Procurement Manager

Job Title: Procurement Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £51,941 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61975

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 Procurement Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role
As a Procurement Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be supporting the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and partners in delivering next-gen submarine capabilities, enhancing availability and through-life performance of in-service submarines.

Day-to-day, you'll collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to provide Babcock's in-service submarine supply chain support and expertise, ensuring strategic outcomes for the MoD.

Key responsibilities include:

• Challenge and manage key internal stakeholders to enable transformative practices
• Introduce innovative ideas from the supply chain
• Oversee procurement activities and project delivery
• Deliver and present best practice supply chain reporting, knowledge, and expertise

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Procurement Manager:

• Proven experience in strategic supply chain planning, transformation, or global sourcing.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across organisational boundaries
• Commercial awareness and understanding of supply chain risk
• Experience in delivering supply chain improvements

Qualifications for the Procurement Manager:

• MCIPS accreditation or willingness to work towards this as part of Continuous Professional Development is essential

Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many 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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International:
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 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: 11/04/2025