Transformation Programme Manager

Location:

Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Transformation Programme Manager

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 69660

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 Programme Manager across our Ashton Vale, Bristol and Devonport, Plymouth sites.

The Role

As a Transformation Programme Manager, you’ll take a leading role within our Mission Systems business, driving complex business change across a highly regulated, engineering‑led environment. This is a high‑profile opportunity to shape how our organisation operates as we deliver a major SAP migration programme, forming part of a wider, enterprise‑level transformation.

You’ll lead teams through periods of change, aligning stakeholders around a shared vision and ensuring delivery against cost, time and quality commitments. Your work will directly support operational effectiveness, business growth and long‑term sustainability while developing your own leadership capability, strategic insight and programme delivery expertise at scale.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

Leading end‑to‑end delivery of a complex SAP transformation programme across multiple business units
Driving business change initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and operational priorities
Managing multiple interdependencies, risks and resources to maintain momentum and delivery focus
Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across a matrix organisationE
mbedding strong governance, project controls and performance reporting throughout the programme

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Transformation Programme Manager

Proven experience delivering complex transformation or change programmes in regulated or engineering‑led environmentsStrong background in IT, technical or business change, including ERP deployment experience
Demonstrated expertise in waterfall project delivery, with Agile experience advantageous
Confident senior stakeholder engagement and influence at programme level
Experience leading teams directly and within a matrix structure

Qualifications for the Transformation Programme Manager

Recognised project or programme management qualification such as APM PMQ, Agile Practitioner or equivalent
Chartered Project Manager status or similar professional accreditation is advantageous

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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
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
Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
Employee share scheme

Babcock International

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.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 12/05/2026

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