Business Improvement Manager

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Payment of professional fees

10 days special paid leave for Reserv|

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Wellbeing programme

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Business Improvement Manager at its Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth. The role in the Devonport Transformation function focuses on driving continuous improvement, delivering sustainable change, and shaping performance across the organisation.

You will lead a team of BI professionals, coach staff, and work with stakeholders to implement major transformation initiatives, with hybrid working and a two-day onsite minimum requirement.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Demonstrable expertise within a recognised business improvement discipline.
• Strong leadership and people-management skills.
• Experience delivering business transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of business improvement specialists across project management, change management, business analysis and Lean disciplines.
• Coach and mentor team members to build capability and support career development.
• Deliver business improvement and transformation initiatives that support strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities, solve business challenges and implement sustainable change.
• Manage resources, priorities and performance to ensure successful delivery of improvement activities.

Job description

Job Title: Business Improvement Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £57,300 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76285

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.

The role

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.

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 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.

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: 08/10/2026

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