Contract Manager

Babcock International; Llanfair-yn-Neubwll; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists paid leave

Holiday Trading window Feb–Mar

Be Kind Day paid leave

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Contract Manager for RAF Valley, Anglesey, to lead the Hawk contract's operational delivery. You will manage safety, performance, and profitability while coordinating with stakeholders and ensuring governance compliance.

The role requires senior leadership experience in regulated environments, with focus on delivering against performance targets and developing teams. Hybrid, full-time, 40 hours weekly, requires SC clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex contracts in regulated environments.
• Strong leadership for multidisciplinary teams and performance delivery.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasting and commercial objectives.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholder relationships and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe, effective and profitable delivery of the Hawk contract.
• Manage contract financial performance including budgets, forecasting and P&L.
• Build strong customer and stakeholder relationships; represent at reviews.
• Drive performance, improvements and corrective actions where needed.
• Develop and lead operational teams with a culture of accountability and safety.

Skills

Operational contract delivery

Financial performance management

Stakeholder management

Leadership of multidisciplinary teams

Compliance and governance

Education

Professional management or leadership qualifications

Job description

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Contract Manager at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey. Based within our Aviation business, you'll help deliver critical flying training capability that supports the UK's Armed Forces and contributes directly to national security., As a Contract Manager, you'll take ownership of the operational delivery of the Hawk contract at RAF Valley. This is a senior leadership opportunity where you'll be responsible for ensuring the safe, effective and profitable delivery of a complex aviation contract while meeting customer expectations, operational performance objectives and financial targets. This role offers the chance to work at the heart of military aviation, leading high-performing operational teams and building trusted relationships with key stakeholders. You'll play a pivotal role in driving continuous improvement, developing people and ensuring the successful delivery of a contract that supports vital defence training operations. Along the way, you'll further develop your leadership, commercial and operational management expertise within a globally recognised engineering and defence organisation. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading the safe, effective and profitable delivery of the Hawk contract, ensuring contractual and operational commitments are achieved.
• Managing contract financial performance, including budgets, forecasting, cost control and profit and loss accountability.
• Building strong customer and stakeholder relationships and representing the contract at key performance reviews.
• Driving operational performance, continuous improvement initiatives and corrective actions where required.
• Developing and leading operational teams, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration and safety-first thinking.

This role full time, 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working patterns are available.

• Experience managing complex operational contracts, programmes or service delivery environments.
• Strong operational leadership experience, including leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering against performance targets.
• Experience managing financial performance, budgets, forecasting and commercial objectives.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments with a strong focus on compliance and governance.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and relationship-building skills., Professional management or leadership qualifications.
• Military aviation, defence or flying training experience.
• Knowledge of aircraft maintenance, engineering support or operational delivery models.
• Experience working with Ministry of Defence customers or military regulatory organisations.

Security Clearance The successful candidate must be 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 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