Senior Programme Manager

Babcock International; Torpoint; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Senior Programme Manager to lead a major defence-focused programme from inception to benefits realisation. You will oversee governance, commercial performance and delivery outcomes within a complex organisation.

You will engage senior stakeholders, drive cross-workstream alignment and embed best practices in MSP/PRINCE2/Agile methodologies, with SC security clearance as a requirement.

Qualifications

• MSP or equivalent programme leadership experience.
• Experience leading multiple integrated workstreams and managing stakeholder complexity.
• Ability to achieve SC security clearance.
• Strong governance, financial and risk management capabilities.
• Experience with MSP, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of a major programme from set-up through to benefits realisation and closure.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, budgets and reporting at programme level.
• Engage and influence senior leaders, delivery partners and external stakeholders.
• Shape programme vision, blueprint and delivery strategy, ensuring alignment across wider portfolios.
• Drive continuous improvement and embed best practice in programme management.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Governance

Risk management

Commercial awareness

Communication

Influencing

Agile

MSP experience

Education

MSP certification

Job description

As a Senior Programme Manager, you'll play a pivotal leadership role in shaping future capability, capacity and resilience across one of Europe's most strategically important defence sites. This is a rare opportunity to lead a complex, high-profile programme that will deliver lasting operational and business benefits whilst supporting critical national infrastructure.

This is not a traditional programme management role focused solely on plans, schedules and reporting. We are looking for a senior leader who is accountable for programme outcomes, integration, governance, change adoption, commercial performance and successful delivery.

Lead the delivery of a major programme from set-up through to benefits realisation and closure. Leading programmes relating to building construction and / or logistics transformation is desirable.

Shape programme vision, blueprint and delivery strategy, ensuring alignment across wider portfolios.

Manage risks, issues, dependencies, budgets and reporting at programme level.

Engage and influence senior leaders, delivery partners and external stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and coordinated activity.

Drive continuous improvement, embedding best practice in programme and project management.

Proven experience operating as a Senior Programme Manager within a complex organisation.

Demonstrable experience leading multiple integrated workstreams and managing significant stakeholder complexity.

Strong governance, commercial, financial and risk management capabilities.

Ability to influence, challenge and engage senior stakeholders to achieve successful programme outcomes.

Strong knowledge of programme and project management methodologies such as MSP, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent.

Qualifications for the Programme Manager

MSP or recent experience operating in a similar programme leadership context.

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

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 ( .

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