Job Title: Head of Business Development – Collective Training
Location: UK, Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72798
Lead the Future of Collective Training for UK and International Defence
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Head of Business Development – Collective Training at any of our main UK locations, near your nearest commutable town, county.
The role
As our Head of Business Development – Collective Training, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping and driving growth across Babcock’s collective training portfolio. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of training capability across live, virtual, and constructive environments, supporting multi‑domain operational readiness for defence customers in the UK and internationally.
You’ll be joining a purpose‑driven organisation committed to long‑term national security, and your work will have a meaningful impact on the future capability of the armed forces. You’ll collaborate across Group, Sector and Business Unit teams, bringing solutions together to create coherent, customer‑centric, outcome‑focused training propositions. This role offers exceptional visibility, strategic influence, and a platform for your professional development in defence, aerospace, and engineering—industries known for their innovation, complexity, and national importance.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
- Lead the development and management of the business pipeline for collective training solutions.
- Shape, articulate and deliver integrated, customer‑tailored propositions across live, virtual and constructive environments.
- Bring together capabilities from across Babcock to create cohesive, outcome‑based solutions.
- Collaborate with business winning, technical and delivery teams to design competitive and deliverable bids.
- Support mobilisation activity and de‑risk delivery before solutions move into business‑as‑usual teams.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Head of Business Development – Collective Training:
- Experience in land‑component live and synthetic collective training design and delivery.
- Experience of integrating simulation systems for synthetic collective training.
- Leadership experience in large, complex organisations, ideally operating within a matrix structure.
- Experience creating relationships and influencing senior UK and international defence and government stakeholders.
- Proven track record of driving high‑value business development and growth.
Qualifications for the Head of Business Development – Collective Training:
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 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: 09/06/2026
