Senior Procurement Manager

BAE Systems; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 80,000

Job description

Job Title: Senior Procurement Manager

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Sheffield or Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £66,500 + depending on experience

What You’ll Be Doing:

• You will be responsible for managing supply chains in support Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul operations for our platforms (including support to platforms of our sister businesses) on a global basis, responding directly to operational needs.
• Accountable for leading a team of managers and professionals, managing a project, contract or specific work package of spend across the source to pay lifecycle or leading a strategically important/very complex supplier or experienced subject matter expert with extensive procurement knowledge.
• You will work with the team and cross functionally to drive supply chain solutions, requiring the job holder to plan, deliver and deploy appropriate procurement and potential logistics interventions and resource in support of business aims.
• You will manage supplier relationships for allocated areas of responsibilities and utilize market insight, external and internal best practice to drive business change.
• You will be responsible for key supplier performance measures linked to functional and business plans, including but not limited to savings and value targets, supplier delivery, supplier quality, and relationship management.

Essential Your skills and experiences:

• Experience of sourcing, negotiation, and contracting with key suppliers is essential, alongside subcontract management for project delivery, preferably within an aerospace or defence environment.
• Good project management skills, product awareness, commercial acumen, financial awareness, risk and opportunity management.
• Good understanding of the external environment and relevant market intelligence over a range of product categories, preferably within a defence arena.
• Significant people management experience of leading diverse teams of professionals, alongside working in a dynamic project environment.

Desirable:

• Experience in aerospace or defence, particularly with an MRO background.
• Achieved or studying towards MCIPS or a relevant business degree.

Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Weapon Systems UK Team:
As part of BAE Systems Platforms and Services sector, Weapon Systems (UK) designs, develops, manufactures and supports artillery systems, naval guns, and provides engineering capability to the wider BAE Systems business. Our global reach brings our customers a depth and breadth of expertise that meet critical needs in the air, on land, and at sea. Our mission strives for us to be our customer’s trusted and affordable weapons provider, delivering enhanced effects on target and complete mission solutions. We are looking for innovation, commitment and drive to help define the future of Weapon Systems capabilities.

Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfill your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 4th April 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.