Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

weServed; Blackwater; Hybrid; GBP 55,400 - 62,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Aviva DigiCare+ health services

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees covered

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager to shape procurement strategies and lead supplier engagement for the Land Training business. The role involves regular travel to client sites and collaboration with operational leaders to deliver value and performance improvements.

Based remotely with travel to London and other sites, the role emphasizes governance, supplier management and bid support in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive procurement experience across sourcing-to-contract lifecycle.
• Strong commercial and contract management experience, including negotiating supplier agreements.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and influence at different organisational levels.
• Experience developing and managing complex supply chains in a fast-paced operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop procurement strategies across contracts, projects and bids.
• Lead sourcing, tendering and contract placement activities.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to identify value opportunities.
• Manage supplier performance, risk and governance for contract delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement and sustainable value in procurement.

Skills

Procurement

Contract mgmt

Stakeholder mgmt

Supply chain

Education

CIPS qualification

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £55,400 - £62,400 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74477

Shape the supply chains behind critical training services

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager supporting our Land Training business, with regular travel to London Fire Brigade sites and other customer locations.

The role

As a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering procurement and supply chain solutions across operational contracts, strategic projects and business bids. Supporting programmes that provide training and training support services to the Armed Forces and emergency services, you'll help ensure customers have the equipment, services and specialist capabilities they need to be mission-ready when it matters.

This is a varied and influential position where you'll work closely with operational leaders, suppliers and stakeholders to drive value, improve performance and develop innovative procurement strategies across a diverse portfolio of goods and services.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Developing and delivering procurement strategies across operational contracts, projects and bids.
• Leading sourcing, tendering and contract placement activities to secure high-quality supplier solutions.
• Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for value creation and operational improvement.
• Managing supplier performance, risk and governance activities to ensure successful contract delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives, sustainable value and best-practice procurement across the Land Training business.

This role is based remotely, with regular travel to London Fire Brigade sites in London approximately twice per month. Occasional travel to other Babcock and customer sites will also be required, with travel and subsistence expenses covered in line with company policy.

Essential experience

• Extensive procurement experience across the full sourcing-to-contract placement lifecycle.
• Strong commercial and contract management experience, including negotiating and placing supplier agreements.
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders and influence at different organisational levels.
• Experience developing and managing complex supply chains in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to identify opportunities to improve value and performance.

Qualifications

CIPS qualification or working towards CIPS is desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the 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.

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 to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

About Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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 national security and public infrastructure. We’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

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 [e-mail] 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

22/07/2026