Project Procurement Manager

Babcock International Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK is seeking a Procurement Manager to oversee supplier management for a complex project. This full-time role offers hybrid working arrangements, requiring both onsite and remote work. Candidates should have prior experience in procurement and ideally in an engineering environment. The position comes with a competitive salary, benefits, and excellent development opportunities.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Paid volunteering day

Holiday trading option

Professional fees payment

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead major supplier spends and supplier performance issues.
• Manage and develop internal relationships cross functionally.
• Assist with supplier development and explore new supply chain solutions.

Skills

Supplier management

Cross-functional collaboration

Supply chain strategy development

Education

CIPS level 4 or above

Degree qualified

Job description

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

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 Procurement Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.

The role
As a 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.

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

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 of the Procurement Manager

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

Qualifications for the Procurement Manager

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

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

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