Job Description

Commercial Officer

Derby, UK

Derby/Hybrid

What you will be doing:

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.

Responsibilities:

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 (including for future UltraFan® geared fan architectures) 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

Why Rolls-Royce?

Work with us and we’ll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

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

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. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

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.

• You are able to draft, interpret and negotiate contracts with external parties.

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 some prior experience of working with external parties such as suppliers, partners, or customers.

• 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.

Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.

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 be SNBG 7-10.

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.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here.

Grade: SNBG 7-10

Closing Date: 25/08/2025

Recruiter: aaron.thoresendavidson@rolls-royce.com

Job Category

Commercial

Posting Date

08 Aug 2025; 00:08

Posting End Date

25 Aug 2025