Job Title: Senior Key Account Manager
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66788
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 Key Account Manager at our Hawthorn, Wiltshire or Bristol site.
The Role
As a Senior Key Account Manager within the Space Business Unit, this role will contribute to the delivery of mission outcomes for an operational HQ.
As a Senior Key Account Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is a highly visible and influential Senior Key Account Manager role operating within a new and exciting business unit (Space Business Unit) working closely with senior stakeholders within Babcock and the Ministry of Defence.
Day-to-day, you’ll manage and drive key account stakeholder engagement whilst interfacing with all appropriate internal Babcock and Team Aurora stakeholders to ensure current and future mission outcomes are met.
Working alongside our internal stakeholders, and importantly the Ministry of Defence (MoD); Defence Digital, MSHQ, NAD, Space Command and where appropriate the Front-Line Commands.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Develop and execute a stakeholder plan to build trusted relationships across MoD strategy, capability, and operations. Foster similar ties within Babcock and partners to coordinate strategic initiatives, future solutions, and operational awareness.
- Customer Insight & Communication: Use customer engagement to gauge perceptions, identify capability or delivery issues, and anticipate future challenges. Share insights with Babcock/Team Aurora to guide planning and corrective actions. Lead messaging and communication strategies with the customer and facilitate internal coordination for timely issue resolution.
- Capability Development Alignment: Understand MoD’s strategic plans, drivers, and challenges. Influence Skynet and SKIES strategy by leveraging Babcock, Team Aurora, and supply chain expertise. Ensure alignment with customer strategy and procurement through clear communication with the Space Business Unit.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential Experience of the Senior Key Account Manager
- Strong background working in and knowledge of Skynet, Satellite communications (SATCOM) and Defence Digital.
- Proven experience in working with the UK MoD on either MILSATCOM (preferred) or COMSATCOM, with an in depth understanding of key drivers and constraints that will steer future strategy with an ability to link this to technical/operational requirements.
- Ability to build relationships and inspire confidence at multiple levels with both the MoD stakeholders and Babcock and its partner organisations.
- Experience in operating in complex environments with conflicting demands with diverse stakeholders to build clear strategy and forward path.
- Proven ability to influence and engender trust across diverse (internal/external) stakeholder community in order to help attain consensus in environments where frequently there is no clear single way forwards and diverging stakeholder views.
Qualifications for the Senior Key Account Manager
- 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 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: 02/09/2025
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