Business Support Specialist

Babcock International; West Devon; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension & life assurance

Digital GP

Shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Business Support Specialist for its Devonport Royal Dockyard site in Plymouth. The role supports senior leaders, coordinates governance, and maintains accurate records to enable informed decisions in a fast-paced defence infrastructure environment.

You will manage diaries, meetings, travel, and briefing materials while collaborating with multiple stakeholders across major programmes. Strong MS Office skills and governance experience are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 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; governance, compliance, programme or project environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Governance coordination

Report writing

Calendar management

Education

Business administration

Microsoft Office training

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Power BI

Job description

Job Title: Business Support Specialist

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: From £33,900 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76212

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.

The role

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.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Business Support Specialist

• 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) .

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

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: 07/10/2026

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