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Business Improvement Associate

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 Improvement Associate at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Business Improvement Associate, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working within an energetic and diverse team working to challenging timescales delivering transformation projects/programmes in different functions and sectors across defence in the UK.

• Supporting process improvement projects within the function, and work with specialists and leads to implement improvement plans.
• Providing analysis of data on useful information and insights including performance against plan.
• Supporting project activities applying a structured approach and process, ensuring the use the correct tools and techniques to deliver projects through the lifecycle.
• Establishing trusting relationships with the business’s key leaders and stakeholders, to ensure that there is a free flow of ideas, information and coordinated activity across the project/programme.
• Ability to perform a range of assignments using established approaches to analyse and resolve problems.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.

• Ability to work well with small teams as well as a wider groups of stakeholders. Fostering teamwork and collaboration
• Proactive and inquisitive individual
• Good communications and stakeholder management skills
• Experience and understanding of project management (preferably PMQ) and the delivery of projects - Desirable
• Experience/Knowledge of process improvement/change - Desirable
• Experienced in analysis of data to provide useful information and insights including performance against plan- Desirable

• Qualified to a degree level or be able to demonstrate a career-based knowledge and experience (Higher Level Apprenticeships/HNC/HND)
• APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) - Desirable
• APMG Change Management Foundation - Desirable
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt - Desirable

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

• 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
• 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’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.

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