Total 1 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Portsmouth, Hampshire

Job Title: Capability Director
Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60709

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 Capability Director at our Andover site.

The role
As a Capability Director, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to mould the business for the future through innovative ideas and supporting the implementation of these proposals.

Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for the creation and implementation of change management strategies and plans that engage our employees, providing the environment to deliver early adoption of our new ways of working, delivering simple context and working through change resistance. You will also:

• Work to drive faster adoption, higher ultimate utilisation and greater employee effectiveness achieving the right results and outcomes.
• Leadership of the delivery of multiple initiative projects, concurrently and in line with the timescales planned
• Effective and efficient project coordination, communication and reporting to ensure the right people, know the right things, at the right time, to deliver success and achieve deadlines
• Working with change leads to assist in scoping, governing, and delivering the required deliverables to realise the benefits required
• Working with both Defence and functional colleagues to bring appropriate resource into the workstream to deliver the changes required
• Supporting the delivery of the changes by removing and reducing barriers and blockages to progress

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Capability Director:

• Substantial experience in project / programme management
• Proven and extensive leadership of successfully delivered complex or transformational projects to time and budget
• Exceptional leadership skills evidencing collaboration
• Cultural and operational change management experience working in a senior leadership role; able to understand operational dynamics and build a strong, positive working culture
• Excellent communicator with the ability to provide strong, stable, and clear direction

Qualifications for the Capability Director:

• Completed (or working towards) project management methodology (e.g. APM, PRINCE2)

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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

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 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: 09/12/2024

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