Communications Business Partner

Job Title:                     Communications Business Partner

Location:                     Hybrid, UK, (Rosyth or Devonport preference)

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF75026

Shape the stories that support a safer, more secure world

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Communications Business Partner at Rosyth or Devonport, near Dunfermline, Fife or Plymouth, Devon.

The role

As a Communications Business Partner, you’ll join our global Communications function, partnering with teams across the United Kingdom and overseas to deliver impactful communications that support business growth, operational success, and strategic priorities. This is an exciting opportunity to influence how Babcock communicates with colleagues, customers, stakeholders, media, and communities while contributing to projects that make a real difference to national security and critical infrastructure.

You’ll play a key role in shaping communications campaigns, strengthening our brand, enhancing stakeholder engagement, and helping tell the stories behind some of the most important engineering and defence programmes in the world. Along the way, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your strategic communications expertise within a dynamic and purpose-driven organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for:

• Leading, advising, and delivering communications campaigns that support operational priorities and business development activity.
• Developing and executing public relations and media engagement activity across local, trade, and industry media channels.
• Acting as a brand champion, ensuring communications align with Babcock’s brand standards and corporate messaging.
• Collaborating with communications colleagues and business stakeholders to deliver integrated internal and external communications plans.
• Supporting and delivering corporate events and engagement activities across the United Kingdom and internationally.

This role is based at Rosyth or Devonport and is 37.5 hours per week. Flexible working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Communications Business Partner:

• Experience building relationships and engaging effectively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in public relations and working with media and external audiences.
• Strong understanding of internal communications and its role in driving organisational change and business objectives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including copywriting, editing, message development, and audience engagement.
• Experience within the defence sector or a closely related industry.

Qualifications for the Communications Business Partner:

• Degree, Higher National Diploma, Higher National Certificate, or equivalent qualification in Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Creative Writing, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience working within a corporate communications function or communications agency environment

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 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

Babcock

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.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 27/07/2026