Supply Chain and Logistics Lead

weServed; Andover; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension & life cover

Digital health

Shopping portal

Professional fees

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in Andover, Hampshire, is seeking a Supply Chain and Logistics Lead to shape a future operating model for a major defence programme. The role is full-time with hybrid working and requires delivering integrated, scalable supply chain solutions.

You will design models, build capability roadmaps, and form strategic partnerships, working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and managing complex supply chain and logistics solutions.
• Strong analytical capabilities in demand forecasting and inventory optimisation.
• Experience in defence, government, aerospace, engineering or other regulated environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop future supply chain and logistics operating models by assessing current delivery arrangements and identifying opportunities for improvement across the wider enterprise.
• Design integrated solutions that align people, processes, systems and supply chain capabilities to deliver efficient and scalable outcomes.
• Create capability roadmaps, conduct gap analyses and define improvement activities to achieve future-state objectives.
• Establish and manage strategic partnerships and alliance arrangements to strengthen capability and service delivery.
• Collaborate with solution development teams and stakeholders to support business growth and successful programme delivery.

Job description

Job Title: Supply Chain and Logistics Lead

Location: Andover, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75727

Shape the Future of Defence Logistics

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 and Logistics Lead at our Andover site.

The role

As aSupply Chain and Logistics Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll have a rare opportunity to do more than manage an existing supply chain. You'll help design and deliver the future supply chain and logistics operating model for a major and complex land defence programme.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Developing future supply chain and logistics operating models by assessing current delivery arrangements and identifying opportunities for improvement across the wider enterprise.
• Designing integrated solutions that align people, processes, systems and supply chain capabilities to deliver efficient and scalable outcomes.
• Creating capability roadmaps, conducting gap analyses and defining improvement activities required to achieve future-state objectives.
• Establishing and managing strategic partnerships and alliance arrangements that strengthen capability and enhance service delivery.
• Collaborating with solution development teams and stakeholders to support business growth and successful programme delivery.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at Andover with hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Supply Chain and Logistics Lead

• Proven experience designing and managing complex supply chain and logistics solutions, including warehousing, distribution, inventory and supplier networks.
• Strong analytical expertise in demand forecasting, inventory optimisation, critical spares analysis and readiness-based stocking strategies.
• Experience within defence, government, aerospace, engineering, manufacturing or other highly regulated environments.
• Demonstrated success delivering solutions within complex programme environments while engaging a broad range of stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills with the ability to drive collaboration and continuous improvement.

Qualifications for the Supply Chain and Logistics Lead

• Degree qualified in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong knowledge of Through-Life Support and Integrated Logistics Support methodologies.
• Relevant professional qualifications in logistics, supply chain management or supportability engineering.

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 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 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: 15/10/2026

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