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Plymouth
Babcock International
Head of delivery
Posted: 16 June
The role

Job Title: Head of Delivery Services

Location: Plymouth, Bristol or Edinburgh

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

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 Head of Delivery Services at our Plymouth, Bristol or Edinburgh sites.

The role

As a Head of Delivery Services, you’ll take on a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and driving the delivery of complex portfolios that support the Royal Navy and wider UK defence. You will align strategic investment with operational delivery, ensuring governance, performance, and continuous improvement are embedded across the organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the opportunity to influence large-scale programmes, improve infrastructure and capability, and deliver measurable benefits in a safety-critical, highly regulated environment. You’ll work at the forefront of defence delivery, contributing to long-term national security while advancing your leadership career at a global organisation.

  • Leading cross-portfolio delivery, ensuring compliance, governance, and performance standards are consistently achieved
  • Driving strategic initiatives including digital transformation, knowledge management, and continuous improvement
  • Developing and implementing resourcing strategies to align future demand with operational capability
  • Managing interfaces, risks, and dependencies across complex programmes and stakeholder groups
  • Identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance delivery outcomes
  • This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at either, Plymouth, Bristol or Edinburgh and requires travel to the other sites.

    Essential experience of the Head of Delivery Services

  • Significant experience leading large, complex portfolios within defence, infrastructure, public sector, or regulated industries
  • Proven ability to oversee multi-million-pound programmes with complex interdependencies
  • Strong knowledge of portfolio, programme, and project delivery methodologies such as Managing Successful Programmes, Projects In Controlled Environments, or Agile
  • Demonstrated leadership and influencing capability at senior or executive level
  • Strong financial and commercial acumen, including business case development and benefits realisation
  • Qualifications for the Head of Delivery Services

  • Degree level qualification in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience
  • Additional qualifications in portfolio management, strategy, or programme leadership are desirable
  • Security Clearance

    The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 Babcock

    We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.

    Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

    We call that lifetime engineering.

    Join us and see how far we can go, together.

    We are a disability confident committed employer.

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