Communications Manager
Job Title: Communications Manager Location: Rosyth, Fife or Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF74599 Shape The Story Behind Critical Defence and Marine Programmes At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as Communications Manager at either our Rosyth, Fife or Devonport, Plymouth site.
The role As Communications Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting Babcock’s Marine sector—helping to tell the story of complex defence and commercial marine programmes across the United Kingdom and internationally. You’ll work at the heart of our global communications function, shaping how we engage with colleagues, customers and stakeholders.
Day-to-day, you will be responsible for:
- Developing and delivering strategic internal and external communication plans aligned to Marine sector priorities
- Creating clear, engaging content and messaging for a range of audiences across multiple channels
- Managing media relations, stakeholder engagement and local communications activity
- Supporting crisis communications, issues management and campaign delivery
- Monitoring communication effectiveness and continuously improving channels and approaches
- Demonstrable experience in a communications or public relations role within a large, complex organisation
- Strong experience working with media and external stakeholders
- Proven understanding of internal communications and its role in supporting business objectives and change
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt tone and style for different audiences
- Experience translating complex information into clear and engaging content
- A corporate communications or public relations qualification
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
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.