Competitive Intelligence Associate

Job Description

Job Title: Competitive Intelligence Associate

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak, all other BAE sites will be considered. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £44,000 dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Supports business development and capture activities through assessing defence market trends, identifies competitors’ products and derives competitors’ likely approaches and strategies for key growth opportunities

• Uses multiple information sources to gather a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data to create intelligence and understanding in support of capture and opportunity strategy decisions

• Analyses information, interprets and disseminates the resultant intelligence around the local or wider Business as appropriate

• Compiles marketing, product, and country plans for market and competitive intelligence perspective

• Provides detailed analytical skills and modelling, including what-if analysis, and identifying the “so what” and proposing ideas/actions/solutions

• Designs and implements a Competitive Intelligence capability for the business/sector, leading others to execute. This role provides the opportunity to define the processes, toolsets and ways of working

Your skills and experiences:

• Detailed Market & Competitive Analysis skills/knowledge/experience

• Experience in defence or has experience in similar technologically complex product environments

• Considerable analytical skills and attention to detail

• Experience of working in a business winning / bidding /growth environment

• Experience of operating within a customer environment

• Qualified to Degree standard or equivalent

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Can confidently brief Capture Teams in a professional and articulate manner

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with multiple deadlines and competing priorities, and respond to urgent requirements

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Maritime and Land BD Operations team:

This position is within the Maritime and Land BD Operations team that sits within Defence Solutions but supports the whole sector with business winning services. The role will work alongside a Price to Win expert within the team who is responsible for the Price to Win aspects.

The Flexible Working Statement:

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 7th October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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