Job Title: Lead Change Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68134
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Lead Change Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Lead Change Manager, you’ll take a central role in driving the change strategy across Babcock’s Capability, Capacity and Resilience (CCR) portfolio. This is an exciting opportunity to influence major transformation programmes that strengthen how we operate at one of the UK’s most significant defence sites.
Day-to-day, you’ll lead the planning, integration and adoption of change, ensuring leaders and end users are equipped, ready and confident to embrace new capabilities.
- Lead all change management activity across the CCR portfolio, ensuring alignment with programme vision and organisational priorities.
- Develop and maintain business change roadmaps, integrating change activities into wider programme and portfolio plans.
- Conduct change impact assessments, analysing data and identifying risks to ensure successful adoption.
- Provide guidance, coaching and direction to change managers and portfolio teams to embed best‑practice change.
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication, readiness and delivery progress.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Lead Change Manager
- Experience leading change activity within complex portfolios in sectors such as defence, public sector, regulated industries, infrastructure or technology.
- Strong understanding of change processes and how people experience change.
- Ability to apply and embed best‑practice change management tools and methodologies.
- Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to drive positive behavioural change.
- Ability to create an environment that enables teams to deliver successfully.
Qualifications for the Lead Change Manager
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
- Prosci and/or APMG Change Management certification, or relevant experience in a similar environment.
- Additional accreditation in organisational development, transformation, behavioural science or project/programme management - 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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