Integrated Readiness Solution Lead

Job Title:                      Integrated Readiness Solution Lead

Location:                      Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF75721

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Integrated Readiness Solution Lead at our Andover site.

The role

As an Integrated Readiness Solution Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in one of the UK's most significant defence transformation programmes. Working at the heart of the Logistics Information and Operational Support (LIOS) programme, you'll help define how asset management, logistics, engineering, maintenance, supply chain and readiness capabilities come together to support the British Army of the future.

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

• Leading the development of the future integrated readiness operating model, bringing together engineering, logistics, maintenance, asset management and supply chain capabilities.
• Engaging with senior Ministry of Defence, military and internal stakeholders to understand requirements and shape strategic solutions.
• Identifying capability gaps, improvement opportunities and transformation priorities to support future readiness objectives.
• Collaborating with cross-functional programme teams to ensure an integrated end-to-end support proposition across the wider LIOS programme.
• Developing operating model designs, transformation roadmaps, business cases and strategic solution proposals.

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

Essential experience of the Integrated Readiness Solution Lead

• Experience leading the design and delivery of complex operating models, transformation programmes or integrated support solutions.
• Expertise across asset management, engineering support, logistics, maintenance, supply chain or operational readiness environments.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and building alignment across customer, operational, technical and commercial communities.
• A track record of developing future-state strategies, transformation roadmaps and performance improvement initiatives.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams within defence, aerospace, engineering or other asset-intensive sectors.

Qualifications for the Integrated Readiness Solution Lead

• Degree qualified in Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain, Asset Management, Business, Operations Management or a related discipline.
• Chartered professional status or equivalent professional recognition – desirable
• Project or Programme Management qualification – desirable
• Professional accreditation in Asset Management, Logistics, Supply Chain or Systems Engineering – desirable
• Experience within defence, military support or integrated logistics 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 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: 15/10/2026

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