Business Development Manager
// Role Summary
Drive growth within the UK's nuclear industry as a Business Development Manager, securing strategic opportunities and strengthening market position. This permanent, full-time role offers hybrid working and is based in key UK locations.
// Key Responsibilities
- Identify, develop, and secure strategic business opportunities in the nuclear sector.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
- Manage opportunity pipelines and support bid activities for new work.
- Requires proven experience in nuclear or defence sectors and strong commercial awareness.
- Flexible UK locations with hybrid working arrangements.
- Must achieve and maintain BPSS security clearance.
// Role Specification
Business Development Manager
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 responsibilities include:
- 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, permanent 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:
- 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:
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.
What we offer:
- Attractive Salary + Benefits
- 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.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year to undertake volunteering work.
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. 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.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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.