We are Hiring! Circet Energy are looking for a Business Development Manager to join our team in Slough Working with Circet
Circet Ireland & UK have built an ever‑growing portfolio of specialist services. As part of a global group, we are specialists in the deployment and maintenance of telecommunications and energy infrastructure, working with both major operators and local players across Ireland and the UK.
We are driven to be innovative and proactive in delivering solutions that meet our clients' expectations, while maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and integrity. Our success is built on teamwork, trust, and a strong commitment to our people.
With over 4,000 employees across Ireland and the UK, we continue to bring people together to shape resilient, future‑proof infrastructure and deliver high‑quality services for our customers.
About the role:The role will lead Circet Energy's framework development and pre-contract positioning across the UK electricity distribution and transmission market. Acting as a central point between clients and internal teams, the role will ensure Circet understands upcoming investment programmes, procurement routes and framework requirements and is prepared to compete for them.
Circet has an established foothold with distribution network operator clients including NPG, ESB and NIE. The next phase is to broaden that position with additional mainland UK DNOs and transmission owners, with a particular focus on strategic frameworks and major network projects.
The role will support opportunities across underground cables, overhead lines, substations and associated network infrastructure, ensuring client requirements are understood early and translated into clear internal actions.
Distribution and transmission investment will accelerate through ED3 and RIIO-T3. The role will maintain visibility of operator plans, procurement strategies and upcoming frameworks so that Circet can build the capability, relationships and readiness required ahead of market engagement.
The role is responsible for turning market intelligence and client engagement into structured framework plans, coordinating internal readiness and tender activity from early engagement through award and handover. It requires a disciplined, commercially aware approach and the ability to work across operational, estimating, commercial and technical teams.
Responsibilities of a Business Development Manager:Framework Strategy & Opportunity Management
- Maintain clear visibility of DNO and TO investment programmes, business plans, framework strategies and procurement routes.
- Own the D&T framework and opportunity register in Salesforce, with clear priorities, actions and status.
- Develop plans for priority operators and identify market engagement, qualification, PQQ and tender entry points.
- Lead structured engagement with UK DNOs and transmission owners across asset, delivery, procurement, commercial and technical functions.
- Understand client priorities, capability expectations and procurement strategies through ED2/ED3 and RIIO-T2/T3 regulatory cycles.
- Develop existing network operator relationships and establish relationships with additional mainland UK DNOs and TOs.
- Attend client and industry events to progress the pipline.
- Act as a trusted advisor sharing best practice and advocating innovation, with clients, supply chain and internally.
- Coordinate market engagement, PQQ, bid/no-bid and tender activity with estimating, commercial, operations and technical teams.
- Ensure proposed solutions align the client's requirements with Circet's delivery capability, resource availability, accreditations, supply chain capacity and risk appetite. Where…
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