Supply Chain Analyst

weServed; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Discount and wellbeing portal

Job summary

Babcock at Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth seeks a Supply Chain Analyst to strengthen resilience by collecting, validating and analysing data from multiple sources to support risk management and strategic decisions.

You will map supply chains, identify critical suppliers, and work with internal stakeholders and MoD personnel to drive improvements in a highly regulated defence environment. The role is hybrid with strong Excel/VBA usage and BI development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with formulas and VBA.
• Experience managing and maintaining databases.
• Ability to manage complex datasets and transform them into meaningful management information.
• Understanding of supply chain relationships, KPIs and factors influencing performance.
• Experience in defence, submarine enterprise or similar complex environments beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Analysing and interpreting supply chain data to produce meaningful management information and actionable insights.
• Developing and maintaining detailed supply chain maps using mapping software and analytical tools.
• Identifying critical suppliers, dependencies, vulnerabilities and potential points of failure across the supply chain.
• Supporting the identification, assessment and monitoring of supply chain risks to improve resilience and assurance.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, suppliers and MoD personnel to support supply chain improvement initiatives.

Skills

Advanced Excel (incl. VBA)

Database management

Data transformation to management info

Supply chain knowledge

Defence sector awareness (beneficial)

Education

Degree in Analytics or related (Desirable)

Tools

Supply chain mapping software

Job description

Job Title: Supply Chain Analyst

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: £28,300 - £35,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76492

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 Supply Chain Analyst at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Supply Chain Analyst, you’ll play a key role in helping the Naval Nuclear business understand, assess and strengthen supply chain resilience. Working within a specialist team, you'll collect, validate and analyse data from multiple sources, transforming complex information into meaningful insights that support strategic decision-making and risk management.

Day-to-day, you’ll have an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with data, problem-solving and stakeholder engagement. You'll gain exposure to critical defence programmes while developing your analytical, supply chain and business intelligence expertise within a highly regulated and fast-moving environment.

• Analysing and interpreting supply chain data to produce meaningful management information and actionable insights.
• Developing and maintaining detailed supply chain maps using Babcock's supply chain mapping software and analytical tools.
• Identifying critical suppliers, dependencies, vulnerabilities and potential points of failure across the supply chain.
• Supporting the identification, assessment and monitoring of supply chain risks to improve resilience and assurance activities.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, suppliers and Ministry of Defence personnel to support supply chain improvement initiatives.

This role is full time 35, hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Supply Chain Analyst

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the use of formulas and VBA.
• Experience managing and maintaining databases.
• Ability to manage complex datasets and transform them into meaningful management information.
• Understanding of supply chain relationships, key performance indicators and factors influencing supply chain performance.
• Experience within the defence sector, submarine enterprise or a similarly complex environment would be beneficial.

Qualifications for the Supply Chain Analyst

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.

• Degree in Analytics or a related discipline - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 27/10/2026

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