Job Title: Business Development Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66988
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Business Development Manager.
The role
As a Business Development Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join Babcock’s Aviation Unit during a pivotal period of growth, where you’ll play a key role in driving success through strategic bid development, proactive client engagement, and forward-thinking planning.
Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate, develop and execute strategies with the wider development and leadership teams to win new contracts, secure existing contract into the future and expand existing strategic relationships.
- Management of the sales and opportunity pipeline through accurate and realistic understanding of the likelihood of opportunities coming to market. Ensuring that data is accurately managed within Babcock’s pipeline of opportunities and contribute to the forecasting of sales targets.
- Ensure the CRM system reflects realistic, up-to-date sales data and opportunity progression.
- Lead the development and execution of capture strategies that align with Babcock’s growth objectives.
- Ensuring development of potential and existing opportunities and leading them through the Babcock governance process
- Working with company subject matter experts to develop outline solutions that address the customer requirements and that can be utilised for the basis of customer engagement.
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Business Development Manager:
- Business Development Experience
- Worked in either the defence/military/MOD/RAF space or working within Aviation
- Have worked on new and existing business deals and customers
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and influencing abilities
Qualifications for the Business Development Manager:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. 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 Babcock 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.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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.
Closing date: 05/09/2025
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