Procurement Performance Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; West Devon; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking a Procurement Performance Manager to lead procurement operations and optimize supplier relationships. The ideal candidate will have significant procurement experience, strong analytical skills, and hands-on experience with tools like Power BI and SAP. This role offers hybrid working arrangements and a competitive salary package.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefits

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experience in a project procurement environment.
• Flexible approach to workload.
• Self-motivated and able to lead in a matrix environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement operations and performance.
• Manage procurement operations across functions.
• Drive delivery of benefit and savings targets.

Skills

Significant procurement experience

Strong analytical skills

Excellent stakeholder management

Hands-on experience with Power BI

Management experience

Education

Degree-level qualification

Tools

Power BI

SAP

Microsoft Office tools

Job description

Procurement Performance Manager

Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG
Bristol, GB, BS3 2HQ

Onsite or Hybrid:

Job Title: Procurement Performance Manager

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF69646

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 Performance Manager at Devonport or Ashton Vale, near Plymouth or Bristol.

The Role

As a Procurement Performance Manager, you’ll lead procurement operations and performance across Mission Systems, driving strategic capability forward in line with our five-year plan. This is a role where your expertise will deliver real impact - reducing costs, optimising supplier relationships, and shaping processes that support national security. It’s an opportunity to influence change, work on complex projects, and grow your career in a dynamic, future-focused environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead Mission Systems supply chain performance and deliver on our five-year procurement strategy.
• Manage and direct procurement operations, collaborating across functions to ensure success.
• Drive delivery of benefit and savings targets for Mission Systems.
• Collate and present performance reports for Group and Sector leadership.
• Champion process standardisation and act as Coupa lead for Group P&SC.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Procurement Performance Manager

• Significant procurement experience, ideally in a project procurement environment, including management experience.
• Strong analytical skills and excellent stakeholder management capabilities.
• Flexible approach to workload and ability to operate at all levels.
• Self-motivated with proven ability to lead and influence in a matrix environment.
• Hands-on experience with Power BI, IFS, SAP, and Microsoft Office tools.

Qualifications for the Procurement Performance Manager

• Degree-level qualification and/or relevant engineering, supply chain, or lean culture experience.
• Membership of a professional body such as CIPS Level 5 or above (advantageous but not essential).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 (www.gov.uk)

What We Offer

• 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 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 (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

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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: 27/11/2025

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