Business Development Manager

• Job Title: Business Development Manager
• Location: Glascoed. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
• Referral Bonus: £1,000
• Grade: GG12
• You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.
• We know there may be exceptionalindividual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.
• If you don’t feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.
• PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Core Duties

Provide market direction into the Advanced Weapons Delivery Team

Be directly responsible for achieving the Order Intake targets set in the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for the IDT

Be directly accountable for identifying future opportunities and routes to extending existing contracts in order to meet objectives set out in the IBP. This includes influencing product strategies and future development plans, ensuring that we either have products to be able to respond when requirements emerge or have procurement / collaboration strategies in place to address

Develop and maintain customer intimacy in order to garner information and access to customer opportunities, thinking, knowledge and concerns that in turn maximise business winning opportunities

Early identification of customer opportunities and influencing internal strategy and supporting preparation of bids, taking on the role of Bid Manager when required

Reach back into BAE Systems to achieve goals, to include Defence Solutions Munitions, Group Business Development and BAE Systems Inc

Essential Skills

• You will have experience of customer environment and demonstrable ability to build customer intimacy
• You will have the ability to influence internal stakeholders to take them on the journey of business winning
• Knowledge of Weapons and Munitions capabilities with the ability to link those to tackling current and future challenges is desirable but not essential
• You must be willing to travel to locations UK and worldwide to meet customers as necessitated by the role

The Strategy and Business Development team

As a Business Development Manager, reporting into the Senior Business Development Manager, you will be responsible for engaging directly with the Advanced Weapons Team as well as the UK and international Customer Community on all aspects, particularly with regards to gaining insight and intelligence into future customer challenges, needs and plans.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to apply your skillset and diversify into new areas, supporting business growth. The role includes UK and International travel.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicantsmust as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicantsmust typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 3rd September 2026

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