Location
UK, Hybrid
Compensation
Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type
Full time / Permanent
Job Title
Director Naval Training
Overview
Lead the future of Naval training and shape national capability.
About the Role
As Director Naval Training, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the next chapter of Babcock’s Naval training portfolio. This is a high‑impact leadership opportunity where you’ll guide how we deliver essential training programmes that help protect national security and support the Royal Navy’s operational excellence. You’ll provide full P&L oversight across a diverse and evolving portfolio, ensuring the safe, effective and efficient delivery of our commitments. Your decisions will directly influence the capability of the UK’s defence ecosystem, while offering a platform for personal and career growth through strategic leadership, senior customer engagement and high‑profile defence, aerospace and engineering projects.
Day‑to‑Day Responsibilities
* Leading and embedding Naval training contracts into the wider business, enabling collaboration and joined‑up delivery.
* Creating and executing strategies to expand and enhance the training portfolio, including Naval Nuclear, Mission Systems, and special projects.
* Working closely with contract leads, future business teams and Group colleagues to identify and sponsor new growth opportunities.
* Engaging with senior customers, partners and internal leaders to maintain strong relationships and high‑quality delivery.
* Driving operational, financial and safety performance across the portfolio.
Essential Experience
* Established leadership background with proven P&L accountability.
* Experience engaging with a broad and diverse customer base.
* Sector experience across Marine, Mission Systems and/or Nuclear environments.
* Strong track record in developing and executing business strategy.
Qualifications
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education; provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn, we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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. Eligibility 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.
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 – buy or sell up to one working week of leave
* Be Kind Day – one paid volunteering day each year
* Flexible working options
* A dynamic working environment designed to support balance and wellbeing
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive and are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date
13/04/2026
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