Job Description

Job Title: Business Manager – Submarines

Location: Derby / Onsite

Working Pattern: Full Time / Permanent

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Business Manager in Submarines.

What you will be doing:

• Own processes including annual strategic planning, annual financial budgeting and planning, quarterly priority setting and alignment of objectives, recruitment and load capacity, benefits management
• Own and lead capacity planning, ensuring accurate recording and clear communication of future demand across the submarine business.
• Lead operational performance for the DBU and personal accountability for associated Cost Centre/s.
• Own performance measures (KPI/metric dashboards) – developing and ensuring the right systems are in place to measure progress and address variance.
• Ensures the business requirements are identified and addressed in the Submarines suite of functional plans.
• Ensure the best decision making is happening with the best data and best processes, ownership, and empowered delegates where possible.
• Using broad content knowledge to decide on priorities and connect different workstreams, projects, people and departments to create efficiencies.
• Being empowered to solve problems. Coordinate sprints into different issues and resolve ‘roadblocks’ within the DBU.
• Increasing effectiveness of the organisation (across processes, people and portfolio)

Position Qualification:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

• Has provided business process and system leadership
• Has led projects / activities / improvements across a range of Business Management Processes.
• Previous financial experience, ideally with exposure to managing or supporting budgets
• Has led business-wide improvement projects and initiatives. Reviewing and analysing historical reports to identify risks, themes, and trends. Managing deliverables, timelines, and stakeholders across multiple projects
• Has led and supported implementations (software systems or wider organisational initiatives). Whilst proactively identifying risks and improvement opportunities across the business.
• Has experienced and successfully delivered improvement programmes that impact quality, cost, schedule and deliver.
• Tools including: SAP PM, RM, CAM roles, Excel Advanced, PowerPoint Advanced with some experience in P6, Power BI.

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines you need to hold a Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Please be aware that priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

Rolls-Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Closing Date: 30th August 2026

People Leader – Thomas Solan/ Marc Smoczyk

Grade: Level C

For further information, please contact: Gauri Sood

Job Category

Group Engineering (Operations)

Posting Date

21 Aug 2026; 00:08

Posting End Date

30 Aug 2026