Project Procurement Manager

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

Job summary

A leading defense company is seeking a Project Procurement Manager to lead supplier performance and write supply chain strategies. This full-time role involves hybrid working arrangements and requires significant experience in procurement within an engineering environment, ideally within defence. The successful candidate must have strong leadership skills and be capable of achieving security clearance.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

10-days special paid leave for reservists

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Responsibilities

• Lead major supplier spends and supplier performance issues.
• Write strategies for supply chain.
• Assist with supplier development.
• Manage and develop internal relationships cross functionally.

Skills

Experience in engineering environment, ideally within Defence

Previous experience in a senior procurement role

Education

Degree qualified

CIPS level 4 or above

Job description

Project Procurement Manager

Job Title: Project Procurement Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64259

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 Project Procurement Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

Role

As a Project Procurement Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be a subject matter expert and supply chain lead for a large, complex, high value, classified project.

Day-to-day, you’ll personally lead major supplier spends and supplier performance issues to conclusion.

• Write strategies for supply chain
• Look at new supply chain solutions
• Assist with supplier development
• Manage and develop internal relationships cross functionally

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential Experience

• Experience in engineering environment, ideally within Defence
• Previous experience in a senior procurement role

Qualifications

• Ideally degree qualified
• Ideally hold CIPS level 4 or above

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 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
• 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
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• ‘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

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: 28/10/2025