Business Development Manager

This Business Development Manager opportunity in Portland, England is built around building relationships, follow up enquiries, manage accounts, develop pipeline, or close opportunities according to the role. It would suit someone who can bring careful technical judgement and practical problem-solving to the role.

Known job details

• Location: Portland, England
• Pay: £60,000
• Maintain deep understanding of the maritime defence market, including customer priorities, funding cycles, capability gaps and competitor activity.
• Identify and evaluate market segments, prospective clients and contracting routes that align with G3’s technical and operational capabilities.
• Shape early client engagement to position G3 favourably ahead of formal procurement phases.
• Represent G3 Systems to existing and prospective customers, presenting company capability, innovation initiatives and value propositions.

Likely focus of the role

• Build relationships, follow up enquiries, manage accounts, develop pipeline, or close opportunities according to the role.
• Maintaining accurate and timely updates to the G3 Systems New Business Pipeline, ensuring clear status visibility and forecast confidence.
• Coordinating and de-risk upstream BD activity required to take opportunities from concept into formal capture, ensuring the business is well positioned before committing resources.

Requirements mentioned

• Develop outline bid strategies, win themes, solution approaches and partnership models ahead of handover.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a business development, capture, client engagement or strategic programme role within defence, engineering, maritime or complex infrastructure sector.