Job Title: Group Sustainability Programme Manager
Location: UK, Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 12-month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF73307
Lead sustainability programmes that help protect the future
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Group Sustainability Programme Manager at any of our main UK locations.
Babcock is a global defence, aerospace and engineering organisation trusted to deliver critical services that matter. Sustainability is central to how we operate today and how we safeguard tomorrow. Our people are empowered to lead meaningful change, balancing innovation, responsibility and long‑term value for society.
As a Group Sustainability Programme Manager, you’ll take a pivotal role in leading and coordinating delivery of Babcock’s Group Sustainability Strategy. This is a highly visible position where you’ll provide direction, governance and insight across a complex portfolio of sustainability initiatives that span our business.
This role offers the opportunity to shape real change at scale strengthening environmental performance while enhancing your own leadership capability, programme governance expertise and strategic influence.
Day-to-day, you’ll work with senior leaders and cross‑functional teams to maintain momentum, embed best practice and ensure that sustainability commitments translate into measurable outcomes.
- Leading the strategic programme management and delivery of the Group Sustainability Strategy
- Coordinating governance, reporting and cross‑functional delivery across sustainability initiatives
- Managing major environmental projects through the full programme lifecycle
- Providing insight, direction and thought leadership on sustainability priorities and performance
- Developing and supporting team capability
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Group Sustainability Programme Manager
- Proven experience managing complex programmes or projects within a large organisation
- Recent and relevant experience in sustainability, environmental programmes or a related field
- Strong ability to influence without direct authority and maintain delivery momentum
- Demonstrated experience establishing programme governance and reporting frameworks
- High level of IT capability, including programme and performance reporting tools
Qualifications for the Group Sustainability Programme Manager
- Academic – Batchelors degree and/or project management qualifications (APM PMQ/ChPP or international equivalent desirable or agreement to attain)
- APM/similar membership
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 in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading, allowing employees to buy or sell annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ — one paid day per year to support volunteering
- Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
- A dynamic working environment within a global organisation
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: 28/04/2026