Business Development Manager

Babcock International; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP & annual health check

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Professional Fees coverage

Reservists leave

Be Kind Day

Comprehensive wellbeing programme

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear, part of the Babcock International Group, seeks a Business Development Manager to drive growth, identify strategic opportunities and secure contracts in the UK nuclear sector. You will build relationships with customers, manage a pipeline, and lead major opportunities across multiple UK locations with hybrid working arrangements.

The role requires a strong network, proven bid and capture experience, and the ability to negotiate and manage risk while delivering against ambitious

Qualifications

• Proven experience securing business opportunities within the nuclear or defence sectors.
• Strong network of customer contacts across relevant industry markets.
• Proven ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders and negotiate successfully.
• Experience developing and managing opportunity pipelines, bids and capture plans.
• Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of contracts, risk and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Building relationships with customers, partners and key stakeholders to identify new business opportunities and strengthen existing accounts.
• Developing and managing a pipeline of future opportunities, converting early engagement into successful contract awards.
• Leading the planning and preparation of major opportunities, working collaboratively with internal teams to develop competitive solutions.
• Maintaining account plans, monitoring market activity and providing regular updates on opportunities, risks and business performance.
• Supporting bid activities and acting as the link between customers and the wider business to secure new work and protect existing revenue.

Skills

Nuclear/defence opportunities

Stakeholder relationship building

Negotiation & influence

Opportunity pipelines & bids

Commercial awareness & contracts

Job description

As a Business Development Manager, you'll play a key role in driving the future growth of Cavendish Nuclear. Working at the forefront of the business, you'll identify, develop and secure strategic opportunities that strengthen our market position, grow our order book and support some of the most important projects in the UK's nuclear sector. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Building relationships with customers, partners and key stakeholders to identify new business opportunities and strengthen existing accounts.
• Developing and managing a pipeline of future opportunities, converting early engagement into successful contract awards.
• Leading the planning and preparation of major opportunities, working collaboratively with internal teams to develop competitive solutions.
• Maintaining account plans, monitoring market activity and providing regular updates on opportunities, risks and business performance.
• Supporting bid activities and acting as the link between customers and the wider business to secure new work and protect existing revenue.

This is a full-time role based at any of our main UK locations: Bristol, Newbury, Leicester, Warrington with hybrid working arrangements. Travel to internal and external customer sites will be expected as required.

• Proven experience securing business opportunities within the nuclear or defence sectors.
• Strong network of customer contacts across relevant industry markets.
• Proven ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders and negotiate successfully.
• Experience developing and managing opportunity pipelines, bids and capture plans.
• Strong commercial awareness with an understanding of contracts, risk, cost and project delivery.

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. If you can demonstrate the required experience, capability and willingness to learn, we'd love to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national and able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Shape the future of the UK's nuclear industry and help secure major opportunities that make a real difference.

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Business Development Manager at any of our main UK locations: Bristol, Newbury, Leicester, Warrington.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Cavendish We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.