Business Operations Placement

Job Description:

Start date:

19 July 2027

Location:

Stevenage Duration: 13 Months Applications close on 25 October 2026 !

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Salary: £24,50037 hours per week // Flexible working hours // Hybrid working options available depending on the role // Half day Fridays!* // 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
* subject to completing full hours prior to this

About us:

We have an exciting internship opportunity within our Business Operations Team to gain hands-on experience in the application of conceptual and theoretical resource planning at the Space Digital UK level. In this role, you will directly interface with all Business Winning and Delivery teams, helping to monitor and control the demand for staffing across our Research & Development, Business Winning, and Project/Service Delivery activities.

Airbus Space Digital UK is Europe's leading provider of secure communications services, offering a comprehensive suite of satellite communications services and best-in-class secure network services and solutions. We provide governments, militaries, and international agencies with mission-critical voice and high-speed data communications to ensure that essential communications run safely, securely, and efficiently—on land, at sea, and in the air. We are the  Always on  solution, worldwide.

What you will be doing:

The successful candidate will become an integral member of the Business Operations Team, which primarily controls / monitors Organisational Planning, Governance, Transformation, Improvement, Knowledge Management, Collaboration and Special Projects across multiple locations; whilst additionally coordinating Business Performance Reporting, supporting the development of Business Strategy and maintaining the Business Continuity Framework.

Whilst working within the Business Operations Team and the wider Business the successful candidate will have access to a vast training library that will aid the development of an introductory level of project planning, cost control, and analysis methodologies and techniques, which will be used to:

Generate and adjust resource planning projections to support the Operational Planning activities that are performed between the Business Winning, Delivery and Functional Teams;

Assist Strategic Planning Team to ensure seamless resource planning by generating customised scenario plans and establishing a regular dialogue that maintains transparency as resource plans evolve;

Interact with a wide variety of off-the-shelf and bespoke tools to ensure the Business Operations Team use best practice and that data is recorded/reported to a high level of accuracy;

Supply project history research that develops analysis supporting a variety of operational planning activities, providing recommendations and requirements to enhance standardised reports and bespoke modelling;

Support the monitoring and Governance over Organisational Compliance, the implementation of Business Continuity management activities and the various Transformation and Change initiatives across the Business.

Requirements:

Our placements are open to Undergraduates only . Therefore it is mandatory for candidates to be an undergraduate for the whole duration of the placement. Please inform your graduation date on your…