Job Description

Job Title:

Business Development Manager

Working Pattern:

Full-time, Hybrid

Working Location:

Derby preferred, but open to London, Glasgow, Bristol or Plymouth

When you join Rolls-Royce as a Business Development Manager, you’ll play a key role in driving the growth of our Business Development across Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy. This is an exciting time to be part of a team transforming how we identify and secure new opportunities, expanding beyond traditional single-source work to compete and win new business in the UK and internationally. If you’re commercially minded, proactive, and ready to influence at senior levels, this is your chance to help shape the next chapter of our success.

Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

This role sits within our Business Development team, supporting both Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy programmes. You’ll work closely with government and industry partners to develop opportunities that underpin future capabilities in these strategically important areas.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

You’ll join a business development function that’s evolving rapidly – moving to a more dynamic, competitive, and forward-looking approach. You’ll gain exposure to major national programmes, work with senior stakeholders across government and industry, and play a visible role in shaping long-term growth.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, 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. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

In this role, you will be supported by Rolls-Royce’s internal teams across Strategy, Customer, Government Relations, Technical, and Commercial functions. This collaborative approach ensures you have the insights, tools, and guidance needed to mature opportunities, develop winning strategies, and engage confidently with senior stakeholders.

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

Identify and mature new business opportunities across Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy, translating market and customer insights into actionable plans.
Develop capture strategies and lead multi-functional teams through the full business development lifecycle.
Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, government, and industry partners.
Drive winning proposals and bids, ensuring commercial, technical, and strategic alignment.

Who we’re looking for

This is a high-impact role where you’ll have the autonomy to shape and drive business development across some of Rolls-Royce’s most strategically important programmes. You’ll be working at the intersection of strategy, customer engagement, and commercial delivery, influencing senior stakeholders while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to turn opportunities into tangible business wins.

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.

To be successful in this role you will need to:

Have proven experience in business development or bidding, ideally within Defence, Nuclear, or other complex engineering industries.
Be confident engaging directly with customers and building trusted, long-term relationships.
Be able to lead complex, cross-functional teams and influence across different levels.
Have a strategic mindset, with the ability to turn market insight into actionable business plans.
Ideally, bring technical understanding or experience working with government organisations, either in the UK or internationally.

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 which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business, an individual must hold Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently have this in place. Candidates must be UK nationals. All offers are subject to satisfactory security screening and Ministry of Defence approvals.

Closing date: 01/12/2025

Job Category

Global Strategy & Business Development