Business Improvement Associate

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 Business Improvement Associate at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site., As a Business Improvement Associate, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Working within an energetic and diverse team working to challenging timescales delivering transformation projects/programmes in different functions and sectors across defence in the UK. Day-to-day, you'll be accountable to the Business Improvement (BI) Manager. with responsibility of the Transformation Programme Lead for the allocated project/programme.

• Supporting process improvement projects within the function, and work with specialists and leads to implement improvement plans.
• Providing analysis of data on useful information and insights including performance against plan.
• Supporting project activities applying a structured approach and process, ensuring the use the correct tools and techniques to deliver projects through the lifecycle.
• Establishing trusting relationships with the business's key leaders and stakeholders, to ensure that there is a free flow of ideas, information and coordinated activity across the project/programme.
• Ability to perform a range of assignments using established approaches to analyse and resolve problems.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.


• Ability to work well with small teams as well as a wider groups of stakeholders. Fostering teamwork and collaboration
• Proactive and inquisitive individual
• Good communications and stakeholder management skills
• Experience and understanding of project management (preferably PMQ) and the delivery of projects - Desirable
• Experience/Knowledge of process improvement/change - Desirable
• Experienced in analysis of data to provide useful information and insights including performance against plan- Desirable
Qualifications for the Business Improvement Associate
• Qualified to a degree level or be able to demonstrate a career-based knowledge and experience (Higher Level Apprenticeships/HNC/HND)
• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) - Desirable
• APMG Change Management Foundation - Desirable
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - 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 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.