Growth Director Nuclear Sector

Job Title: Growth Director Nuclear Sector

Location: Hybrid, UK

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Growth Director Nuclear Sector at one of our UK Sites.

The role

As a Growth Director Nuclear Sector, you’ll lead the strategic growth agenda across Babcock's Nuclear Sector, helping to secure some of the UK's most significant opportunities in defence, clean energy and national infrastructure. Working at executive level, you will drive the identification, development and delivery of major growth campaigns that support long-term business success while contributing to programmes that strengthen national security and energy resilience.

Day-to-day, you’ll have a highly influential leadership role with significant visibility across the organisation. You'll work alongside senior leaders to shape customer strategies, create compelling market propositions and coordinate business development activity across multiple business units. In return, you'll have the opportunity to make a direct impact on the future direction of the Nuclear Sector while developing your career within a global engineering and technology organisation.

• Leading the development and execution of strategic growth campaigns across the Nuclear Sector.
• Driving opportunity identification, qualification and pipeline management to support long-term growth objectives.
• Coordinating customer engagement, business development, communications and marketing activities across multiple stakeholders.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with executive leaders, government stakeholders and key customers.
• Providing governance, oversight and leadership for major strategic pursuits and contract opportunities.

This role is full time and provides hybrid working arrangements at one of our UK Sites. Bristol, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Leicester, Warrington, Rosyth or London sites.

Essential experience of the Growth Director Nuclear Sector

• Significant experience leading business growth, business development, capture management or strategic sales activities within a large and complex organisation.
• Demonstrable track record of securing major contracts, programmes or strategic partnerships.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams within a matrix environment.
• Experience engaging senior customers, government stakeholders and executive leadership teams.

Qualifications for the Growth Director Nuclear Sector

Essential

• Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience.

Desirable

• Additional leadership, commercial or business-development-related qualifications would be advantageous.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 29, people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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