Solution Lead

weServed; Andover; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in Andover is seeking a Solution Lead to guide future defence support services. You will lead the design of operating models and integrated solutions across engineering, logistics and supply chain, aligning with customers and partners to deliver lasting national security outcomes.

The role is full-time with a 37-hour week and offers hybrid working arrangements, providing the chance to influence major transformation programmes in defence sectors.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or transforming complex defence support services.
• Ability to develop future-state operating models and service solutions.
• Proven ability to influence customers, suppliers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of future-state operating models for key defence programmes.
• Identify opportunities to improve service delivery through innovation and partnerships.
• Build relationships with customers, suppliers and alliance partners.
• Collaborate with engineering, logistics and supply chain teams to create integrated solutions.
• Create strategic solution documents and bid artefacts to enable growth.

Skills

Defence domain experience

Stakeholder management

Strategic solution design

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Degree in Engineering or related

Job description

Job Title: Solution Lead

Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75720

Shape the Future of Defence Support and Logistics

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 Solution Lead at our Andover site.

The role

As a Solution Lead, you'll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll sit at the forefront of strategic solution development, helping to shape how critical defence support services are delivered in the future. Working across complex stakeholder networks and strategic partnerships, you'll design innovative operating models and integrated service solutions that deliver long-term value for both our customers and the wider defence sector. This role offers the opportunity to influence major transformation programmes, collaborate with industry-leading experts and make a lasting impact on national security.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading the development of future-state operating models and integrated support solutions for key defence programmes.
• Conducting capability assessments and identifying opportunities to strengthen service delivery through innovation and strategic partnerships.
• Building collaborative relationships with customers, suppliers, alliance partners and senior stakeholders.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across engineering, logistics, asset management and supply chain functions to develop cohesive solutions.
• Developing strategic solution documentation, operating model designs and bid artefacts that support business growth and customer outcomes.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Solution Lead

• Experience designing, leading or transforming complex support services, logistics, engineering support or operational delivery models.
• Experience identifying capability gaps and developing future-state operating models and service solutions.
• Experience building and influencing relationships with customers, suppliers, alliance partners and senior stakeholders.
• Strong commercial and strategic awareness with experience supporting bids, business growth activities or large-scale transformation programmes.
• Experience bringing together multiple disciplines such as logistics, supply chain, engineering support, asset management or operational services into integrated customer-focused solutions.

Qualifications for the Solution Lead

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain, Business Management, Operations Management or a related discipline.
• Chartered professional status or equivalent professional accreditation – desirable
• Project or Programme Management qualification – desirable
• Professional qualification in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Asset Management or Systems Engineering – desirable
• Experience within defence, military support or government environments – 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 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.

Closing date: 15/10/2026