Senior Business Planning Manager - Org Capability

Babcock International; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor based in Plymouth is seeking a Senior Business Planning Manager to manage operational improvements and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid work environment. The role requires strong programme management skills, the ability to synthesize data into insights, and a degree in a relevant field. Competitive compensation including company car, bonus, and healthcare is offered.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ volunteering leave

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in programme management with cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels.
• Strong analytical skills to translate data into insights.
• Experience managing competing priorities and meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage Integrated Business Planning Change programme.
• Align with business goals and execute across workstreams.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and maintain communication.
• Oversee planning and resource coordination.

Skills

Programme management expertise

Strong leadership skills

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical abilities

Effective communication

Ability to manage competing priorities

Education

Degree level in a relevant discipline

Job description

Job Title: Senior Business Planning Manager – Organisational Capability

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive including company car, bonus and healthcare

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 65854

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 Senior Business Planning Manager at the Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth.

The role

As a Senior Business Planning Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Devonport has a unique opportunity to modernise its infrastructure, systems, and capabilities to meet current and future defence needs. With increasing complexity across the site, it's essential that operations are integrated and focused on delivering this transformation. Babcock is evolving how it operates at Devonport through enhanced Governance, Business Planning, Decision Making, Capability Development, and Strategy Execution.

We’re seeking a senior leader passionate about driving operational improvement to secure a stronger future for our customers and stakeholders.

Day-to-day, you'llmanage the Integrated Business Planning Change programme, ensuring alignment with the One Babcock way of working across all phases of the programme lifecycle, from definition and delivery to governance, reporting, and benefits realisation. You'll work closely with senior internal leaders and Ministry of Defence stakeholders to bridge long-, medium-, and short-term demand and supply, identifying gaps and driving coordinated solutions. This highly collaborative role requires building trusted relationships to enable seamless information flow and integrated planning that meets both business and customer objectives.

• Operationalise programme delivery roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and effective execution across workstreams.
• Establish and manage programme structure, governance, and processes using company standards and MSP methodology.
• Lead stakeholder engagement, maintaining clear, consistent communication with business, customer, and programme stakeholders.
• Drive collaboration and ownership, fostering a culture of success and accountability across the programme team.
• Oversee planning and resource coordination, ensuring timely availability of skills and resolving risks and issues proactively.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Business Planning Manager

• Proven expertise in programme management, with a track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives to successful outcomes.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence, collaborate, and communicate effectively at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Excellent analytical and presentation abilities, capable of synthesising complex data into clear, actionable insights tailored to senior audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, working independently and across teams to deliver under pressure and meet multiple deadlines.

Qualifications for the Senior Business Planning Manager

We welcome applications from all industries and backgrounds; defence experience would be of benefit however not an essential requirement.

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent suitable experience.
• Extensive experience in a similar business role.

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 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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.

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