Business strategy & management occupations Work, Jobs in Ashburton, Dev (with Salaries)

Senior Business Improvement Specialist
Babcock International —Plymouth
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Continuous improvement
- No degree
- Business
- Annual leave
14d
New Business Development Executive
Shared Apprenticeships —Exeter
- Up to £32,000 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- CRM software
- Sales
- Microsoft Office
- Work from home
Quick apply
13d
Business Development Manager
Clear Business —Exeter
- Up to £40,000 a year
- Full-time
- Sales
- Employee discount
Quick apply
Business Development Executive
Action Prompt Ltd —Plymouth
- From £30,000 a year
- Full-time
- Sales
- Business development
- Analysis skills
Quick apply
15h
Director - Corporate Services
Met Office —Heavitree
- £90,000 a year
- Temporary
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Driving
- AI
- Annual leave
3d
General Manager
Chartwells —Plymouth
- £52,000 a year
- Hospitality
- Sales
- Contracts
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
7d
Business Development Manager
SUEZ —Exeter
- £43,562 - £55,542 a year
- Full-time
- Sales
- Business development
- Presentation skills
6d
District Manager
Cobra Coffee —Plymouth
- Full-time
- Hospitality
- JavaScript
- Leadership
- Employee discount
- Life insurance
14d
Business Manager – Painting & Decorating Company
D L Painting and Decorating —Plymouth
- £25,171.16 - £44,168.00 a year
- Full-time
- Customer service
- Maintenance
- Administrative experience
Quick apply
Governance Administrator
CORNERSTONE HOUSING LTD —Exeter
- £27,776 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- English
- Microsoft Office
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Flexitime
Quick apply
5d
PACOM - Business Development Manager
Securitas Technology UK —Exeter
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Business development
- Travel
- Communication skills
Quick apply
Operations Manager
Liberty —Exeter
- Overtime
- Customer service
- Driving
- Contracts
- Annual leave
Quick apply
10d
Retail Area Sales Manager - South West England
The Works —Plymouth
- Sales
- Customer service
- Communication skills
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Business Development Manager
Old Mill —Exeter
- Hybrid work
- Sales
- Business development
- Communication skills
Quick apply
Information Governance Officer
University of Exeter —Exeter
- From £33,951 a year
- University
- SharePoint
- Annual leave
11d
Restaurant Growth Partner - Global Food Ventures
Qureos Inc —Plymouth
- Remote
- Hospitality
- Sales
- Restaurant
Business Development Manager
Vindis Group —Plymouth
- Sales
- Customer service
- Employee assistance programme
Area Manager
TC Facilities Management —Plymouth
- £38,000 a year
3d
Senior Manager, Contracts
Collins Aerospace —Plymouth
- Full-time
- Mentoring
- Contracts
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Regional Manager
Bestway Group —Exeter
- Full-time
- Human resources
- Leadership
- Communication skills
Quick apply

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Senior Business Improvement Specialist

Babcock International -
Plymouth

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
14 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension

Qualifications

Six Sigma Black Belt
Business analysis
Change management
Continuous improvement
Business

Full job description

Location:
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

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Onsite or Hybrid:
Job Title: Senior Business Improvement Specialist

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74649

Drive Transformation. Deliver Lasting Change. Make an Impact Where It Matters.

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 Business Improvement Specialist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Senior Business Improvement Specialist, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and delivering transformational change across one of the UK's most important engineering and defence environments. Working within the Business Improvement team, you'll help drive the Devonport Transformation Programme by identifying opportunities to enhance performance, improve efficiency and deliver sustainable business value.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile transformation initiatives that support national infrastructure and defence capability. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across the business, lead improvement projects, solve complex challenges and influence meaningful change. In return, you'll be given the autonomy, support and development opportunities to further grow your expertise in business improvement, change management, continuous improvement, project management and organisational transformation.

leading business improvement and transformation initiatives that deliver measurable organisational benefits.
Driving structured problem-solving activities to identify and implement sustainable solutions to complex business challenges.
Supporting project and programme teams by applying best-practice methodologies across improvement, change and transformation activities.
Coaching and influencing colleagues and stakeholders to successfully adopt new ways of working and embed change.
Monitoring governance, risk and performance measures to ensure successful delivery of transformation objectives.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Senior Business Improvement Specialist

Demonstrable experience within business improvement, transformation or continuous improvement environments.
Proven ability to lead and deliver improvement projects using recognised methodologies such as project management, change management, business analysis or lean principles.
Experience solving complex, non-routine business problems and delivering practical, sustainable outcomes.
Experience supporting transformation programmes, including governance, risk management and performance tracking.
Strong understanding of how business improvement initiatives align with strategic organisational objectives.

Qualifications for the Senior Business Improvement Specialist

Essential

Degree-level qualification, or equivalent professional experience, in a relevant discipline.
Practitioner-level qualification in at least one relevant specialism such as Project Management, Change Management, Business Analysis or Lean.

Desirable

Association for Project Management qualification.
Change Management Practitioner or Prosci Practitioner certification.
Business Analysis Practitioner qualification.
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.

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

Babcock

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 [email protected] 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: 20/07/2026

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