Business Development Lead (UK)
Delian Alliance Industries
Date: 17 hours ago
City: London, England
Contract type: Full time

About Delian
We live under a new world order. To protect Europe and its allies we're building a new defense prime. One tailored for the era of autonomous warfare.
While building for the future, our culture emulates the defense industry's roots: mass scale; operational excellence; execution speed; rapid technology adoption.
To strive for this we combine expertise in autonomy, electronic warfare and rapid manufacturing. Paired with young, passionate and mission driven engineering and technical talent.
We have offices in London & Athens.
Join us to spearhead business development (BD) in the UK, while working with our BD team in Greece on international opportunities. We’re committed to making Delian UK a pivotal part of the British defence landscape and you will be vital in making this happen.
This role is based in London.
In this role you'll get to
We live under a new world order. To protect Europe and its allies we're building a new defense prime. One tailored for the era of autonomous warfare.
While building for the future, our culture emulates the defense industry's roots: mass scale; operational excellence; execution speed; rapid technology adoption.
To strive for this we combine expertise in autonomy, electronic warfare and rapid manufacturing. Paired with young, passionate and mission driven engineering and technical talent.
We have offices in London & Athens.
Join us to spearhead business development (BD) in the UK, while working with our BD team in Greece on international opportunities. We’re committed to making Delian UK a pivotal part of the British defence landscape and you will be vital in making this happen.
This role is based in London.
In this role you'll get to
- Take ownership of our growth in the UK.
- Have significant autonomy in your work. You will shape our UK BD strategy and execution.
- Develop long term, trusted relations with end users to understand how we can best support them.
- Form partnerships that can help us win hugely ambitious opportunities.
- Feedback to our product and engineering team on how we can develop our roadmap for critical potential customers.
- Write bids.
- 5 years + experience closing complex, technical deals in defence, autonomy, or dual-use AI
- Exceptional storytelling and proposal writing for technical and executive audiences
- Technical experience is not required, but you must be able to understand our products in depth.
- You do not need a security clearance to apply, but you must be eligible for one after you join.
- Hands-on understanding of the British defence procurement process.
- National security background.
- Experience scaling BD teams or go-to-market playbooks in a high growth startup
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