Sales Manager

Rolls-Royce; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global aerospace company in Bristol is seeking a Sales Manager to lead complex sales campaigns and develop competitive solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong business acumen and stakeholder management skills, with experience in the defence sector. This position offers a hybrid working model and the opportunity to influence strategic growth within the company.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus

Employee support assistance

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in sales and campaign leadership.
• Ability to manage bids and proposals effectively.
• Experience in a UK Defence or Governmental business environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex sales campaigns with customers and partners.
• Develop competitive solutions for sales campaigns.
• Negotiate commercial deals balancing risk and reward.

Skills

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Influencing skills

Communication

Job description

Job Description

Sales Manager

Full Time

Bristol/Hybrid (3 Days)

Management level C

What you will be doing

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead delivery of part of the Defence Combat strategy. We are looking for an experienced Capture and Sales professional to join our Business Development and Future Programmes team.

The Sales Manager role will be responsible for providing leadership of multi-functional capture teams accountable for delivering bids and proposals and profitable agreements with our key customers. We look forward to welcoming a team member who has a passion for creating customer value propositions, capturing new business opportunities, leading campaigns, and working collaboratively with diverse teams from across our global business.

The specific focus of the role will be influenced by matching the skills and experience of the successful candidate to the business priorities.

Responsibilities

You will be leading complex sales campaigns with customers and partners in our key defence markets to win orders that deliver our strategy and support out ambition to grow a sustainable business.

You will be leading multifunctional capture teams to develop competitive solutions for our sales campaigns, and supporting with the definition and execution of campaign strategies for both domestic and export opportunities.

You will be:

• Influencing enabling business functions and programme teams to deliver key inputs in support of your campaigns, for leading the team through internal approvals, and supporting development of Rolls-Royce and customer business cases.
• Pursuing commercial optimisation in all proposals, and negotiating strong commercial deals that balance risk and reward to achieve strong financial returns that deliver value to the business.

• Working closely with Rolls-Royce Defence Government Relations to develop, keep current and execute comprehensive stakeholder engagement plans and strategic communications in support of key opportunities and campaigns.

• Contributing to the implementation of continuous improvements in our sales processes and campaign toolkits, and to collaborating with teammates to help grow and sustain the range of expertise and skills within the Sales and Business Development teams.

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.

In this role you will be able to contribute to the success of Rolls-Royce through winning orders and leading the sales campaigns that deliver the plan.

You will be part of the Business Development and Future Programmes team and work with colleagues from across the Defence Business and with colleagues and customers in global location.

This role offers you the opportunity to develop you career by growing your commercial acumen, practicing stakeholder management at all levels, internally and externally, and building an awareness of a broad range of business functions and Rolls-Royce and customer business models.

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, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. 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.

• A self-starter with strong business and commercial acumen and an ability to deal with ambiguity, to synthesise complex information and situations, to formulate and communicate a simple way forward, and guide others through delivery of winning bids and proposals.

• An inclusive and confident communicator with experience engaging with and positively exerting influence at all levels of organisations and their stakeholders to build lasting, highly productive relationships.

• Proven skills in stakeholder management and strong influencing skills and an ability to work successfully in a global business and with customers and partners, and with people and organisations from diverse cultures and backgrounds.

• Experience of sales, campaign leadership, customer or supplier negotiation and / or managing bids and proposal would be an advantage.

• Experience of sales, campaign leadership, negotiation and / or managing bids and proposals in a UK Defence or Governmental business environment.

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

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.

Learn more about our global Inclusion Strategy

Closing Date: 15/08/25

Job Category Sales Posting Date 01 Aug 2025; 00:08 Posting End Date 14 Aug 2025