Business Development Lead - Submarines in Derby

As a Business Development Lead at Rolls-Royce, you will play a key role in supporting across Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy. You’ll coordinate activities across the business development lifecycle, supporting campaigns from early solution development through to bid and client engagement.

This role provides the opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary teams, engage with a variety of customers, and develop best-practice approaches to winning new business. It’s a chance to make a tangible impact on major national programmes while expanding your experience across Defence and Civil Nuclear sectors.

In this role, you will be the central point of coordination for business development activities, working with internal teams and stakeholders to ensure that campaigns are effectively planned, executed, and aligned to strategic objectives. You will have the opportunity to shape approaches, contribute to lessons learned, and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality outputs across multiple programmes. You’ll also be:

• Supporting business development lifecycle activities, from opportunity identification to capture planning and bid development.
• Coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to develop strategic campaigns and pursue opportunities across Defence and Civil Nuclear sectors.
• Collaborating across internal teams to ensure alignment, process compliance, and effective delivery of business development initiatives.
• Creating compelling internal and external presentations, proposals, and materials to communicate Rolls-Royce’s value propositions.
• Supporting lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives to embed best practices across the business development function.

This role sits within the Business Development team, working across Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy programmes. 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.

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, the nature of the role, what works for the team, and for the individual.

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.

• Proactive, self-motivated, and able to work effectively both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to coordinate and drive tasks across multi-disciplinary teams, with communication and information sharing.
• Strong analytical, research, and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and insights.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, both written and verbal, including presentation experience.
• Strong attention to detail, time management, and organisational skills, capable of supporting multiple priorities simultaneously.

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

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

The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Staff Grade 7-10.

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role. 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.

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.