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# Business Development Manager at Janes

- **Company:** Janes
- **Location:** Italy
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/janes/jobs/4753341101?gh_jid=4753341101

## Job description

Janes equips defense, government, and industry leaders with objective, accurate, and shareable data and analysis. Our experts combine advanced technology with proven tradecraft to deliver validated and contextual intelligence to assess threats, accelerate decisions, and anticipate change with confidence. We deliver our intelligence with the flexibility to fuse it with multiple sources in any system, enrich AI solutions, or access it through our portal.

Job purpose:

This is an engaging and impactful role supporting the Southern Europe and Israel territory (SE&I) as a solution‑focused Business Development Manager, based in Italy. The position centres on working collaboratively with customers across Government - including Defence and the National Security community - as well as private defence industry and commercial organisations selling data-centric intelligence products and services to customers where tracking geopolitical and geoeconomic risk matters. With our help, customers can use their scarce resource more effectively, to get to better decisions with higher confidence, more quickly. We support decision advantage for our customers.

In this Individual Contributor role you will be part of a small, supportive team of Janes colleagues within SE&I, and will work closely with the wider European Team. Your focus will be to identify opportunities, build relationships, and develop meaningful business development plans that support sustainable revenue growth in line with personal and regional goals.

The Business Development Manager’s core purpose is to renew existing business in the SE&I territory and build a healthy sales pipeline that contributes to Janes’ continued growth within Defence and National Security environments.

How you will contribute at Janes:

- Build trusted, long‑term relationships with key decision‑makers, influencers, and stakeholders across your accounts.
- Engage confidently with senior stakeholders - internally and externally- to create positive, collaborative partnerships.
- Understand individual customer needs and translate them into tailored solutions that reflect Janes’ Value Proposition.
- Apply Janes’ Sales Methodology and processes to manage your pipeline, support accurate forecasting, and contribute to account growth.
- Work closely with colleagues across Business Development, Customer Success, Product, Marketing, and Demand Generation to identify new opportunities, deliver effective lead‑generation plans and identify opportunities to grow accounts through upselling and cross‑selling.

The required skills and experience for this role are:

- Experience in sales or business development, ideally within SE&I Government, Defence, or National Security organisations.
- Strong knowledge or networks within Defence and National Security sectors.
- Understanding of the SE&I geopolitical risk landscape and the role of open-source intelligence in meeting customer requirements.
- Familiarity with the typical challenges faced by analysts in Defence and National Security environments.
- Understanding of SE&I Defence budgeting and procurement processes.
- Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills, with an organised, adaptable and positive approach.
- Ability to understand and communicate Janes’ value proposition.
- Fluent in both Italian and English, (Spanish advantageous).
- Security Clearance a distinct advantage.

This is a remote role for candidates based in Rome or the surrounding area. The role involves regular travel to client sites (approximately 50% of the time), so a valid driving licence and regular access to a car are essential.

## Benefits

- 27 days of annual leave
- Healthy half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)
- Leave- study/ volunteer/ reserve forces
- Pension scheme
- Learning & Development opportunities (LinkedIn Learning, Mentoring, Internal courses etc.)

Salary range: €65,000–€80,000 gross per annum, plus commission and a comprehensive benefits package.

The final offer will be determined based on the successful candidate's skills, experience, market data and overall suitability for the role. Janes is committed to fair and transparent pay practices. Compensation decisions are based on objective criteria, including the requirements of the role, relevant experience, skills, market benchmarks and internal equity.

If this sounds like a role where you could make an impact, we’d love to hear from you. Even if you’re not sure you meet every requirement, your experience may be a great fit - we value capability, curiosity, and a willingness to learn.

*Please note that CVs must be submitted in English

Life at Janes

We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.

Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.

Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believed that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this.  We will always consider part time or flexible applications

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## About Janes

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Defence & national security intelligence, aerospace, transportation, open-source intelligence (OSINT)
- **Target customers**: Government defence ministries, military organisations, intelligence agencies, aerospace & defence contractors, security analysts
- **Mission**: To improve defence and national security through validated intelligence

## Products & Services
- **Janes Intelligence Platform**: A technology platform delivering validated, contextual intelligence to assess threats, accelerate decisions, and anticipate change. Includes data feeds, analytics, and mission workflow tools.
- **Janes Defence News & Periodicals**: Renowned publications such as *Jane's Defence Weekly*, *Jane's Intelligence Review*, *Jane's International Defence Review*, and *Jane's Navy International*.
- **Reference Books & Databases**: Annual authoritative references including *Jane's Fighting Ships*, *Jane's All the World's Aircraft*, *Jane's World Air Forces*, *Jane's World Navies*, *Jane's World Railways*, and *Jane's Military Communications*.
- **Forecasts & Budgets**: Market forecasting and budget analysis for defence programmes.
- **RWR Advisory Group (acquired 2022)**: Adds Washington, D.C.-based expertise in defence and security advisory.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly available; notable recent contract: £17.5 million enterprise agreement with UK Ministry of Defence [janes.com](https://www.janes.com/company/careers-with-janes)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Owned by Montagu Private Equity (since 2019). Key partners include UK MoD, Seerist (strategic partnership announced May 2026).
- **Growth Signals**: Appointment of Randy Nixon as U.S. President (2026); strategic partnership with Seerist to revolutionise real-time military intelligence; SBTi-validated emissions reduction targets; global team across 16 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Heritage & Trust**: Over 125 years of authority in defence intelligence; the de facto public source for military systems information.
- **Validated Open-Source Intelligence**: Combines expert tradecraft with advanced technology to deliver curated, contextualised data.
- **Global Reach & Domain Expertise**: Analysts and subject-matter experts worldwide, covering air, land, sea, space, and cybersecurity.
- **Government Relationships**: Long-standing contracts with major defence ministries (e.g., UK MoD, U.S. DoD).

## Strategic Focus
- **Technology Integration**: Accelerating digital transformation of intelligence platforms to support mission-critical workflows.
- **U.S. Expansion**: Strengthening presence in the American defence market under new U.S. President.
- **Partnership Ecosystem**: Collaborating with complementary intelligence and technology providers (e.g., Seerist) to enhance real-time capabilities.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to reducing scope 1 & 2 emissions by 42% by 2030 (SBTi validated) and measuring scope 3.

## Why Work Here
- **Purpose-Driven Mission**: Employees contribute directly to global defence and national security through validated intelligence.
- **Global & Inclusive Culture**: Diverse team across 16 countries; commitment to bias-free hiring, wellbeing, and inclusion forums (“Our Story”).
- **Hybrid & Flexible Work**: Roles available as hybrid, remote, or onsite across offices in Croydon, Bengaluru, Arlington (VA), and the Netherlands.
- **Growth & Development**: Internal mentoring programme, cross-team initiatives, and a culture where colleagues are encouraged to “be your own CEO.”
- **Values-Led Environment**: Core values – *The Customer is Our Compass*, *We Win Together*, *Engage Fearlessly*, *Results Matter*, *Give Joy* – guide everyday behaviour.
- **Environmental Commitment**: SBTi-validated climate targets and an active Janes Engagement Team (JET) shaping the people agenda.

## Sources
1. [janes.com – Careers with Janes](https://www.janes.com/company/careers-with-janes)
2. [janes.com – Company](https://www.janes.com/company)
3. [janes.com – Life at Janes](https://www.janes.com/company/life-at-janes)
4. [janes.com – Jobs](https://www.janes.com/company/careers-with-janes/jobs)
5. [wikipedia.org – Janes Information Services](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janes_Information_Services)

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