Cavendish Nuclear
Senior Business Manager
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Senior Business Manager
Location
Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation
Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type
Full-time / Permanent Role ID: SF72268
Lead Performance. Shape Strategy. Deliver Impact In A Highly Regulated Environment
At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Business Manager, based in Bristol, Warrington (Cheshire), or Leicester (Leicestershire).
About the Role
As a Senior Business Manager, you will take on a pivotal leadership role with real influence over how a complex business unit performs and grows. This is far more than a planning role – you’ll have responsibility for:
- Operational delivery
- Commercial performance
- Strategic direction
Balancing immediate priorities with long-term growth, you will lead a high-impact environment focused on future energy solutions and national resilience.
Key Responsibilities
Daily Duties
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver operational performance against:
- Budgets
- Schedules
- Key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Manage financial performance, including:
- Planning
- Forecasting
- Driving profitability across the business unit
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships while:
- Supporting bids
- Ensuring contract delivery activities
- Coordinate business planning and reporting to provide clear, data-driven insights for decision-making
- Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance:
- Efficiency
- Overall performance
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Working Hours & Arrangements
This role is full time (37 hours/week), with hybrid working arrangements available.
Essential Experience & Qualifications
Experience Required
- Proven experience in managing or influencing profit and loss (P&L), budgets, and financial performance
- Experience delivering multiple projects or contracts simultaneously in a complex environment
- Strong track record of leading and developing high-performing teams
- Ability to drive:
- Operational efficiency
- Performance improvement
- Resource optimisation
- Experience managing customer relationships and commercial outcomes within regulated sectors, such as:
- Nuclear
- Defence
- Infrastructure
Qualifications Required
- A qualification in a relevant technical or project management discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance (see GOV.UK for details)
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to Digital GP, annual health checks, and nutritional consultations (via Aviva DigiCare+)
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of professional fees
- 10 days paid leave for armed forces reservists
- Reward-earning benefits:
- Ability to buy/sell up to one week of annual leave per year (available February–March)
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one day of paid annual leave per year for volunteering
- Development opportunities, including an employee assistance programme supporting:
- Physical
- Mental
- Financial wellbeing
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About Cavendish
We are Cavendish Nuclear, a team of ~5,000 specialists, and a core part of Babcock International Group.
By joining a meaningful career, you’ll contribute to projects that shape clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, directly impacting:
- Energy security
- National protection
- Long-term sustainability
Develop meaningful work-life balance in a collaborative, performing environment.
Application Notes
We are a disability confident employer. If you require reasonable adjustments during the application process or have additional arrangements needed, please email: careers@babcockinternational.com (Subject: "Reasonable adjustments requirement")
Questions about alternative work patterns? Ask at your interview.
Closing Date: 19/06/2026
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