Project Manager - Strategic Portfolio

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Job Title: Project Manager – Strategic Portfolio

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol

Compensation: £51,941.00 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF60083

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 Strategic Portfolio Project Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role

As a Project Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As part of a high performing team that provides a unique strategic portfolio planning capability, you’ll be at the heart of planning and decision making for the UK nuclear submarine programme. This exciting role requires a team of individuals that operate in a collaborative, fast paced, complex and changing environment where they have a significant positive impact on Royal Navy’s operations. The team utilise innovative modelling approaches and P3M methodologies to bring awareness and coherence to the UK’s submarine portfolio.

Day to day, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of the operation of the submarine enterprise.

• Lead on the development of strategic planning governance arrangements.
• Identify and assess risks to the strategic portfolio and report in an appropriate format to senior stakeholders.
• Utilise innovative modelling outputs from our data analytics team to produce and assess business cases.
• Manage stakeholders both internally and within the waterfront teams in Devonport and Clyde.
• Provide management and monitoring of strategic decisions, issues, and actions on behalf of the submarine support enterprise
  
  
  

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at our Bristol site.

Essential experience of the Project Manager – Strategic Portfolio:

• Project management experience in a complex portfolio environment.
• Strong numeracy, logic, and problem-solving skills; data analysis is highly desirable
• Some engineering experience is highly desirable
• Experience in a high pressure and dynamic environment producing outputs at an executive level.
• Demonstrable experience of managing and positively influencing stakeholders in a complex environment.
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Project Manager – Strategic Portfolio:

• Degree or appropriate relevant experience
  
  
  

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 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.

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: 06/01/2025

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