Circet IRE & UK
Business Development Manager
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
We are Hiring!
Circet Energy are looking for a Business Development Manager to join our team in Slough
Working with Circet
Circet Ireland & UK have built an ever-growing portfolio of specialist services. As part of a global group, we are specialists in the deployment and maintenance of telecommunications and energy infrastructure, working with both major operators and local players across Ireland and the UK.
We are driven to be innovative and proactive in delivering solutions that meet our clients' expectations, while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and integrity. Our success is built on teamwork, trust, and a strong commitment to our people.
With over 4,000 employees across Ireland and the UK, we continue to bring people together to shape resilient, future-proof infrastructure and deliver high-quality services for our customers.
About the role:
The role will lead Circet Energy's framework development and pre-contract positioning across the UK electricity distribution and transmission market. Acting as a central point between clients and internal teams, the role will ensure Circet understands upcoming investment programmes, procurement routes and framework requirements and is prepared to compete for them.
Circet has an established foothold with distribution network operator clients including NPG, ESB and NIE. The next phase is to broaden that position with additional mainland UK DNOs and transmission owners, with a particular focus on strategic frameworks and major network projects.
The role will support opportunities across underground cables, overhead lines, substations and associated network infrastructure, ensuring client requirements are understood early and translated into clear internal actions.
Distribution and transmission investment will accelerate through ED3 and RIIO-T3. The role will maintain visibility of operator plans, procurement strategies and upcoming frameworks so that Circet can build the capability, relationships and readiness required ahead of market engagement.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
The role is responsible for turning market intelligence and client engagement into structured framework plans, coordinating internal readiness and tender activity from early engagement through award and handover. It requires a disciplined, commercially aware approach and the ability to work across operational, estimating, commercial and technical teams.
Responsibilities of a Business Development Manager:
Framework Strategy & Opportunity Management
- Maintain clear visibility of DNO and TO investment programmes, business plans, framework strategies and procurement routes.
- Own the D&T framework and opportunity register in Salesforce, with clear priorities, actions and status.
- Develop plans for priority operators and identify market engagement, qualification, PQQ and tender entry points.
DNO & TO Client Engagement
- Lead structured engagement with UK DNOs and transmission owners across asset, delivery, procurement, commercial and technical functions.
- Understand client priorities, capability expectations and procurement strategies through ED2/ED3 and RIIO-T2/T3 regulatory cycles.
- Develop existing network operator relationships and establish relationships with additional mainland UK DNOs and TOs.
- Attend client and industry events to progress the pipeline.
- Act as a trusted advisor sharing best practice and advocating innovation, with clients, supply chain and internally.
Tender & Pre-Contract Coordination
- Coordinate market engagement, PQQ, bid/no-bid and tender activity with estimating, commercial, operations and technical teams.
- Ensure proposed solutions align the client's requirements with Circet's delivery capability, resource availability, accreditations, supply chain capacity and risk appetite. Where further development is required, help shape the necessary actions.
- Support pre-award review of scope, commercial and contractual requirements, and ensure a structured handover of awarded frameworks and projects into delivery.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Internal Capability & Governance
- Provide DNO and TO market and framework intelligence to support strategy, capability development and investment decisions.
- Identify readiness gaps across people, accreditations, technical capability, systems and supply chain, and coordinate corrective actions.
- Maintain reporting on priority frameworks, client actions, tender milestones and risks, leveraging Circet Group centres of excellence.
Knowledge & Skills Requirements:
- Experience in frameworks, pre-contract, client/account management or work winning within electricity networks or major infrastructure.
- Track record of managing framework qualification and tender activity with regulated utilities or infrastructure clients.
- Good understanding of DNO/TO procurement and stakeholders; established UK electricity network relationships are desirable.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams through PQQ, tender and pre-award stages.
- Strong commercial awareness and working knowledge of framework contracting, ideally including NEC.
Why work in Circet?
- Be part of a company that encourages involvement, diversity and inclusion
- Be part of a company that nurtures excellence and develops leaders
- Be part of a company that encourages personal development and career progression through our further education programme, mentoring programme and pathway programme
- Be part of a company that is dedicated to making a difference through our Corporate Social Responsibility
- You will get a competitive salary and a benefits package which includes 25 days annual leave per annum, life assurance, access to Employee Assistance Programmes and access to career developmental opportunities
Circet IRE & UK is an inclusive organisation and welcomes all applications. Our mission is to create a workforce that consists of individuals with talent, skills and potential across all areas of our business. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Location