Job Title: Head of Capability and Resilience Portfolio
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68503
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as Head of Capability and Resilience Portfolio at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As Head of Capability and Resilience Portfolio, you’ll lead one of the most strategically significant portfolios within Babcock. This is an exceptional opportunity to drive the successful implementation and delivery of major programmes that strengthen the capability, capacity and resilience across Devonport, the largest naval support site in Western Europe.
Day-to-day, you’ll play a vital role in safeguarding national defence by aligning strategic investments, accelerating improvements to operational infrastructure, embedding high-quality governance and ensuring the delivery of benefits that directly support the Royal Navy. This is a senior leadership position where your influence will shape the future of the site and contribute to meaningful, long‑term improvements for the organisation, our customers and wider UK defence.
- Lead the overall CCR portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with Babcock’s corporate goals and long‑term business planning.
- Oversee portfolio‑level governance, ensuring strong decision‑making, risk management and clear benefit tracking.
- Shape and manage resource and capacity planning, working closely with HR, finance and delivery teams to resolve constraints.
- Engage senior leaders and external partners, building trusted relationships and communicating progress with clarity and confidence.
- Drive continuous improvement, embedding best‑practice portfolio, programme and project management across the organisation.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Head of Capability and Resilience Portfolio
- Significant experience leading large, complex portfolios in environments such as defence, public sector, regulated industry, infrastructure or technology.
- Proven ability to oversee multi‑million‑pound portfolios with complex interdependencies.
- Strong understanding of portfolio, programme and project methodologies (e.g., MoP, MSP, PRINCE2, Agile).
- Demonstrated leadership and influencing capability at executive or board level.
- Strong financial acumen, including experience with business cases, investment appraisal and benefits tracking.
Qualifications for the Head of Capability and Resilience Portfolio
- Degree‑level education in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
- Extensive recent and relevant experience in a similar environment or business sector.
- Additional qualifications in portfolio management, strategy, organisational design or advanced programme leadership - Desirable
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 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
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: 19/03/2026
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