Strategic Portfolio Leader - Communications and Electronic Warfare
Babcock
- Plymouth Devonport, Devon
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and deliver 'strategy into action' plans for the Communication and Electronic Warfare Portfolio, ensuring integration with the Sense + Connect Line of Business strategy and alignment with the broader Mission Systems objectives.
- Ensure existing and future contracts within the Strategic Portfolio are delivered successfully to meet customer goals, business objectives and financial targets.
- Maintain the Military Communications opportunity pipeline, monitoring markets and ensuring new opportunities are identified and prosecuted in-line with strategy and financial targets.
- Credibly represent Babcock across the scope of the Strategic Portfolio, fostering relationships with customers, stakeholders, and industry partners, as required to deliver the strategy.
- Understand customer and other stakeholder needs and goals, defining and implementing management strategies and communication plans that build trust and support collaborative working.
- Relevant experience and subject matter expertise within the Communications and Electronic Warfare domain.
- Experience of successfully delivering and growing businesses and managing senior customer stakeholders.
- A strategic thinker, with an ambitious outlook, with extensive experience in successful delivery of complex programmes and portfolios, business development and bid winning as well as leading operations.
- Strong business acumen, with the ability to understand the needs of internal stakeholders, and to contribute to the development of sound, effective and efficient solutions.
- The ability to work effectively and collaboratively with senior stakeholders, across borders
- The ability to lead diverse functional teams, demonstrating strong operational and line management capability and the ability to motivate and develop high performing teams.
- Education, or equivalent experience, to degree level within a relevant subject.
- Holds, or capable of achieving Chartered status within a relevant professional body
- The successful candidate must be able to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- '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