Procurement Leader – Strategy

Job Title: Procurement Leader – Strategy

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (2 days on-site a week). We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Competitive

What You’ll Be Doing

1. Lead the development of category and supplier strategies to support current and future programmes
2. Identifying opportunities for alignment and integration with other business functions and the wider BAE Systems Group
3. Analyse category insights to support strategy development
4. Responsibility for leading/influencing cross-functional teams to promote collaborative work across the business
5. Acting as champion for procurement, with a particular focus on embedding category management of direct spend across the UK businesses
6. Developing support material for category management to standardise processes, document lessons learned and good practice, and deliver improved operational efficiency

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

1. You will be confident, collaborative and autonomous whilst being able to capture and communicate opportunities across our Supply Chain
2. Commercial awareness with a background in Procurement, Project Management, Commercial or Engineering
3. Strong collaborative skills, communication and stakeholder engagement
4. Ability to analyse data & produce viable strategic sourcing strategies

Desirable

1. Previous experience in Category Management or strategic procurement
2. MCIPS

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 Procurement Strategy Team

The Procurement Strategy team is a key part of the Supply Chain function, playing an important role in supporting all Submarines programmes at our Barrow site. The team is responsible for category management and supplier strategies, working in collaboration with programme teams and the Submarines Enterprise to deliver strategic sourcing solutions that drive value, innovation, and increase performance. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 fulfil 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: 24th 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.