Job Title: Senior Learning and Development Business Partner
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £59,000 - £70,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73280
Shape capability. Empower people. Enable national safety.
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 Senior Learning and Development Business Partner at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Senior Learning and Development Business Partner, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be the strategic learning lead for the Clyde business within Naval Nuclear. This is a high-impact role where your expertise directly enables operational performance and future capability in one of the UK’s most critical defence environments.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Partnering with senior leaders to understand business priorities, performance challenges and future skill requirements
- Designing clear learning and capability plans aligned to strategic and operational outcomes
- Creating practical, high-impact learning solutions that go beyond traditional training
- Embedding a strong learning culture focused on measurable performance and results
- Evaluating learning impact, managing budgets and ensuring governance, quality and compliance standards are met
This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, and is based at HMNB Clyde Faslane. Hybrid working arrangements are available, with occasional travel to our Rosyth site.
Essential experience of the Senior Learning and Development Business Partner
- Proven experience as a senior Learning and Development professional operating in complex organisations
- Strong track record of partnering with leaders to deliver capability and performance solutions
- Experience using data and insight to diagnose needs and demonstrate learning impact
- Ability to translate business goals into effective, practical development approaches
- Line management experience is advantageous
Qualifications for the Senior Learning and Development Business Partner
- Relevant experience within Learning and Development or Organisational Capability
- An appropriate HR or Learning qualification or professional chartership - desirable
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: 20/05/2026
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