Strategic Sourcing Specialist

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 62,000; 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

Volunteer paid leave

Job summary

Join Babcock as a Strategic Sourcing Specialist to shape sourcing for major bids and programmes across the organisation. You will develop sourcing strategies, lead supplier selection, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier performance while collaborating with procurement, commercial, engineering and project teams.

Regular travel to Bristol and other sites is expected, with a flexible hybrid pattern across the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing.
• Experience developing sourcing strategies across goods and services.
• End-to-end procurement including tenders, supplier negotiations, and contracts.
• Experience managing supplier relationships and driving improvements.
• Experience working with stakeholders to achieve commercial and operational objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop sourcing and supply chain strategies to support new business opportunities.
• Lead supplier selection, tendering, negotiations, and contract implementation.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to drive performance and risk management.
• Conduct supplier due diligence and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with procurement, commercial, engineering, and project teams to deliver supply chain solutions.

Skills

Procurement

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Stakeholder collaboration

Microsoft Office

Education

Degree in procurement or related

Tools

MS Office suite

Job description

Job Title: Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75444

Shape the supply chains behind critical programmes and help secure the future of defence and engineering projects.

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. This role can be based anywhere in the UK, with regular travel to Bristol and other Babcock sites, including Rosyth, Walsall, Andover and Donnington, as well as supplier locations when required.

The role

As a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you'll play a key role in supporting business growth by developing sourcing strategies and supplier solutions for major bids, projects, and programmes across the organisation.

Working within our procurement function, you'll help identify and engage capable suppliers, lead sourcing activities, manage commercial risk, and deliver value-driven solutions that support future contract wins and successful programme delivery. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic business decisions while developing your procurement and supply chain expertise within a global organisation.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Developing sourcing and supply chain strategies that support new business opportunities and bid activity.
• Leading supplier selection, tendering, negotiations, and contract implementation activities.
• Building and maintaining strong supplier relationships to drive performance, value, and risk management.
• Conducting supplier due diligence and ensuring compliance with company, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborating with procurement, commercial, engineering, and project teams to deliver effective supply chain solutions.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with office attendance required as business needs dictate.

Essential experience of the Strategic Sourcing Specialist:

• Experience working within procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing.
• Experience developing sourcing strategies across a range of goods and services.
• Experience managing end-to-end procurement activities, including tenders, supplier negotiations, and contract implementation.
• Experience managing supplier relationships and driving supplier performance improvements.
• Experience working with a variety of stakeholders to achieve commercial and operational objectives.

Qualifications for the Strategic Sourcing Specialist:

• Degree qualification or equivalent experience within procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel when required.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

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: 12/10/2026