Integrated Business Planning Lead

Babcock International; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and DigiCare+

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Integrated Business Planning Lead in Rosyth for a hybrid, full-time role. You will join the Planning Governance Team to unify strategic planning, workforce planning and operational delivery across Babcock Marine.

The role shapes how planning informs decisions across shipbuilding, maintenance and international growth programmes. You’ll drive governance, reporting cycles and tool development, influencing senior stakeholders and enabling improvements across multiple functions.

Qualifications

• Experience in integrated business planning and governance processes.
• Ability to develop and embed planning frameworks and reporting cycles.
• Strong knowledge of demand, capacity, workforce, financial or scenario planning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and embed integrated business planning processes and governance.
• Lead cross-functional planning forums for demand, workforce and capacity.
• Analyse planning data and produce forecasts and recommendations for leaders.
• Collaborate with Data & Analytics to shape digital planning tools.
• Support leaders to drive planning excellence and continuous improvement.

Skills

Integrated planning

Strategic planning

Operational planning

Workforce planning

Capacity planning

Stakeholder management

Data analytics tools

Job description

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Integrated Business Planning Lead

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Integrated Business Planning Lead

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76293

Shape the Future of Strategic Planning Across Babcock Marine.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Integrated Business Planning Lead at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

This is a unique opportunity to help establish and embed a new, sector-wide Integrated Business Planning capability across Babcock Marine. Working at the heart of a complex and dynamic business, you'll influence how strategic priorities, operational delivery, workforce capability, financial performance and growth opportunities come together to support critical defence and engineering programmes. This is a highly visible role where your work will directly support better decision-making, improve business performance and help shape the future of one of the UK's leading defence organisations.

The role

As an Integrated Business Planning Lead, you'll lead the development and implementation of a modern, digitally enabled planning framework across Babcock Marine. Joining the newly established Planning Governance Team, you'll play a key role in bringing together strategic planning, workforce planning, capacity planning and operational delivery into a single integrated approach.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing function at a formative stage, giving you the chance to influence processes, shape new digital planning tools and drive meaningful change across a diverse portfolio that includes shipbuilding, engineering, maintenance, in-service support and international growth programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Developing and embedding integrated business planning processes, governance frameworks and reporting cycles.
• Leading cross-functional planning forums that align business demand, workforce, capacity and operational requirements.
• Analysing planning data and producing reports, forecasts, scenarios and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Collaborating with Data & Analytics teams to shape and improve digital planning tools and solutions.
• Supporting leaders across Operations, Finance, Commercial and Business Growth functions to drive planning excellence and continuous improvement.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to other Babcock sites, including Bristol and Devonport, will be expected.

Essential experience of the Integrated Business Planning Lead:

• Proven experience in integrated business planning, strategic planning, operational planning, workforce planning, capacity planning or portfolio planning.
• Experience developing or implementing planning frameworks, governance processes and reporting cycles.
• Strong knowledge of demand, capacity, workforce, financial or scenario-planning methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior leaders across multiple functions.
• Experience using planning, reporting, performance management or data tools within a complex organisation.

Qualifications for the Integrated Business Planning Lead:

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. If you can demonstrate the required experience and a willingness to learn, we'd love to hear from you. Relevant qualifications or certifications in Lean, Continuous Improvement, Operational Excellence or Business Improvement would be advantageous.

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 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.