SHEP Marine Business Support Lead

Babcock International; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking a Business Support Lead to provide professional administrative support to the SHEP Director and team. This remote role involves diary management, event coordination, and production of reports. Candidates should have recent experience in a similar position and proficiency in MS Office. Competitive benefits include a generous holiday allowance and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Recent and relevant experience in a similar role.
• Ability to plan meetings and coordinate events.
• Conversant with MS Office suite needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the SHEP team.
• Coordinate SHEP campaigns and manage inbox/es.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and manage diaries.

Skills

Diary management

Event management

MS Office suite

Procurement

Education

PowerPoint training

Excel intermediate training

Minute taking training

Job description

Job Title: Business Support Lead
Location: Remote with some travels to Rosyth
Compensation: £35,868- £41,076 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66387

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 Business Support Lead within the Marine Sector.

The role
As a Business Support Lead you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide professional administrative support to The SHEP Director and wider SHEP marine team. Including the administration and coordination of reporting, events and day-to-day administration and coordination of the wider department and its activities.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide administrative support to coordinate the SHEP team’s activities, including the preparation of monthly reports, materials for meetings and presentations, plan and coordinate group/marine SHEP campaigns and events, and provide administrative support to senior members of the SHEP Marine Team in all aspects of their work.

• Assist with: production of the Monthly Meeting, SHEP Marine Pack & Monthly SHEP performance bulletin.
• Coordination of TBTs and SHEP Alerts
• Purchasing - Raise and receipt requisitions
• Inbox / Diary management for SHEP Director and Marine SHEP inbox.
• Arrange SHEP Inductions for new leadership roles.
• And any other reasonable request from the SHEP Director.

Please note that this position is remote and requires occasional travel to Rosyth as required.

This role is full time.

Essential experience of Business Support Lead

• Recent and relevant experience in a similar role.
• Diary management – Planning meetings
• Event management – SHEP Campaigns
• Conversant with MS Office suite
• Procurement – Raising purchase orders

Qualifications for the Business Support Lead

• Powerpoint training – Desirable
• Excel intermediate training – Desirable
• Minute taking training – Desirable

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 [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.

Closing date: 11/08/2025