Business Change Manager

Nuclearinst; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & wellness benefits

Employee share scheme

Flexible/ hybrid working options

Job summary

Babcock is recruiting a Business Change Manager to deliver transformation across Naval Nuclear programmes at HMNB Clyde, Helensburgh. You will lead change initiatives, engage leaders, manage readiness activities and ensure sustainable adoption of new ways of working in a security‑critical environment.

The role requires Prosci certification, strong change governance, and collaboration with multi‑disciplinary teams to achieve strategic objectives and benefits realization.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering business change or transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of change management methodologies and best practice.
• Experience developing business readiness and adoption plans.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across multiple levels.
• Facilitating workshops and change engagement activities.

Responsibilities

• Develop change management and business readiness plans for transformation.
• Engage with leaders and stakeholders to build commitment and adoption of change.
• Facilitate workshops, impact assessments and engagement activities.
• Assess impacts, risks and dependencies and implement mitigations.
• Support benefits delivery via effective communication and continuous improvement.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Workshop facilitation

Risk & issues management

Programme transformation

Education

Prosci Change Practitioner (Level 5)

APMG Change Management (Level 5)

Job description

Job Title: Business Change Manager

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute

Compensation: £57,000 - £71,500 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75711

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Manager at HMNB Clyde in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

The role

As a Business Change Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering transformation across the Naval Nuclear sector. This is an opportunity to influence how people, teams and organisations successfully adapt to change, ensuring that major programmes deliver lasting benefits and achieve their strategic objectives.

Day-to-day, you’ll help leaders and teams embrace new capabilities, processes and ways of working. You'll combine stakeholder engagement, business readiness and change management expertise to drive successful adoption and embed sustainable change. In return, you'll gain exposure to high-profile transformation programmes that directly support national defence and security, while developing your own leadership, consulting and change management capabilities.

• Developing and implementing change management and business readiness plans that support organisational transformation.
• Engaging with leaders, managers and stakeholders to build commitment, understanding and adoption of change.
• Facilitating workshops, impact assessments and engagement activities to support successful programme delivery.
• Assessing change impacts, risks and dependencies and implementing mitigation strategies where required.
• Supporting the delivery of transformation benefits through effective communication, behavioural change and continuous improvement.

This role is full time, and is based on site at HMNB Clyde, in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

Essential experience of the Business Change Manager

• Experience delivering complex business change, transformation or organisational change programmes.
• Strong knowledge of change management methodologies, tools, frameworks and best practice.
• Experience developing and implementing business readiness and change adoption plans.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing and relationship-building skills across multiple organisational levels.
• Experience facilitating workshops, impact assessments and change engagement activities while managing change-related risks and issues.

Qualifications for the Business Change Manager

Essential

• Prosci Certified Change Practitioner qualification (or equivalent Level 5 qualification).

Preferred

• APMG Change Management qualification (or equivalent Level 5 qualification).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident, committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 08/09/2026

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