Head of Health and Wellbeing

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global defense and engineering firm is looking for a Head of Health and Wellbeing to elevate their health initiatives into strategic business drivers. This full-time role involves defining global health strategies, partnering with regional teams, and influencing leadership. Candidates should demonstrate proven experience in health strategies within large organizations and the ability to shape behavioral changes using data. The position offers a hybrid work environment with competitive salary and benefits including a matched pension scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Flexible working options

Holiday Trading benefit

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading health and wellbeing strategies in a large, complex organization.
• Strong track record of using data and insights to measure business impact.
• Experience engaging and influencing executive-level stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver a global Health and Wellbeing strategy.
• Partner with regions to embed Health and Wellbeing into local plans.
• Influence senior leaders to integrate Health and Wellbeing into governance.

Skills

Leadership influence

Data-driven decision making

Cultural change management

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Location: Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

The role

As a Head of Health and Wellbeing, you’ll elevate Health and Wellbeing into a strategic business driver across Babcock’s culture, leadership behaviours and governance to improve performance, reduce risk and strengthen long‑term sustainability. This is meaningful work and what you deliver helps our teams who support international defence, aerospace and engineering projects to stay healthy, engaged and performing at their best.

Day-to-day, you’ll embed evidence‑based practices, leverage data and insights to demonstrate impact and build a resilient, inclusive environment where our people can thrive.

• Define and deliver a global Health and Wellbeing strategy, frameworks and programmes that drive measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with sectors and regional centres to embed Health and Wellbeing into local plans, leadership behaviours and operational decision‑making.
• Scan and apply emerging research, trends and best practice to inform strategy, innovate solutions and continuously improve outcomes.
• Influence and coach senior leaders to integrate Health and Wellbeing into performance, risk management and governance.
• Establish and oversee global KPIs, dashboards and reporting while managing occupational health and specialist support services and building capability across the global Health and Wellbeing community.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office, at Babcock sites within the UK and internationally, and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Head of Health and Wellbeing

• Proven experience leading Health and Wellbeing strategy at senior level within a large, complex, international organisation.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cultural and behavioural change through leadership influence and strategic programmes.
• Strong track record of using data, insights and evidence‑based approaches to shape interventions and measure business impact.
• Experience engaging, advising and influencing executive‑level stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
• Background in developing and overseeing large‑scale frameworks, governance and occupational health services

Qualifications for the Head of Health and Wellbeing

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.

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

• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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.