Business Support Specialist
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Business Support Specialist in Plymouth, supporting critical defence infrastructure programmes and senior leaders. This full-time, permanent role offers exposure to high-profile projects and development in essential business skills.
// Key Responsibilities
- Provide crucial business and executive support to senior leadership within the Major Nuclear Capital Programmes.
- Coordinate governance activities, meetings, and stakeholder engagement for complex infrastructure programmes.
- Prepare high-quality reports, presentations, and briefing materials.
- Manage actions, decisions, and trackers to ensure timely follow-up and progress.
- Utilize Microsoft Office proficiency and gain exposure to governance and project environments.
- Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
Business Support Specialist
Help keep critical programmes moving and support leaders shaping the future of UK defence infrastructure. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Business Support Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The Role
As a Business Support Specialist, you’ll play a key role within our Major Nuclear Capital Programmes business, supporting senior leaders and helping to coordinate governance activities across complex, high-profile infrastructure programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a growing business that delivers projects critical to the UK's nuclear enterprise and national security.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide professional business and executive support, ensuring that governance processes run smoothly, information is accurate and timely, and senior stakeholders have the support they need to make informed decisions. Working in a fast-paced environment, you'll gain valuable exposure to senior leadership while developing your organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Coordinating governance meetings, annual calendars, agendas and stakeholder attendance to support effective planning and delivery.
- Preparing high-quality governance packs, reports, presentations and briefing materials for senior leaders and committees.
- Recording actions and decisions, maintaining trackers and monitoring progress to ensure timely follow-up.
- Providing executive support through diary management, meeting coordination, travel arrangements and priority management.
- Maintaining accurate governance records while supporting leadership events, workshops and continuous improvement activities.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential Experience
- Experience supporting senior leaders and executives within a fast-paced business environment.
- Proven ability to coordinate complex meetings and manage multiple stakeholders effectively.
- Experience producing professional reports, meeting packs, presentations and accurate meeting minutes.
- Strong organisational skills, written communication skills and the ability to manage confidential information.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Experience of governance, compliance, programme or project environments, along with Teams, SharePoint or Power BI, would be advantageous.
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 then we would like to hear from you.
The following would be advantageous:
- Business administration, governance, project support or related professional qualifications.
- Relevant training in Microsoft Office, project coordination or governance disciplines.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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.
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 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 UK Babcock 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.
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.