Job Title: Business Manager
Location: Gloucester, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72864
Shape the future of nuclear consultancy and help deliver a safer, more secure world
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 Business Manager at our Gloucester, Gloucestershire site.
The role
As a Business Manager, you take ownership of the Professional Services Agreement account with EDF, acting as the focal point for relationship management, opportunity development, and delivery assurance. This is a highly visible role where you shape strategy, lead consultancy projects from concept through delivery, and drive sustainable growth across a complex and regulated environment.
This is a 37‑hour per week role based full time at Gloucester Business Park, EDF’s headquarters, with the option of an early finish on Fridays.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Owning the day‑to‑day management and performance of the EDF Professional Services Agreement account, including financial delivery and forecasting
- Developing and nurturing trusted senior relationships with EDF to understand strategy, priorities, and future programmes of work
- Leading consultancy projects and multidisciplinary resources to deliver outputs to time, cost, and quality
- Driving a healthy pipeline of opportunities, positioning Cavendish Nuclear for future work and long‑term growth
- Managing bid preparation and proposal development in collaboration with the consultancy proposals team
Essential experience of the Business Manager:
- Proven experience in a consultancy or client‑facing role where work is independently identified, shaped, secured, and delivered
- Strong background in strategy development, delivery management, and technical or professional leadership
- Demonstrable experience writing or reviewing proposals, contributing to estimates, and supporting bidding or tendering activity
- Track record of managing customer relationships within complex, regulated environments
- Experience leading work at the early stages of the project lifecycle, including pre‑studies, studies, or concept design
Qualifications for the Business Manager:
- Bachelor’s honours degree, or equivalent, in a science or engineering‑related discipline
- Chartered status within a relevant professional discipline, or actively working towards it
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- 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 is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Cavendish
We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
Join us and discover how far we can go, together.
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 [email protected] 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.
Closing date: 27/06/2026
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