Procurement Delivery Lead – Secure Programme

Leidos; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days Annual Leave (including public

Flexi-Time

Access to Flexible benefits

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a highly organised Procurement Support Manager to coordinate TLL procurement activities across a secure government programme in Farnborough. The role focuses on governance, documentation, and timely progression with stakeholders across programme leadership, commercial, supply chain and finance teams.

You will maintain trackers, manage requisitions and supplier inputs, and support onboarding and reporting to ensure delivery momentum in a governed, secure environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement management within a complex delivery environment.
• Strong organisational skills to manage multiple requests and deadlines.
• High attention to detail with accurate records and controlled documentation.
• Understanding of requisitions, purchase orders, supplier information, approvals and document control.
• Strong written and verbal communication for updates and status reports.
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams, suppliers and stakeholders to maintain momentum.
• Proficiency with MS Office tools (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams).
• Ability to work in secure, governed environments with auditability and information handling.
• Proactive, delivery-focused with the ability to escalate blockers.
• Experience with UK government, defence, secure or regulated programmes.
• Experience supporting procurement in programme delivery, managed service, transition or mobilisation.
• Awareness of supplier onboarding, procurement governance, finance controls or contract management.
• Experience using enterprise systems or collaboration tools (SharePoint, Teams, ServiceNow, Jira, SAP, Oracle, Workday).
• Awareness of public sector procurement principles and supplier management.
• Working knowledge of information security and secure programme ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Support the management and coordination of TLL procurement activity across the secure programme, ensuring actions, approvals, documentation and supplier inputs are tracked and progressed.
• Maintain procurement trackers, action logs, request records, supplier engagement logs and reporting information to provide clear visibility of status, dependencies, risks and blockers.
• Coordinate purchase requisitions, purchase order activity, goods receipting support, invoice query resolution and procurement management in line with programme and Leidos processes.
• Work with programme, commercial, finance and supply chain colleagues to ensure procurement activity is aligned to delivery priorities, budget controls, approval routes and governance requirements.
• Support supplier onboarding, supplier information requests, procurement evidence gathering and document control activities, ensuring records are complete, accurate and auditable.
• Coordinate procurement meetings, prepare agendas, capture actions, maintain decision logs and follow up with internal teams and suppliers to ensure timely closure.
• Track procurement dependencies across workstreams, escalating delays, missing information or approval blockers to the appropriate programme or functional leads.
• Support reporting on procurement status, upcoming commitments, aged actions, supplier responses, delivery milestones and commercial management activities.
• Maintain controlled procurement documentation in approved repositories, ensuring version control, access requirements and information handling expectations are followed.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of procurement management processes, templates, trackers and ways of working across the programme.

Skills

Procurement management

Stakeholder coordination

Documentation governance

Microsoft Office

Auditability

Governance

Communication

Secure environment awareness

Tools

SharePoint

Teams

ServiceNow

Jira

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Job description

Leidos is seeking a highly organised Procurement Support Manager to coordinate TLL procurement activities across a secure government programme in Farnborough. The role focuses on governance, documentation, and timely progression with stakeholders across programme leadership, commercial, supply chain and finance teams.

You will maintain trackers, manage requisitions and supplier inputs, and support onboarding and reporting to ensure delivery momentum in a governed, secure environment.