Strategic Sourcing Specialist

weServed; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave - 10 days

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to shape procurement strategy across a large defence and engineering organisation. Based in the UK with hybrid working, you will influence sourcing decisions and lead supplier partnerships to deliver commercial value.

Day-to-day, you will develop sourcing plans, manage supplier selection, negotiate contracts, and report to senior stakeholders. This is a fixed-term, full-time role, requiring SC clearance eligibility.

Qualifications

• End-to-end procurement experience within a complex organisation.
• Proven experience of strategic sourcing and category management activities.
• Experience of supplier relationship management and performance improvement.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Experience delivering procurement projects and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Developing and delivering strategic sourcing plans that support business objectives and future growth.
• Managing supplier selection processes, tendering activities, negotiations, and contract awards.
• Building strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders across multiple business areas.
• Monitoring supplier performance against agreed service levels and key performance indicators.
• Producing procurement reports and presenting sourcing recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Skills

End-to-end procurement

Strategic sourcing

Supplier relationship management

Stakeholder engagement

Procurement project delivery

Education

CIPS or MCIPS qualification

Job description

Job Title: Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Location: UK, Flexible + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Up to £45,000 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF75622

Shape the future of strategic procurement across a major defence and engineering organisation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Strategic Sourcing Specialist based in Donnington, Portsmouth or Andover.

The role

This is a unique opportunity to influence strategic procurement decisions across a large and complex organisation. As a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you will play a key role in developing sourcing strategies, delivering commercial value, and strengthening supplier partnerships that support both current operations and future growth.

Working across the Land Sector, you will collaborate with a wide range of internal stakeholders and suppliers to identify opportunities, improve supply chain performance, and contribute to major contract opportunities. This is a highly visible role that combines strategic thinking with hands-on procurement delivery, giving you the chance to make a real impact while developing your career within a leading international organisation.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Developing and delivering strategic sourcing plans that support business objectives and future growth
• Managing supplier selection processes, tendering activities, negotiations, and contract awards
• Building strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders across multiple business areas
• Monitoring supplier performance against agreed service levels and key performance indicators
• Producing procurement reports and presenting sourcing recommendations to senior stakeholders.

This role is based at Donnington, Portsmouth or Andover, with hybrid working available and an expectation of 1 to 2 days per week on site, depending on business requirements. The role is a fixed term contract for 12 months, working full-time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Essential experience of the Strategic Sourcing Specialist:

• End-to-end procurement experience within a complex organisation
• Proven experience of strategic sourcing and category management activities
• Experience of supplier relationship management and performance improvement
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Experience delivering procurement projects and commercial outcomes.

Qualifications for the Strategic Sourcing Specialist:

CIPS or MCIPS qualification, or working towards certification, would be advantageous.

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

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 03/09/2026