Job Title:              Director of Skynet Future Solutions
Location:              Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF59623

 

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 Director of Skynet Future Solutions at our Hawthorn site.

 

The Role
As a Director of Skynet Future Solutions, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock Mission Systems is transforming and we need your support to drive our business beyond the services and projects currently delivered.

You will also seek to identify opportunities in the broader Space domain, looking to understand how solutions developed for Skynet can be exported into the broader Space market.

 

Day-to-day, you’ll lead the development of future solutions within Skynet, ensuring cohesion of activities across a range of exciting and challenging cutting-edge projects.

Responsibility for managing a multidiscipline team, to design technical and commercial solutions, so support customer requirements. Accountability for the Skynet strategy and execution. Proactively identifying new solutions and technologies to improve our capability offering. Responsibility for delivery of work packages to time, cost and quality. Planning and resourcing to support design and delivery of solutions and concept designs. Responsibility for building a strong relationship with our customer and user community, promoting capability and agility to meet mission needs.

 

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office/onsite and 2 days working from home. This role also requires regular travel to Hawthorn and Oakhanger (Bordon, Hampshire) and Colerne (Chippenham, Wiltshire) on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Director of Skynet Future Solutions

Demonstrable experience of leading high performing multi-disciplinary teams. Experience in Strategic Communications, preferably Satcom. Experience in designing and delivering simple solutions to complex customer requirements. Experience in business capture, solution development and business development with demonstrable success in previous roles. Experience in planning and budgeting. Commercially astute, driven and with personal gravitas to lead.

 

Qualifications for the Director of Skynet Future Solutions

Bachelors Degree in a relevant Business or Engineering discipline or equivalent relevant professional experience. Business Masters degree preferable. Must hold a valid UK Driving License.

 

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 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 Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met Flexible locations Potential to develop skills

 

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: 08/10/2024 

 

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