Quality Business Partner - Quality Manager in London

Location: Beckton, London – Park Royal, London + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £62,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead quality excellence that strengthens resilience training across London.

At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Quality Business Partner – Quality Manager supporting our Training Services – Land business, primarily across London.

The role:

As a Quality Business Partner – Quality Manager, you will take the lead in shaping and delivering the quality strategy across our Resilience training programmes. You will work closely with contract teams, external partners and government emergency service clients to ensure training is compliant, continuously improving, and delivered to the highest standard.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Leading the internal quality cycle, including developing and monitoring the Self-Assessment Report (SAR) and Quality Improvement Plan (QIP).
• Creating, implementing and updating quality policies in collaboration with higher education partners and customers.
• Taking the lead on Ofsted preparation activities across the business unit.
• Acting as the key quality point-of-contact for customers including the Metropolitan Police and London Fire Brigade.
• Managing the quality team to ensure compliance with processes, including internal quality assurance (IQA) activities.

This is a full-time, permanent position, operating on a hybrid working pattern of three days onsite across London locations and two days from home.

Essential experience:

• Background in education, training quality or centre management.
• Strong knowledge of the Education and Inspection Framework and apprenticeship provision.
• Experience acting as an Ofsted nominee for apprenticeship programmes.
• Understanding of commercial training and safeguarding requirements.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 (desirable).

Qualifications:

• A recognised quality qualification (e.g., Qualified IQA).
• Level 2 English and maths (or equivalent).

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and maintain Non-Police Personnel Vetting Level 1 (NPPV1) security clearance for this role.

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.
• '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.

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 are committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone is free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 05/03/2026