Contract Manager - Marine Training

As a Contract Manager - Marine Training, you will lead the successful delivery of critical marine training contracts that support defence capability. This is a high impact role where you will ensure programmes are delivered to the highest standards of cost, quality, and performance while building trusted relationships with customers and partners. You will help shape how training is delivered, driving continuous improvement and supporting business growth, all while developing your own leadership and commercial expertise in a dynamic environment. Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Manage and deliver marine training contracts to meet cost, schedule, and quality targets
• Lead and develop training delivery teams to achieve high performance
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, stakeholders, and partners
• Oversee budgets, forecasts, and financial performance of contracts
• Monitor contract compliance, performance metrics, and reporting to senior management
The role is based onsite at HMS Collingwood, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.


• Experience of managing contracts or projects with a strong focus on customer delivery
• Applying project management expertise within a complex operational environment
• Leading and motivating teams to improve performance and outcomes
• Using commercial awareness to manage contracts effectively
• Managing financial performance, forecasting, and understanding profit and loss, 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., The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
  
  At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Contract Manager - Marine Training at HMS Collingwood, near Fareham, Hampshire., 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.

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