Business Development (UK)
Business Development (UK)
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Job Title: UK Business Development
Location: London + Travel
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Competitive
Equity: Benchmarked
Role Overview:
You will sit at the intersection of business development, engineering and national-scale industry - helping secure high-precision manufacturing contracts across aerospace, defence, energy and advanced robotics customers.
You will need to understand how things are actually made, but we can teach you.
From tight-tolerance milled components to complex assemblies running through multi-machine cells, you’ll work directly with engineers and machinists to win and execute technically demanding work. You will be responsible for building trusted relationships with founders, CTOs, programme leads and procurement teams — often in environments where performance, reliability and delivery matter more than marketing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and engage high-value customers in defined industrial verticals
- Lead technical commercial conversations with engineering and procurement teams with support
- Qualify inbound RFQs and assess manufacturability with factory teams
- Support pricing, proposal preparation and contract negotiation
- Coordinate closely with engineering, programming and operations to ensure on-time, on-quality delivery
- Maintain disciplined CRM and pipeline management
Required Skills:
- Engineering background (Mechanical Engineering preferred) or strong technical literacy
- Early-career commercial, operations or engineering experience
- Can get comfortable reading drawings and discussing tolerances, materials and lead times
- Structured, calm and resilient under pressure
- High standards. Low ego. Bias toward action.
This role rewards people who are analytical, mission-driven and comfortable operating in environments where execution matters. You should enjoy solving hard problems, building trust quickly and operating with autonomy.
What We Offer:
- Frontline exposure to aerospace and defence manufacturing programmes
- Direct collaboration with machinists, CAM programmers and factory leaders
- Equity participation at an early stage of a rapidly scaling industrial platform
- A clear path into senior commercial or operational leadership
- Work that directly contributes to strengthening sovereign manufacturing capability
About Isembard:
Isembard is on a mission to forge industrial acceleration. We enable faster and cheaper products to be made for critical industries by combining advanced machine tools, robotics and our proprietary software, MasonOS. The components we manufacture are used in aerospace, defence, energy and other strategically important sectors.
Our values:
- If not now, when
- Follow the five maxims
- Humour and humility