SDE Collaborative Hub Manager

Rolls-Royce plc; Harry Stoke; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

bonus

employee support assistance

employee discounts

Job summary

Rolls-Royce Submarines is seeking a SDE Collaborative Hub Manager to lead a cross-functional team in Bristol, delivering improvements across SDE programmes with strong stakeholder engagement. You will drive alignment with customer and enterprise priorities and guide a capable team through complex challenges.

On-site at Bristol with hybrid options, the role requires leadership, strategic thinking, and a track record of delivering engineering initiatives in demanding environments.

Qualifications

• Engineering background with large complex assets, ideally in service.
• Experience of Submarines, Military Vehicles, Oil platforms, Rail, Aerospace.
• Continuous Improvement delivery and strong analytical skills.
• Proven leadership of high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a collaborative team to identify, characterize and deliver improvements across the SDE and partner programmes.
• Set team priorities, align with customer and enterprise priorities, review outputs before customer release.
• Create long-term development vision with Programme Director and Senior Managers on strategy, planning and staffing.

Skills

Engineering background

Submarines experience

Continuous Improvement

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Root cause analysis

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Job Title: SDE Collaborative Hub Manager – Submarines

Location: Bristol - BTC (Babcock Technology Centre, Bristol)

Working Pattern: Full Time / Permanent

Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a SDE Collaborative Hub Manager – Submarines. The SDE Collaboration Team is based in Bristol. You will need to be willing to attend on-site in Bristol to work alongside our mixed teams and occasional UK travel to enterprise / partner sites. We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. 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.

Benefits & Perks

• bonus
• employee support assistance
• employee discounts

Responsibilities

• Lead a uniquely collaborative team tasked with identifying, characterising, and delivering improvement across the SDE and its range of partners and programmes
• Drive engagement to assure alignment of the team to customer and enterprise priorities, Set team priorities, balancing competing customer asks. Steer, review and authorise technical outputs produced via the Collaborative team in advance of customer release Create the vision for long-term development and growth of the organisation, working with the Programme Director and Senior Managers on future strategy, direction-setting, planning, staff-development, and resourcing.

Qualifications

• At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role we are looking for someone with Engineering background with large complex assets (ideally in service.)
• Experience of Submarines, Military Vehicles, Oil Platforms, Rail, Aerospace or other sectors will be suitable
• Continuous Improvement implementation and delivery
• Excellent analytical and engineering investigation skills, e.g. failure modes and root cause analysis.
• Capable of evaluating complex engineering and programme issues and considering contributory factors across a variety of sources.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Proven leadership of high-performing teams to deliver projects with the ability to coach teams to apply robust engineering challenge and translate complex information to clear briefs.
• Stakeholder engagement and management capabilities at all levels, dealing with executives, customers, partners, suppliers and internal parties
• Technical qualification to degree level, or evidence of equivalent experience.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Please be aware that priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines, you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don't currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality. Any dual nationals will require additional scrutiny and background checks prior to commencing work with RRSL.

Closing Date: 28th September 2026

People Leader: Jonathan O'Dubhchair Grade: Level C

For further information, please contact: Gauri Sood

Job Category Engineering for Services