Director of Satellite & Defence - Oxford

Sales
Ref: 124 Date Posted: Wednesday 12 Nov 2025

As Director, you’ll shape and deliver their defence and security strategy, build relationships across the space sector, help the space sector supply to defence customers, lead a small team, across matrixed functions to deliver outcomes and support the UK space sector to accelerate supply to defence.

Responsibilities

  • Refine and execute their defence and security strategy
  • Drive partnerships and build a pipeline of opportunities
  • Lead a small team and matrix teams to deliver projects
  • Ensure delivery of defence and security-related activities
  • Lead high level customer engagement
  • Drive development of space sector capabilities to meet defence
  • Manage budgets and ensure sustainable growth
  • Monitor progress against milestones and KPIs

Qualifications

  • Knowledge of space UK defence
  • Experience of developing an organisation to meet the needs of the defence sector
  • Track record of business development, including demand creation, pipeline management and securing contracts.
  • Understanding of procurement.

Required

  • Leadership, influencing and communications skills that fit culturally
  • Able to horizon scan emerging technologies
  • Deliver clear routes to revenue and measurable impact

Preferred Skills

  • Experience of working with or within a defence and security organisation or agency.
  • Understanding of dual use technologies and their role in UK resilience.
  • Security Clearance, or eligibility to obtain clearance.

Package £95k - £110k

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