BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.
Sales and Business Development Professional (Level 6 Degree Apprenticeship)
Start Date:
September 2025
Location:
Guildford or London
Role profile
Working alongside experienced sales professionals, as a Sales and Business Development Apprentice, you will benefit from learning in a broad range of markets, across a number of different customers and experiencing a wide variety of products and solutions.
The types of roles that you'll experience within the Digital Intelligence Sales community will include
Account Management, New Business Development, Pre-Sales/Technical
Sales
and
Bid Management,
where you will learn how to understand customer requirements, work with them to find a resolution and then close the sale.
Who are we looking for?
Highly motivated with a strong academic background in STEM subjects at A level or equivalent, this can be BTEC, Advanced Apprenticeship or Degree.
Entry Requirements
A minimum of 96 UCAS points gained via STEM A-Level qualifications or equivalent (eg. BTEC)
Plus at least 5 GCSEs at grade A*- C / Level 4-9, including Mathematics, English and ICT.
Eligible for a Government Security Clearance
What's in it for you?
Work-life balance is important; you'll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefits package the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
You'll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
Competitive starting salary ,
rising over the course of the programme
BSc (Hons) Professional Practice in Business to Business Sales
Security Clearance
Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Due to the nature of our, work successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance prior to starting with us. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance
What are the next steps?
CV Submission & Review
Digital Assessment
Live Interview
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. Click here for more information on national security vetting levels.
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we're working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds - the best and brightest minds - can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
Division overview: Capabilities
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.
As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.