Chief of Staff

6 months ago


Helensburgh, United Kingdom Babcock International Full time

**Chief of Staff**:

- Location: Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL- Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid**Job Title: Chief of Staff**
**Location: Faslane, Helensburgh, Hybrid**
**Compensation: £70,000 plus 20% Annual Bonus plus £6,000 Car Allowance plus Family PMI & Additional Babcock’s Benefits**
**Role Type: Full time / Permanent**
**Role ID: SF54447**

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 Chief of Staff at our Faslane site at Clyde.

At Clyde, Babcock provides services including fleet time engineering, facilities management, waterfront services, logistics and transport within an agreed operating budget, firmly focused on continuous and sustainable improvement in warship and submarine support.

**The role**

A unique opportunity has arisen for a strong and confident individual to join the Business as a Chief of Staff. In this role you’ll be working directly with the Managing Director - Clyde and the exec team to maximise their outputs and support to the customer. The role holder will principally provide support to the Managing Director across all areas of responsibility, from strategy through to operational activities and will also aid the other Executive as required. You will be comfortable working autonomously and pro-actively for the benefit of the team. It is an ideal opportunity for an individual who is comfortable at communicating and engaging with all levels in the organisation as well as external senior customer stakeholders and has an ability to assimilate information quickly and cascade in easy-to-understand chunks quickly picking up on key messages and action points.

**Day to day, you’ll**
- Attend meetings with the MD, capture themes, key actions and suggest/draft responses/ action track as well as providing input and views from own insights and experience.
- Prepare all external packs, reports and presentations required by the MD. Provide meeting briefs, attendees briefs, key issue/opportunity briefs.
- Create a proactive communication and engagement plan for the MD working closely with communications support and HR to ensure that opportunities to communicate with, meet and talk to employees is maximised.
- Opportunistically review the MD diary give direction as necessary to Executive Assistant support to suggest/ arrange engagement opportunities.
- Read and summarise important documents issued to MD, highlighting key themes and linkages and present back to MD as a debrief.
- Act as a sounding board for the MD as required using insight and experience.

**Essential experience of the Chief of Staff**:

- Experience at a mid-level management level role if not Head of Department role.
- The individual will be highly organised with the ability to pick up on interdependencies, deal with conflicting demands and be exceptional at networking.
- Troubleshooting capability with an ability to think laterally.
- Project /programme management experience with ability to manage change programmes, strategic planning capability with a good level of capability in data analytics.
- Previous experience in a consulting field may be advantageous.

**Our Benefits**
- 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

**Babcock International**
For over 130 years Babcock International have 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.

**Closing date: 21/11/23**

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