Procurement Manager
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £51,000 to £61,500 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Additional Benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 July 2025 |
| Location: | Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute, G84 8HL |
| Company: | Babcock International Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 64343_1750926155 |
Summary
Job Title: Procurement Manager
Location: Faslane (with hybrid working arrangements)
Compensation: Up to £61,400
Role Type: Full Time
Role ID: 64343
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 - Fleet at our Faslane, Hamilton, or Glasgow office.
The role
As a Procurement Manager - Fleet, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. As part of the Fleet organisation, the Procurement Manager will have overall accountability, governance for the supply chain design, execution, and performance of sub contract services as well as material supply for all Fleet (Submarine)/ project(s) across Clyde.
Day to day, your responsibility will be to:
- Deliver strategic and operational procurement value aligned with business goals.
- Lead the design, execution, and performance of supply chains for submarine projects across Clyde.
- Manage supplier relationships and contract performance to ensure delivery to time, cost, and quality.
- Develop and implement supply chain strategies and best practices.
- Support the Head of Procurement & Supply Chain in developing team capability and functional excellence.
- This role is full time (36 hours) Monday to Thursday and will be based at one of our locations: Faslane, Hamilton, or Glasgow. The role offers hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Procurement Manager - Fleet:
- Extensive experience in strategic procurement and supply chain management.
- Proven track record in complex, fast-paced project environments.
- Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills.
- Experience in supplier performance management and contract drafting.
- Ability to influence and lead change initiatives.
Qualifications for the Procurement Manager - Fleet:
- Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
- MCIPS preferred.
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 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.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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 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.
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