About the role

  • Lead Change Manager driving change strategy across Babcock's Capability, Capacity and Resilience portfolio. Play a key role in managing transformation programs at the Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Responsibilities

  • Take a central role in driving the change strategy across Babcock’s Capability, Capacity and Resilience (CCR) portfolio.
  • Lead the planning, integration and adoption of change, ensuring leaders and end users are equipped, ready and confident to embrace new capabilities.
  • Lead all change management activity across the CCR portfolio, ensuring alignment with programme vision and organisational priorities.
  • Develop and maintain business change roadmaps, integrating change activities into wider programme and portfolio plans.
  • Conduct change impact assessments, analysing data and identifying risks to ensure successful adoption.
  • Provide guidance, coaching and direction to change managers and portfolio teams to embed best‑practice change.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, readiness and delivery progress.

Requirements

  • Experience leading change activity within complex portfolios in sectors such as defence, public sector, regulated industries, infrastructure or technology.
  • Strong understanding of change processes and how people experience change.
  • Ability to apply and embed best‑practice change management tools and methodologies.
  • Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to drive positive behavioural change.
  • Ability to create an environment that enables teams to deliver successfully.
  • Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
  • Prosci and/or APMG Change Management certification, or relevant experience in a similar environment.
  • Additional accreditation in organisational development, transformation, behavioural science or project/programme management - Desirable.
  • The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

  • 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 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

Job title

Lead Change Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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