Job Title: Director, Training Futures (Capability, Strategy and Growth)
Location: UK, Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72785
Lead the Future of Defence Training Strategy
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Director, Training Futures at any of our main UK locations, near major commutable towns and cities.
The Role
As a Director, Training Futures, you’ll shape the future of training across defence, aerospace and engineering areas that sit at the heart of national security and global stability. This is a strategic leadership position where your insight, direction and decision‑making will directly influence how capability is developed, how growth opportunities are realised, and how complex training solutions evolve to meet tomorrow’s demands.
You’ll work at the forefront of a dynamic, mission‑driven environment, leading initiatives that will elevate operational performance, strengthen our competitive position, and contribute meaningfully to your own career development. This is an opportunity to join a senior leadership team where your expertise will genuinely shape the sector’s future.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
- Drive strategic vision and capability planning, ensuring long-term growth objectives are translated into deliverable outcomes.
- Define and manage the structured growth pipeline for the Training business, including a focus on international and pan‑domain opportunity development.
- Collaborate with business winning teams and senior stakeholders to design compelling, insight-led and customer-focused training solutions.
- Lead disciplined performance management, improving conversion, quality, and sustainability of growth activities across the organisation.
- Oversee early mobilisation planning to de‑risk delivery and ensure seamless transition into operational teams
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Director, Training Futures (Capability, Strategy and Growth)
- Extensive senior leadership experience in large, complex organisations.
- Strong governance understanding and proven ability to operate within matrix environments.
- Demonstrable track record of driving pipeline development and revenue growth, including securing high‑value deals.
- Experience leading UK and international growth activity, ideally within Defence.
- Ability to influence senior defence and central government stakeholders, with an understanding of the Defence competitive landscape.
Qualifications for the Director, Training Futures (Capability, Strategy and Growth)
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.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 receive 10 days’ special paid leave
- Holiday Trading — buy or sell up to one working week
- Be Kind Day — paid leave for volunteering
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment designed to support career growth and wellbeing
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.
Closing date: 13/04/2026