Job Title: Senior HR Business Partner
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF70008
Shape People Strategy at the Heart of Defence
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 Senior HR Business Partner at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract offering the chance to influence key initiatives across a complex and high-profile environment. You’ll partner with senior leaders, support change programmes, and ensure our workforce is equipped for the future. This is an opportunity to make a real impact while developing your expertise in a dynamic, forward-thinking organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll take a leading role in designing and delivering people strategies that drive organisational success.
- Act as the HR representative in cross-functional forums, contributing to organisational priorities
- Partner with senior leaders to design and deliver people strategies aligned with business objectives
- Support managers in planning and executing change initiatives
- Lead strategic workforce planning to meet future skills and capability needs
- Drive continuous improvement through progressive HR practices and initiatives.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Senior HR Business Partner
- Significant HR experience within large or complex organisations
- Proven track record of delivering strategic HR initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders
- Ability to lead and support organisational change and performance improvement
- Commercial awareness with capability to design pragmatic, business-focused solutions
- Skilled at working through complexity with integrity, collaboration, and resilience
Qualifications for the Senior HR Business Partner
- Degree or Level 7 HR qualification (or equivalent experience)
- CIPD membership and recent CPD (preferred)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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: 09/12/2025
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