Programme Procurement Manager

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

Job summary

A leading mission critical services provider seeks a Programme Procurement Manager for their Bristol site. You will lead the supply chain strategy, manage supplier performance, and ensure alignment with business needs. Ideal candidates have deep procurement experience and a proven track record in complex environments. This role offers competitive salary, hybrid working, and numerous employee benefits.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefits

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Experienced procurement practitioner with knowledge of current procurement techniques.
• Proven track record of delivering supply chain performance in complex environments.
• Deep understanding of contract terms and ability to draft subcontract terms.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational delivery of the supply chain strategy.
• Design and engage supply chains meeting programme requirements.
• Manage contract and supplier performance rigorously.

Skills

Strategic procurement techniques

Managing supplier performance

Cross-functional team collaboration

Job description

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Role Type: Full time / Permanent – Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Programme Procurement Manager at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.

The Role

The Programme Procurement Manager will lead the operational delivery of the supply chain strategy, ensuring it aligns with current and future business needs. You’ll shape procurement strategies to meet evolving programme demands, foster commercial value, and build enduring relationships with key suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Establish project requirements, including those driven by the future bid pipeline.
• Design and engage supply chains that meet programme requirements.
• Support the delivery of project objectives through rigorous management of contract and supplier performance.
• Assure Supplier Performance to time, cost and quality for contract requirements against scope of supplier responsibility.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home. This role also includes international travel, dependent on the work demands.

Essential Experience

• Experienced procurement practitioner with deep knowledge of current strategic procurement techniques.
• Extensive experience working in complex project environments and a proven track record of delivering excellent supply chain performance in a dynamic operational environment.
• Deep understanding of contract terms and conditions and the ability to draft subcontract terms, including management of flow-down terms from customer contracts.
• Deep understanding of planning and implementing supply arrangements, managing supplier performance and scheduling of deliveries on a global scale.
• Able to work in cross functional teams and manage senior stakeholders in an operational environment.

Qualifications

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. However, you will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) security clearance once in post. 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.