Business Planning Specialist - Plymouth, United Kingdom - Babcock International

Babcock International

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Plymouth, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Business Planning Specialist:

Location: Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title:
Business Planning Specialist

Location:
Plymouth, UK - Hybrid - Working from home options available

Compensation:
£39, benefits

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role ID:
SF 49054

You're the key

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 Planning Specialist at our Devonport site.

As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

Babcock International and Devonport
The Business Planning Specialist role is based within our Devonport Royal Dockyard business area.

Working at Devonport puts the best of the South West at your fingertips.

Amazing scenery, vibrant towns and numerous leisure opportunities - It's why Devon and Cornwall are such a desirable place to live and work.

Comprising of 14 dry docks, four miles of waterfront and 25 tidal berths, Devonport is the base for numerous surface vessels as well as the base and refit centre for the Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarines.

Devonport has also recently been selected as the base port for the Navy's new Type 26 frigates and will become the maintenance centre for the future submarine programme.

For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services.

We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of their most critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.

The role

The difference our new Business Planning Specialist will make

As a Business Planning Specialist, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary where you'll manage the Devonport demand plan so this role is critical in making sure they have all the underlying controls.

Day to day, you'll support the development and maintenance of the Devonport demand plan, ensuring capture of all underlying assumptions, change control records and provide updates and reporting to support corporate decision making.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you'll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.

This role provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home. Mondays are normally Onsite.

Essential experience

Experience within a planning/programme management environment.
Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite of Programs (Especially MS Excel).
Competent in the use of Primavera P6 preferred.
Highly numerate and analytical
Educated to a HNC level (or recognised equivalent).
Professional Planning or Business Management Qualification preferred
Able to demonstrate the Leadership Behaviour Competencies at Level
You will need to satisfy security requirements. This may require you to hold or be eligible/capable of achieving 'Security Check' (SC) clearance.

What we offer

Generous benefits including:
Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
Employee share scheme save tax and national insurance on shares, with 1 free share per 10 purchased
Employee shopping savings portal
Employment development allowance £125 per year
Payment of Professional Fees
Reward and Recognition Scheme linked to Health and Safety
Working from home and flexible work patterns
Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best

Babcock International
For over 130 years, we have 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.

Change begins with our people and our shared Principles:
be curious; be courageous; own and deliver; think: outcomes; collaborate; and be kind. These values not only guide the way we work, but also our efforts to reach net-zero carbon. Yes, our ambitions are big, but together, we can achieve them.

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