Interim Group Head of Benefits

Job Title:                     Interim Group Head of Benefits

Location:                     UK, Hybrid

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / 14 Month Fixed Term Contract

Role ID:                       SF73442

Shape reward strategies that support a safer, stronger world

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Interim Group Head of Benefits at any of Babcock’s Hubs.  Wigmore Street, London will be the primary location.

Babcock is a trusted partner to government and industry, delivering critical services across defence, aerospace, and engineering. Our people are at the heart of everything we do and how we reward, support, and recognise them truly matters.

The role

As an Interim Group Head of Benefits, you’ll take a pivotal leadership role within our Corporate Services function during an exciting period of change and opportunity. This 14‑month fixed‑term role offers the chance to shape group‑wide benefits and recognition strategies that directly support our people strategy, inclusion objectives, and long‑term organisational priorities.

It’s a role where strategic thinking meets meaningful impact, and where you’ll continue to build your professional reputation at senior, enterprise level.

Day-to-day, your work will influence how thousands of colleagues experience their employment at Babcock helping us attract, engage, and retain exceptional talent while ensuring our reward offering remains competitive, compliant, and future‑focused.

• Leading the strategic design, governance, and delivery of employee benefits and recognition programmes
• Driving alignment between benefits, reward strategy, and inclusion and diversity objectives
• Partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders across the organisation to influence decision‑making
• Managing external suppliers, budgets, and benefit schemes to deliver value and compliance
• Ensuring benefit offerings reflect UK legislation, market practice, and organisational priorities

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Interim Group Head of Benefits

• Operating at a senior, strategic level within reward or benefits leadership
• Demonstrated expertise in pensions, including scheme design and governance
• Experience working within complex, matrixed organisations
• Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing, and relationship‑management capabilities
• Proven experience managing suppliers, contracts, and budgets

Qualifications for the Interim Group Head of Benefits

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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
• 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 to buy or sell annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ paid volunteering leave
• Flexible working to support work‑life balance
• A dynamic, purpose‑driven working environment

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: 13/05/2026