Business Support Specialist

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees support

10-days reservist leave

Holiday trading option

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International invites applications for a Business Support Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site. You will support senior leaders, coordinate governance activities and help prepare executive packs and briefing materials to aid strategic decision-making.

In this fast-paced role you will manage diaries, arrange travel, and maintain governance records while contributing to continuous improvement and leadership events. Strong MS Office and stakeholder skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting senior leaders in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to coordinate complex meetings and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Proven capability to produce professional reports and meeting packs.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating governance meetings, annual calendars, agendas and stakeholder attendance.
• Preparing governance packs, reports, presentations and briefing materials for senior leaders.
• Recording actions and decisions and maintaining trackers.
• Providing executive support including diary management and travel arrangements.
• Maintaining governance records and supporting leadership events.

Skills

Senior leaders support

Stakeholder management

Meeting coordination

Professional reporting

Confidential information handling

Power BI experience

Microsoft Office suite

Education

Business administration qualification

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Job description

As a Business Support Specialist, you'll play a key role within our Major Nuclear Capital Programmes business, supporting senior leaders and helping to coordinate governance activities across complex, high-profile infrastructure programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a growing business that delivers projects critical to the UK's nuclear enterprise and national security. Day-to-day, you'll provide professional business and executive support, ensuring that governance processes run smoothly, information is accurate and timely, and senior stakeholders have the support they need to make informed decisions. Working in a fast-paced environment, you'll gain valuable exposure to senior leadership while developing your organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Coordinating governance meetings, annual calendars, agendas and stakeholder attendance to support effective planning and delivery.
• Preparing high-quality governance packs, reports, presentations and briefing materials for senior leaders and committees.
• Recording actions and decisions, maintaining trackers and monitoring progress to ensure timely follow-up.
• Providing executive support through diary management, meeting coordination, travel arrangements and priority management.
• Maintaining accurate governance records while supporting leadership events, workshops and continuous improvement activities.

• Experience supporting senior leaders and executives within a fast-paced business environment.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex meetings and manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
• Experience producing professional reports, meeting packs, presentations and accurate meeting minutes.
• Strong organisational skills, written communication skills and the ability to manage confidential information.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Experience of governance, compliance, programme or project environments, along with Teams, SharePoint or Power BI, would be advantageous.

Qualifications for the Business Support Specialist We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. The following would be advantageous:

• Business administration, governance, project support or related professional qualifications.
• Relevant training in Microsoft Office, project coordination or governance disciplines.

Security Clearance The successful candidate must be 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).

Help keep critical programmes moving and support leaders shaping the future of UK defence infrastructure 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 Support Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site., 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.

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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• '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