Business Change Manager, Source to Pay

Babcock; Camberley; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an S2P Business Change Manager to lead significant changes in their Supply Chain function. The role requires expertise in change methodologies, excellent stakeholder management skills, and qualifications in change and project management. The position offers competitive compensation and benefits, with a strong emphasis on collaboration across departments.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of change methodologies and their application needed.
• Ability to communicate the value of change for stakeholders.
• Create a change-ready organisational culture.

Responsibilities

• Provide business change expertise for the S2P Programme.
• Oversee stakeholder engagement and define metrics for change.
• Manage change delivery and track benefits realisation.

Skills

Change methodologies

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Risk management

Education

Change practitioner qualification

Project management qualification (preferably APM)

Job description

Job Title: S2P Business Change Manager - Source to Pay

Location: Frimley, Portsmouth, Glasgow, Preston or Bristol. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £67,800 depending on experience plus executive benefits package

What you'll be doing:

• Providing business change expertise in delivering the S2P Programme which is a complex business change to improve efficiency, productivity and overall performance of the Supply Chain function and organisation
• Working alongside project and programme leaders, as well as support functions including HR and finance to implement change
• Overseeing engagement with multiple stakeholder groups to clearly articulate the existing landscape, including the design and delivery or workshops to understand and define the scope of change, and to define the metrics and sustainment levers
• Selecting methods and tools, using iterative techniques where appropriate, ensuring that effective project control, change control, risk management and testing processes are maintained (as appropriate to the change)
• Lead & manage the business change to ensure successful outcomes with agreed internal stakeholders
• Incorporating and managing business change delivery elements into the project/programme and tracking and reporting the business benefit realisation

Your skills and experiences:

• Deep understanding of range of change methodologies, and their application
• Deep understanding of the factors that influence successful outcomes and sustainment of change
• Ability to evidence and communicate the value of change for a range of stakeholder groups
• Ability to create an organisation environment and culture that is change-ready and change-capable
• Change practitioner qualification
• Project management and project control qualification, preferably APM

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 Business Change team:

The Source to Pay (S2P) Project is a strategic Transformation Project for the Supply Chain Function.

In this fantastic high-profile role, you will make a significant contribution to the ways of working and standardisation of how change is approached across the client areas. To implement change, you will collaborate with project and program leaders as well as support departments like finance and HR giving you great exposure globally.

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: 18th June 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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