Business Improvement Manager

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Life assurance

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Be Kind Day volunteering leave

Reservists leave

Development opportunities

Job summary

Babcock International seeks a Business Improvement Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site to drive transformation and continuous improvement across the organisation.

You will lead a team of improvement professionals, develop capability, and collaborate with leaders and stakeholders to deliver sustainable change that supports strategic objectives. The role offers hybrid working with two days on site.

Qualifications

• Leading and developing professional teams, including performance and people management.
• Coaching and mentoring individuals to develop capability and support progression.
• Delivering business improvement, transformation or organisational change programmes.
• Building effective stakeholder relationships and influencing at all levels of an organisation.
• Managing resources, priorities and performance within a complex operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Leading, supporting and developing Business Improvement professionals across project management, change management, business analysis and Lean disciplines.
• Coaching and mentoring team members to build capability and support career development.
• Delivering business improvement and transformation initiatives that support strategic objectives.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to identify opportunities, solve business challenges and implement sustainable change.
• Managing resources, priorities and performance to ensure successful delivery of improvement activities.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Change management

Stakeholder mgmt

Lean

Education

Degree-level qualification

Tools

PMO practices

Job description

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 Business Improvement Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site., As a Business Improvement Manager, you'll play a pivotal role within the Devonport Transformation function, helping to drive continuous improvement and business transformation across the organisation. Working with leaders, programme teams and stakeholders, you'll identify opportunities to improve performance, develop organisational capability and deliver sustainable change that supports strategic and operational objectives. Day-to-day, you'll have an exciting opportunity to lead a team of business improvement specialists while directly influencing major transformation initiatives. You'll combine leadership, coaching and delivery expertise to improve ways of working, solve complex business challenges and contribute to programmes that support the UK's defence sector. In return, you'll have the opportunity to broaden your leadership experience, develop transformation capabilities and make a lasting impact across the business.

• Leading, supporting and developing Business Improvement professionals across project management, change management, business analysis and Lean disciplines.
• Coaching and mentoring team members to build capability and support career development.
• Delivering business improvement and transformation initiatives that support strategic objectives.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to identify opportunities, solve business challenges and implement sustainable change.
• Managing resources, priorities and performance to ensure successful delivery of improvement activities.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum onsite presence of two days per week.

Essential experience of the Business Improvement Manager

• Leading and developing professional teams, including performance and people management.
• Coaching and mentoring individuals to develop capability and support progression.
• Delivering business improvement, transformation or organisational change programmes.
• Building effective stakeholder relationships and influencing at all levels of an organisation.
• Managing resources, priorities and performance within a complex operational environment.

Qualifications for the Business Improvement Manager Essential:

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline, or equivalent career-based knowledge and experience.
• Demonstrable expertise within a recognised business improvement discipline.

Desirable:

• Association for Project Management qualification.
• Change Management Practitioner qualification.
• Business Analysis Practitioner qualification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
• Leadership qualification or equivalent leadership development.

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.

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.

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.