Transformation Delivery Manager

Babcock International; Penton Mewsey; 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 savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday Trading window (Feb–Mar)

Be Kind Day volunteering leave

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Transformation Delivery Manager for its Andover site, with hybrid working and a 37-hour week. You will drive business transformation, operational improvement and strategic growth initiatives across the Land sector, delivering high-quality business cases and executive-level reports.

The role requires SC clearance, experience with governance and risk management, and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering business transformation or strategic change within a complex organisation.
• Strong governance, risk and milestone management skills.
• Ability to produce executive-level presentations and business cases.

Responsibilities

• Deliver transformation initiatives driving strategic change and service excellence.
• Coordinate and monitor projects against timelines, budgets and benefits.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and cross-functional collaboration.
• Develop operating models and transformation strategies for customer solutions.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Change management

Analytical thinking

Prioritisation

Education

APM/PRINCE2/MSP certifications

Prosci/APMG Change Management qualification

Job description

As a Transformation Delivery Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in driving business transformation, operational improvement and strategic growth initiatives across our Land sector. This is an exciting opportunity to influence how services are delivered today while helping to shape future operating models, transformation strategies and customer solutions. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Deliver business transformation initiatives that drive strategic change, operational improvement and service excellence.
• Coordinate and monitor transformation projects, ensuring delivery against agreed timelines, budgets, benefits and governance requirements.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and cross-functional collaboration to identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement.
• Produce high-quality business cases, reports, implementation plans and executive-level presentations to support decision-making.
• Support future growth by developing operating models, transformation strategies, customer proposals and integrated service solutions.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at Andover with hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Transformation Delivery Manager

• Experience delivering business transformation, operational improvement or strategic change programmes within a complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of project management and change management principles, including governance, risk and milestone management.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and build relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience producing business cases, reports and executive-level presentations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively within fast-paced, collaborative environments

Qualifications for the Transformation Delivery Manager

• Professional Project Management qualification such as APM, PRINCE2, MSP, or an equivalent recognised certification.
• Change Management qualification such as Prosci, APMG Change Management, or a similar recognised accreditation
• Experience supporting business development, bids, campaigns, capture activities or customer proposal development.
• Knowledge of the UK Defence sector, Ministry of Defence environments, Defence Equipment and Support, asset management or fleet management is desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Shape the future of transformation and innovation across defence, engineering and critical infrastructure

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 Transformation Delivery Manager at our Andover site.

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.

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