Strategy Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Strategy Manager

Location: Bristol or Derby or London

Working Pattern: Full Time/Hybrid - Minimum 3 days a week on site

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a driven, curious and commercially minded individual to join our Corporate Strategy team in Bristol. Working closely with senior leadership, you will play a key role in shaping the strategic direction of our Defence business, providing insights and recommendations that influence important business decisions.

As a Strategy Manager, you will lead a diverse range of projects, including market assessments, portfolio analysis and competitive intelligence. You will tackle complex business challenges, identify opportunities for growth and help develop strategies that strengthen our competitive position in the global Aerospace and Defence industry.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world, leading innovation for over a century. We design, build, and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. As a force for progress, we power, protect, and connect people everywhere.

Within Defence, we are the second-largest global provider of defence aero-engine products and services, with more than 16,000 engines in service with 160 customers across 100 countries. Our engines power aircraft in every major sector, including transport, combat, patrol, training, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that have shaped our history continue into our future. We need people like you to join us on this journey. We provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.

What You Will Be Doing

As a Strategy Manager, you will be responsible for developing and delivering strategic insights that support business priorities, identify growth opportunities and inform key decisions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the development of business visions and strategies, ensuring alignment with wider Group and functional strategies.
• Conducting industry, market, customer, competitor, partner and supplier research to generate meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Applying structured analysis, commercial judgement and strategic thinking to solve complex business problems.
• Leading market assessments, portfolio analysis and competitive intelligence activities to inform strategic priorities.
• Identifying emerging opportunities, risks and competitive threats, and developing appropriate strategic responses.
• Driving communication and stakeholder engagement to support the development and implementation of business strategies.
• Preparing and presenting clear, evidence-based strategic recommendations to senior business leadership.

Who We're Looking For

At Rolls-Royce, we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple, and make a difference. These principles guide us and are an essential part of our assessment process.

To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills, commercial awareness and the ability to engage and influence stakeholders across the business.

You will also need to meet one of the following qualification and experience requirements:

• An Associate's degree with at least 7 years of business or finance experience.
• A Bachelor's degree with at least 5 years of business or finance experience.
• A Master's degree with at least 3 years of business or finance experience.
• A JD or PhD.
• At least 9 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce is committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Please be aware that priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.

This job is advertised at the grade shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

People Leader: Robert Grace

Grade: Level C

For further information, please contact: Josh McLachlan

Job Category

Global Strategy & Business Development

Posting Date

14 Oct 2026; 00:10

Posting End Date

22 Oct 2026

About Us

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.