Job Title: Contract Manager - Military
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £39,235 - £46,603 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67910
Lead the Mission Behind the Mission
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Contract Manager at Aldershot, near Farnborough, Hampshire.
The role
As a Contract Manager, you’ll take on a strategic and operational leadership role that directly supports the UK’s defence capability. You’ll be responsible for managing customer relationships, planning, and delivery of cadet weapon support services across HQ Home Command and associated formations.
This is a high impact role where your leadership will ensure Babcock delivers a high performing, compliant, and customer aligned service across the Cadet Light Weapon Contract. You’ll safeguard key performance indicators (KPIs), drive operational readiness, and strengthen Babcock’s reputation as a trusted defence partner while growing your own career in a dynamic and meaningful environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
• Leading and supporting a Planner and a Data Analyst, including recruitment, performance management, and wellbeing.
• Submitting performance data to the central reporting team each month and ensuring compliance with health, safety, and quality standards.
• Building strong working relationships with military units and training organisations across the country.
• Collaborating with technical support teams to understand current capacity and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Attending planning meetings and contributing to service enhancements and future contract development.
The role is based onsite at Aldershot, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week. You will work three days a week from the office and two days from home, with travel across the UK required as needed to support units at various locations.
Essential experience of the Contract Manager – Military:
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing teams, including performance and welfare oversight.
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Experience in planning and coordinating service delivery within a defence or military environment.
• Skilled in analysing operational data and translating requirements into actionable plans.
• Familiarity with compliance standards, including health, safety, and quality assurance frameworks.
Qualifications for the Contract Manager – Military:
• Educated to Level 4 in the National Qualification Framework (NQF) or equivalent workplace experience.
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. 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘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: 27/10/2025