Business Development Manager

Babcock International; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP & health check

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International, is hiring a Business Development Manager to drive growth across the UK nuclear sector. You will build relationships with customers and partners, manage opportunity pipelines, and lead bid activity with internal teams to secure major contracts.

This full‑time, hybrid role offers diverse career development and access to extensive benefits. Based at Bristol, Newbury, Leicester or Warrington with UK travel as required.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with customers, partners and key stakeholders to identify new opportunities.
• Develop and manage a pipeline of future opportunities and drive bid activity.
• Lead planning for major opportunities and coordinate with internal teams.
• Maintain account plans and monitor market activity and business performance.
• Support bid activities and connect customers with the wider business.

Skills

Nuclear market

Stakeholder negotiation

Relationship building

Opportunity pipeline

Contract risk awareness

Job description

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full Time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75985

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.

The role

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.

Essential experience of the Business Development Manager

• 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.

Qualifications for the Business Development Manager

• 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.

Security Clearance

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)

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.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 07/10/2026

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