2025 Business Growth Graduate

Location: Manor Royal Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

**2025 Business Growth Graduate**

**Start Date**: 01 September 2025

**Salary**:£30,000 per annum

**Employee type**:Permanent

**Locations**: Rotational programme across our key sites (Belfast, Crawley, Cheadle, Glasgow, London, Reading and Templecombe)

**Working Schedule**:37 hours per week (8 hours Monday - Thursday, 5 hours on a Friday)
- Are you passionate about business? Do you have an inquisitive mind? Do you have the drive and determination to succeed? Do you want to be part of a Graduate Programme that will develop, challenge and grow you? _If so, read on to see what Thales has on offer _

**What the role has to offer**:

- Working with the Business Growth Function leaders, developing and supporting the growth of new business to generate potential sales with our customers in both domestic and export markets. This will include working on and supporting competitive bids and developing skills in how to determine the value for the customer in the Thales offer
- Analysing and understanding Thales’ strengths and weaknesses against the competition in any of our markets
- Innovating and generating new ideas to address our customer/stakeholder/employee needs
- Developing high quality bid packs to achieve negotiating mandates from Thales senior management
- Producing high quality customer proposals
- Co-ordinating, analysing, forecasting and reporting information to support a number of activities including bid and peer reviews for both domestic and export opportunities
- Supporting the CEO and senior management teams with strategic political advice
- Working with the editorial team to develop and distribute content through a variety of on and off line channels
- Developing strategies to engage, involve and motivate employees to give their best
- Participating and contributing in major customer events and shows such as Paris Air Show and Defence & Security Exhibition International. This could be in a variety of ways, from meeting and greeting UK and International delegations of customers, briefing the media, creating content, managing our profile across social media before, during and after the event, or helping to host senior political figures.
- Developing your network across a broad range of customers and stakeholders

We are looking for talented, driven and self-motivated individuals to join our Business Growth team, to work across the following areas:
**Strategy and Marketing**

The Strategy and Marketing function delivers strategic direction to Thales UK’s pursuit for growth. As a team we are the intelligence centre for the “Go to Market” organisation, operating across all Thales UK markets. The Strategy and Marketing team offers a great variety of work and projects across all businesses with senior exposure. You’ll be creating and delivering analysis that has a real impact within the business through the management and delivery of long term projects and assignments. You’ll also have the opportunity, and early responsibility, to deliver work to senior stakeholders within the business.

**Sales and Business Development**

The Sales Function is responsible for winning new business across all Thales UK markets and across the entire breadth of Thales portfolio - in the past 3 years the team has won over £3.5billion of new business. The Sales and Business Development team offers an exciting, challenging and high profile role that includes a mix of customer facing sales and business development activity for both domestic and export sales as well as some back office sales support activity. The role will potentially involve both UK & overseas trips, so an appetite for travel is a must.

**Communications and Government Relations**

The Communications function creatively engages and influences customers, stakeholders, communities, markets and employees, enabling the business to achieve its strategic objectives and business priorities. Within our team, y