Communications Business Partner

Job Title:                     Communications Business Partner

Location:                     London + Plymouth, Devon + Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF71487

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 Communications Business Partner at our Wigmore Street, Rosyth or Devonport sites.

The role

As a Communications Business Partner, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to influence strategic campaign activity, advise decision‑makers, lead communication planning, and ensure our internal and external messaging aligns with Babcock’s wider purpose.

Day-to-day, you’ll play a key role in helping shape the future of Babcock’s Marine Sector at a pivotal moment of growth. You’ll partner closely with our Marine Growth team, working with senior leaders and a range of international stakeholders to create strategic, high‑impact communications that support business development, strengthen our brand, and enhance our position in global defence, aerospace and engineering markets.

• Lead, advise and deliver communications activities that support Marine Growth and wider business development initiatives.
• Identify, develop and manage PR and media activities that enhance strategic growth campaigns.
• Act as a brand champion, ensuring consistency of messaging across all external and internal communications.
• Work closely with Babcock’s global Communications team to produce strategic content and support major initiatives, campaigns and events.
• Support Growth and Marketing teams with materials for conferences, business events and key stakeholder engagements.

• Support the wider Marine communications team with ongoing communications initiatives and projects. 

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements and will require regular travel to other UK sites alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Communications Business Partner

• Experience operating effectively across multinational cultures and teams.
• Proven ability to build strong internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Skilled in producing high‑quality communications across multiple channels and formats.
• Public relations expertise, including engagement with media and external stakeholders.
• Strong background in aerospace and defence, with extensive experience in corporate or agency communications and a clear understanding of campaign communications that support strategic business objectives.

Qualifications for the Communications Business Partner

• Degree, HND, HNC or Diploma in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Creative Writing or a related subject.
• Additional development or professional training in communications, PR, media or strategic marketing - 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 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: 25/02/2026

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