Senior Business Improvement Specialist
// Role Summary
Drive transformative change in a critical UK engineering and defence environment as a Senior Business Improvement Specialist. Shape and deliver initiatives that enhance performance, improve efficiency, and contribute to national security.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver business improvement and transformation initiatives.
- Apply structured problem-solving and best-practice methodologies.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive sustainable change.
- Shape and deliver transformational change in a defence environment.
- Requires Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Senior Business Improvement Specialist at Babcock's Devonport Royal Dockyard site, you will play a pivotal role in driving transformational change within one of the UK's most significant engineering and defence settings. Working as part of the Business Improvement team, you will be instrumental in shaping and delivering initiatives that enhance performance, boost efficiency, and generate lasting business value as part of the Devonport Transformation Programme.
This exciting opportunity allows you to work on high-profile transformation projects that directly support national infrastructure and defence capabilities. You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders across the business, lead crucial improvement projects, tackle complex challenges, and influence meaningful organisational change. Babcock is committed to your professional growth, offering autonomy, support, and development opportunities to advance your expertise in business improvement, change management, continuous improvement, project management, and organisational transformation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading business improvement and transformation initiatives that deliver measurable organisational benefits.
- Driving structured problem-solving activities to identify and implement sustainable solutions to complex business challenges.
- Supporting project and programme teams by applying best-practice methodologies across improvement, change and transformation activities.
- Coaching and influencing colleagues and stakeholders to successfully adopt new ways of working and embed change.
- Monitoring governance, risk and performance measures to ensure successful delivery of transformation objectives.
Essential Experience:
- Demonstrable experience within business improvement, transformation or continuous improvement environments.
- Proven ability to lead and deliver improvement projects using recognised methodologies such as project management, change management, business analysis or lean principles.
- Experience solving complex, non-routine business problems and delivering practical, sustainable outcomes.
- Experience supporting transformation programmes, including governance, risk management and performance tracking.
- Strong understanding of how business improvement initiatives align with strategic organisational objectives.
Qualifications:
- Essential: Degree-level qualification, or equivalent professional experience, in a relevant discipline.
- Essential: Practitioner-level qualification in at least one relevant specialism such as Project Management, Change Management, Business Analysis or Lean.
- Desirable: Association for Project Management qualification, Change Management Practitioner or Prosci Practitioner certification, Business Analysis Practitioner qualification, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Eligibility for certain roles may be affected by birthplace, nationality, citizenship, and residency history.
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary + Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for Reservists
- Holiday Trading Scheme
- ‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to building a future that lasts, through meaningful careers and essential products and services for national security and public infrastructure.
We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome discussions about flexible working and reasonable adjustments during the application and selection process.