Job Title:
Business Development Manager
Working Pattern:
Full-time, Hybrid
Working Location:
Derby preferred, but open to London, Glasgow, Bristol or Plymouth
What you will be doing
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Business Development team, supporting growth across both Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy programmes. You will play a pivotal role in identifying and developing new business opportunities, shaping winning strategies, and engaging with senior stakeholders across government and industry.
You’ll be supported by multi-disciplinary teams, including Strategy, Customer, Government Relations, Technical, and Commercial functions, giving you the tools and insight to succeed. This role offers visibility, influence, and the chance to drive major national programmes, with excellent career development and exposure to complex, high-profile projects.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will lead the pursuit of new business opportunities across Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy programmes, working closely with internal teams and stakeholders to ensure strategies are well-informed and resourced. You will play a key role in shaping capture plans, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, and driving opportunities from inception through to successful bids. You’ll also be:
Identifying and maturing new business opportunities, turning market and customer insights into actionable plans.
Developing capture strategies and leading multi-functional teams through the full business development lifecycle.
Building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, government, and industry partners.
Driving winning proposals and bids, ensuring commercial, technical, and strategic alignment.
Collaborating with internal teams to ensure opportunities are fully supported and resourced for success.
Why Rolls-Royce?
This role sits within the Business Development team, at the heart of Rolls-Royce’s strategic growth in Defence and Civil Nuclear energy. 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 give you 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, with frequency depending on business needs, nature of role, team, and individual preferences. Discover more about hybrid working on the GBS Service Portal.
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.
To be successful in this role you will need to:
Have proven experience in business development or bidding, ideally within Defence, Nuclear, or other complex engineering industries.
Be confident engaging directly with customers and building trusted, long-term relationships.
Be able to lead complex, cross-functional teams and influence across different levels.
Have a strategic mindset, with the ability to turn market insight into actionable business plans.
Ideally, bring technical understanding or experience working with government organisations, either in the UK or internationally.
Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.
Please be aware that 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. 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. 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.
Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy
To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business, an individual must hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently have this in place. Candidates must be UK nationals. All offers are subject to satisfactory security screening and Ministry of Defence approvals.
Grade: C
Closing Date: 01/12/2025