Rolls-Royce
Business Development Lead - Submarines
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Job Description
Job Title:
Business Development Lead
Working Pattern:
Full-time, Hybrid
Working Location:
Derby
When you join Rolls-Royce as a Business Development Lead, you’ll support across Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy. You’ll play a pivotal role in pursuing and winning new business, developing best-practice approaches, and ensuring collaboration across Strategy, Customer, Government Relations, Technical, and Commercial teams. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a wide variety of opportunities with differing customers and requirements, while gaining exposure to major national programmes and long-term growth projects.
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 the Business Development team, working across both Submarines and Civil Nuclear energy programmes. You will engage closely with internal teams and customers, supporting strategy, capture planning, and programme pursuit activities to ensure coherent, efficient, and successful business development.
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.
What we offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits, including bonus, employee support assistance, and employee discounts.
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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
As a Business Development Lead, you will be supported by internal teams across Strategy, Customer, Government Relations, Technical, and Commercial functions to ensure you have the insight, tools, and guidance needed to succeed. You will coordinate activities across the business development lifecycle, supporting campaigns from early solution development through to bid and client engagement.
With this opportunity, you will get a chance to:
- Support business development lifecycle activities, from opportunity identification to capture planning and bid development.
- Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to develop strategic campaigns and pursue opportunities across Defence and Civil Nuclear sectors.
- Collaborate across internal teams to ensure alignment, process compliance, and effective delivery of business development initiatives.
- Create compelling internal and external presentations, proposals, and materials that communicate Rolls-Royce’s value propositions.
- Support lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives to embed best practices across the business development function.
Who we’re looking for
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:
- 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.
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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. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
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.
As part of our selection process, candidates in certain locations may be asked to complete an online assessment, which can include cognitive and behavioural aptitude testing relevant to the role. If required, full instructions for the next steps will be provided.
Job Category
Global Strategy & Business Development
Posting Date
17 Jul 2026; 00:07
Posting End Date
30 Jul 2026
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