Logistics Capacity Manager

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Your Role

A Warehouse and Logistics Senior Specialist is an intermediate-level professional role in the Warehouse and Logistics discipline of the Procurement and Supply Chain role family. This role requires an expanded level of knowledge and experience of professional practice in this discipline, representing the first degree of progression from an entry-level role. This role applies discipline domain knowledge, experience, and judgment to undertake a range of professional assignments. This role will work within established procedures and guidance, under supervision from management roles or senior grade professionals.

Description

As a Logistics Capability Manager, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to join a team of experienced defence logistics professionals delivering critical warehousing and distribution services that support the Royal Navy’s fleet of warships and submarines. Your work will directly contribute to operational readiness and national security while giving you the chance to develop your leadership, strategic planning and operational management expertise within a global engineering organisation. Day-to-day, you’ll help shape and deliver the long-term logistics strategy for a complex operational environment. Working with delegated authority from the Logistics Leadership team, you'll ensure storage capacity and logistics capabilities are aligned to future business requirements, while leading teams through change and continuous improvement initiatives. This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based in Plymouth.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading logistics capability and capacity planning activities to support operational and strategic objectives.
• Collaborating with Babcock colleagues and customer stakeholders to deliver key performance targets.
• Analysing operational data and performance metrics to drive informed business decisions.
• Championing continuous improvement initiatives across warehousing and distribution operations.
• Developing, coaching and motivating teams while promoting a positive learning culture and effective change management.

Essential Experience

• Experience in a management role at line manager level or above for a minimum of three years.
• Experience leading teams within a warehousing, logistics, supply chain or distribution environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to build effective working relationships.
• Experience interpreting operational data to support business decision-making and performance improvement.
• High level of IT literacy, including strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable management and leadership capability within a logistics or operational environment.
• Level 4 qualification in Warehouse and Distribution.
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) UK.

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.

Benefits

• 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‑day special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement, available from 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.

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

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.