Description
Leidos UK & EUROPE is seeking experienced business development professionals to join their talent community. As a Business Development Manager or Lead, you will identify, shape, and win strategic opportunities across UK focus markets while developing trusted, long-term customer relationships.
Depending on the opportunity, future Business Development roles may involve:
- Developing and executing business development campaigns aligned to annual awards objectives and long-term UK growth priorities
- Identifying, influencing, shaping, and qualifying opportunities that align customer outcomes with Leidos capabilities
- Establishing and strengthening relationships with senior government customers, strategic partners, and industry stakeholders
- Acting as the voice of the customer throughout the opportunity lifecycle and helping capture and bid teams create differentiated, compelling propositions
- Leading market analysis, competitive positioning, account planning, and customer engagement for strategic pursuits
- Working across business development, capture, solutions, technology, delivery, and marketing teams to bring the best of Leidos UK and our global capabilities to customers
- Sharing customer insight and market intelligence to support collective growth across the wider team
- Representing Leidos at customer meetings, partner engagements, industry events, and conferences
- Maintaining awareness of government policy, spending priorities, acquisition strategies, procurement routes, and customer buying behaviours
The ideal candidate will have:
- A strong track record in business development within UK Government, Defence, National Security, or the wider public sector
- Experience delivering year-on-year growth, developing strategic pipelines, and achieving challenging targets
- Experience shaping and winning complex technology, engineering, digital, managed services, or transformation opportunities
- A strong understanding of government procurement, acquisition processes, contract awards, market trends, and customer buying behaviours
- Established customer, partner, or industry relationships relevant to the portfolio supported by the future role
- Experience developing value propositions and working collaboratively with capture, bid, solution, and partner teams
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, presentation, and communication skills
- Strong commercial judgement and the ability to manage multiple concurrent campaigns in a complex, matrixed organisation
- Energy, resilience, personal accountability, and a collaborative, customer-first approach
- Confidence working across organisational boundaries, functions, and geographically dispersed teams
- Flexibility to travel within the UK when required for the specific role
Leidos offers a range of benefits, including:
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
- Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays, and a cycle to work scheme)
- Flexible Working Scheme