Lead Business Improvement Specialist

Job Title:              Lead Business Improvement Specialist
Location:              Plymouth Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    £58,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF58349

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 Lead Business Improvement Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Lead Business Improvement Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll form a key role within an energetic and diverse team working to challenging timescales to deliver transformation projects/programmes in different functions and sectors across defence in the UK.  

Day-to-day, you’ll have a business change and transformation focus with overall responsibility for determining the benefits to the project/programme, assessing progress towards project/programme outcomes. 

• Ensuring the organisation has identified required change/transformation opportunities and planned for successful implementation and sustainment.
• Development and application of an appropriate benefits realisation strategy and plan, ongoing governance and associated reporting/communications, making sure the benefits are owned and achievable.
• Working with business areas to prepare the transition to new ways of working, leading the transition and ensuring that changes are integrated. 
• Interacting with a range of stakeholders in the business and customer organisation across multiple MOD departments, to ensure that the project/programme achieves its goals, and the benefits are delivered, owned, realised, and sustained. 
• Responsible for drawing upon specialised depth and breadth of expertise to undertake complex assignments and provide technical leadership and direction to junior roles.

This role is full time, 35, hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Lead Business Improvement Specialist

• Effective communication and engagement skills to sell and communicate the project/programme vision to all stakeholders.
• Knowledge of business change techniques such as business process modelling and gap analysis; benefits mapping, benefit profile creation and organisational change models such as Kotter’s, Lewin’s, 7-S Model, nudge theory etc.
• Highly skilled in programme management (preferable MSP) and the delivery of significant business change.
• Experience of defining and leading complex change programmes and possess strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate.
• Ability to pull together complex information and present it in a coherent manner and at the appropriate level for the audience. Refining and summarising information for senior management. Good presentation skills, ability to influence and articulate arguments.

Qualifications for the Lead Business Improvement Specialist

• Ideally a Bachelor's degree in either Engineering/Project/Business and Leadership or relevant experience
• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)
• APMG or PROSCI Change Management Certification
• Project Risk Management Course - 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 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 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: 12/09/2024

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