Service Transition Manager

Service Transition Manager

Lead the seamless transition of critical defence services that help keep nations safe

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Service Transition Manager at the Belgian Land Forces Simulation Centre (SIMCEN) , near Leopoldsburg, Belgium .

The Role

As a Service Transition Manager , you'll play a crucial role in delivering the successful mobilisation and transition of a strategically important military training and simulation programme. Working at the intersection of defence, technology and operational excellence, you will ensure that services, systems and processes are fully prepared for operational delivery, enabling our customer to achieve their mission with confidence.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence how critical defence capabilities are implemented and assured. You'll collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders, lead testing and acceptance activities, and drive service readiness within a complex operational environment. In return, you'll gain valuable experience working on a high-profile defence programme while building your career within a global organisation committed to innovation, engineering excellence and professional development.

Full-time position (Fixed-Term Contract for 2 Years).

Location: Belgian Land Forces Simulation Centre (SIMCEN), Leopoldsburg, Belgium.

Travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Designing collaborative operational processes aligned to the target operating model.
• Developing and maintaining Test, Evaluation and Acceptance Plans to support successful service transition.
• Leading operational test and evaluation activities to ensure service readiness.
• Coordinating stakeholders to deliver transition milestones, governance requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Managing service assurance activities to support a smooth and effective transition into operational delivery.

Essential experience of the Service Transition Manager:

• Experience developing and delivering test strategies, validation and verification activities.
• Experience managing User Acceptance Testing, System Integration Testing and service acceptance processes.
• Experience working within governance-driven programme or project environments.
• Experience supporting defence, government or highly regulated programmes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and service transition management experience.

Qualifications

Essential

• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager certification.
• PRINCE2 Practitioner certification.
• Dutch language proficiency.
• French and English language proficiency at CEFR B2 level or above.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain Belgian SECRET security clearance.

Desirable

• Additional qualifications in Programme Management, Service Management or Systems Engineering.
• Experience within defence, aerospace, military training, engineering or government sectors.

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 share scheme
• 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 the majority of 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

In addition, employees based in Belgium may benefit from statutory annual leave entitlement, public holiday entitlement, commuting cost reimbursement, meal vouchers, hospitalisation insurance, group pension insurance, company mobile phone and laptop, home-working allowances, and a company car or mobility budget.

Babcock International

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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 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.