Business Development Manager

Salary Competitive - to be discussed

Seniority Senior

• Closing:11:59pm, 10th Aug 2026 BST

Work from home option

Life Insurance

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Salary sacrifice

Team social events

Extracurricular clubs

Cycle to work scheme

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Business Development Manager (Industries of interest - Energy, Transport or Built Environment)

Please note, this is a part time contract role (inside IR35) and approximately 2-3 days per week. We are flexible on how these hours could be worked and happy with full remote working.

The Challenge: The Catapult is organised into three Mission areas:
Beyond Earth, Autonomous and Connected Earth, and Resilient Earth. Each Mission is tasked with developing a strategic portfolio of interventions which represent the highest opportunity for growth in the space sector. These interventions have been designed to lower the barriers to growth for UK businesses. The Catapult uses its products and services to deliver these interventions and to achieve market impact.

The Catapult’s business development team are responsible for engaging with customers, businesses, government organisations and the wider space sector to support the delivery of Mission objectives. Through our Mission strategy development, the Catapult has identified the following key market areas to support UK business growth: Utilities and Infrastructure, Transport, Telecommunications and Digital Technologies, Defence and Security, Healthcare and Financial Services. In addition, there are opportunities for the Catapult across a variety of funding agencies.

These markets are the focus of our business development team.

Catapult’s business development team are responsible for engaging with customers, businesses, government organisations and the wider space sector to support the delivery of Mission objectives.

We are looking for 3 x contractors to join our team, one for Transport, Energy and Built Environment sector for 3-6 months. The contract is inside IR35 and can be fully remote or utilising our office in Harwell, Oxfordshire.

The purpose of this engagement is to support our business development department by identifying, qualifying and progressing concrete leads with priority built environment sector organisations to create relevant opportunities, aligned to our mission strategies, that will enable the uptake of space-derived data and technology.

Business Development Manager Responsibilities:

Market Mapping: Identify priority commercial organisations within the UK built environment sector where space technologies could bring benefit and adoption and capture these in our CRM database.

Identification of strategic priorities, current challenges, key decision makers, procurement routes

Stakeholder Engagement: Identify new leads through research, networking, and initial customer outreach and set up initial conversations

Build strong relationships with stakeholders in your sector, capturing capabilities and requirements and reporting these through Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.

Drive sales opportunities identified through the sales plan for your industry.

Represent the Catapult at industry events and trade shows to promote the organisation’s core capabilities.

Help refine the Catapult’s value propositions by gathering feedback from customers on what is and isn't working in the current market.

Work collaboratively with technical and business growth teams to build opportunities in response to customer requirements.

Manage internal qualification of your opportunities to ensure alignment to Mission objectives.

Facilitate the smooth transition of opportunities from the initial bid stage through to delivery.

Support the development of high-quality marketing collateral and engagement materials, ensuring the tone and technical language are tailored for the specific audience.

Produce reports and updates on all business development activities and track progress against KPIs

Requirements:

Demonstrable experience in one of the following sectors:
Transport, Build Environment or Energy and a proven track…