Business Planning Specialist

Location:Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Business Planning Specialist
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £36,620 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59720

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 Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Business Planning Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working in a highly dynamic and fast paced working environment providing toolsets that supports all levels of the organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be striving to improve organisational alignment and financial performance, by linking strategic and operational planning.

• Working with a range of stakeholders, both internally and externally
• Supporting the development and maintenance of the Submarine’s, both near and long-term portfolio
• Ensuring capture of all underlying assumptions and ensuring they are built into future plans
• Maintaining change control records to ensure they are kept up to date
• Providing updates and reports to support strategic decision making

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Business Planning Specialist

• Experience within a planning and programme management environment
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite of Programs (Especially MS Excel)
• Competence in the use of Primavera P6 preferred, although training will be provided
• Demonstrably numerate and analytical skills with the ability to identify key opportunities and issues
• An Understanding of risk principles would be advantageous

Qualifications for the Business Planning Specialist

• Educated to a HNC level or recognised equivalent experience
• Professional Planning or Business Management Qualification - 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 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 Digi Care+
• 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

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.

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. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 07/10/2024