levels.
• You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity and demonstrate strong problem-solving skills (including some financial analysis)
• You can overcome challenges to meet goals and deliver results based on sound business judgement.

Regional Benefits:

• Work in a safety-first environment where doing the right thing and keeping it simple are core principles.
• Join a culture that values making a real difference through your work.
• Develop your career as a mid-career professional blending technical expertise with strong personal qualities.
• Thrive in a role that encourages integrity, accountability, resilience, and curiosity.
• Collaborate and build relationships in a team-focused environment while also working independently.
• Take initiative, lead, and make smart decisions with confidence and support.
• Grow through continuous learning, openness to improvement, and exposure to challenging opportunities.