Senior Business Manager
Location: Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJLeicester, GB, LE3 1UFWarrington, GB, WA3 6YD GB
Work setting: Hybrid
Overview
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).
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, and strategic direction, balancing immediate priorities with long‑term growth.
You will work at the heart of critical nuclear programmes, supporting small and advanced modular reactor initiatives that are shaping the future of energy and national resilience. This is your opportunity to lead diverse teams, optimise performance, and build strong customer relationships in a highly regulated, high‑impact environment.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities
- Lead multi‑disciplinary teams to deliver operational performance against budgets, schedules, and key performance indicators
- Manage financial performance, including planning, forecasting, and driving profitability across the business unit
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships while supporting bids and 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 and overall performance
This role is full time, 37 hours per week, and can be based in Bristol, Warrington or Leicester. Hybrid working arrangements are available.
Essential experience
- Proven experience managing or influencing profit and loss, budgets, and financial performance
- Experience delivering multiple projects or contracts simultaneously within a complex environment
- Strong track record of leading and developing high‑performing teams
- Ability to drive operational efficiency, performance improvement, and resource optimisation
- Experience managing customer relationships and commercial outcomes within regulated sectors such as nuclear, defence, or infrastructure
Qualifications and benefits
- A qualification in a relevant technical or project management discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of professional fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
- Holiday trading – employees can buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave (window from February to March annually)
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day of leave per year for volunteering with chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Equal Opportunity
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header “Reasonable adjustments requirement”. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
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