Business Winning

What will you do on the programme?

The Business Winning Graduate Programme offers a unique insight into the bid-winning work we deliver at Cavendish Nuclear. You’ll work closely with technical and commercial teams on tenders, helping to shape proposals from early strategic planning through to the delivery of a successful bid.

This is an exciting and varied programme. You’ll work alongside experienced Bid and Proposal Managers on live tenders, handling clarifications, preparing review packs, and keeping progress trackers on course. Being embedded in live projects will give you in-depth experience and build your confidence in managing bids from start to finish.

You’ll also gain insight into how our bid pipeline is managed, updating and tracking opportunities while contributing to continuous improvement activities that keep our processes efficient and effective.

Every placement offers something new to discover – whether collaborating with colleagues across the business, mastering the finer points of bid preparation, or seeing your work directly contribute to projects that make a real difference in clean energy, civil decommissioning, and national defence.

How is the programme structured?

Over two years, you’ll follow a mix of core and shorter placements designed to provide a complete view of the Business Winning lifecycle. Your main core placement will be within the Central Bids area in Bid and Proposal Management, typically lasting nine to twelve months. Another core placement will be with the Bid Services and Pipeline team, where you’ll learn how we maintain and update our pipeline and carry out weekly opportunity searches.

Alongside these, shorter placements may take you into areas such as Business Development, Estimating, Graphics, or Marketing. These rotations will broaden your skills and give you an appreciation of how different teams contribute to the bidding process. In some cases, you may work across more than one placement at a time, ensuring that by the end of the programme you have experienced the full process of turning opportunities into successful contracts.

How do we develop and support you?

From day one, you’ll receive structured support, personalised training, and dedicated mentorship to help you excel throughout your programme and beyond.

You’ll join our Graduate Development Programme, featuring expert-led masterclasses on communication, personal branding, resilience, and wellbeing.

Development and support

What’s waiting for you after the programme?

Upon completing the programme, you’ll transition into a permanent role within our Business Winning team. You’ll be ready to apply your knowledge and skills to securing projects that make a real difference – helping Cavendish Nuclear to clean up the UK’s nuclear legacy, enable secure energy supply and protect national interests, all while contributing to Babcock’s purpose of creating a safe and secure world, together.

From there, your development doesn’t stop. We’ll support you as you grow into more senior roles and take on greater responsibility. Through the Babcock Role Framework, you’ll have a clear view of how your career can progress, with mapped-out pathways, development opportunities and the tools you need to get wherever you want to go

What rewards and benefits will you get?

We want you to feel supported, valued and excited about what’s ahead. That’s why we offer a comprehensive package designed to support your development, your wellbeing and your life outside of work too.

Rewards and benefits

What do you need to apply?

A bachelor’s degree, ideally in a business-related subject.
Many of our graduate programmes are subject to Security Clearance and Trade Control restrictions which mean that your place of birth, nationality, citizenship, or residency you hold or have held may impact which programmes you are eligible for. For this programme, you must be able to achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) clearance. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Where will you be based?

Places on our Business Winning programme for Autumn 2026 are available at Cavendish Nuclear in Warrington.

Cavendish Nuclear

Cavendish Nuclear is a core part of Babcock International Group’s Nuclear Sector. We provide a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions across the markets of Clean Energy, Defence and Civil Decommissioning, both in the UK and internationally. From decommissioning redundant nuclear facilities, through supporting the Continuous at Sea Deterrent, to supporting the operation and build of nuclear power plants, our role in Cavendish Nuclear is to clean up the nuclear legacy and create a world where nuclear plays a key contribution in protecting our nation, ensuring security of energy supply and meeting our net zero commitments.

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Application guidance

Applications are reviewed in the order they are received, and if there’s a high level of interest in this programme, we may close applications earlier than advertised. To give yourself the best chance of being considered, we strongly recommend submitting your application and completing any required online assessments as soon as possible.