Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager in Warrington to lead strategic procurement initiatives and manage a team. This full-time role offers a hybrid working option, requiring onsite presence a minimum of three days a week. The ideal candidate will have advanced stakeholder management skills and a relevant procurement qualification. Excellent benefits and opportunities for professional growth are included.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

Paid volunteering day

Qualifications

• Recognised professional procurement qualification is preferred.
• Experience in managing contracts and stakeholders is essential.
• Proven track record in delivering project goals through effective management.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement excellence for major projects.
• Manage and mentor a team of supply chain professionals.
• Build strategic relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Advanced stakeholder management

Resource planning

Contract management

Negotiation skills

Education

CIPS or MCIPS qualification

Job description

Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67974

Shape the future of nuclear innovation

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, based at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

The role

As a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead the delivery of strategic and operational procurement excellence across a major project within Cavendish Nuclear. This is a high-impact role where your decisions will shape the future of clean energy and defence, while supporting the UK’s nuclear infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead procurement and supply chain support for a major project.

• Manage and mentor a team of supply chain professionals.
• Build strategic relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to the functional management team to deliver business goals.
• Collaborate with partners to shape and challenge business strategy and priorities.

This is a full-time role based in Warrington, Cheshire, with a 37-hour working week, a hybrid working pattern requiring a minimum of three days onsite, and travel to customer sites may be required.

Essential experience

• Applying advanced stakeholder management and influencing techniques.
• Navigating complex stakeholder environments across multiple organisations.
• Delivering project goals through effective resource planning and contract management.
• Placing and managing NEC4 contracts.
• Writing procurement strategies, plans, and contract award recommendations.

Qualifications

• Ideally, you’ll hold a recognised professional procurement qualification such as CIPS or MCIPS, or an equivalent.
• 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 UK Cavendish 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 (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.

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, 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.

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