Description
Job Title: Graduate Shared Services Procurement
Location: Preston (Lancashire)
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements, however for this role you will be expected to attend your site 3-4 days per week.
Salary: £34,000 + £2,000 Welcome Bonus
What You’ll Be Doing
* Engaging with stakeholders across all business units to develop and deliver our global procurement strategies.
* Supporting negotiations on existing and new contracts to ensure best cost / service solution to the business whilst striving for World Class solutions.
* Managing suppliers to ensure there is a professional and effective business relationship with necessary metrics in place
* Performing elements of operational procurement such as requisition and invoice approval.
* Being involved at all stages of project lifecycles, starting with stakeholder and demand management, sourcing and tendering and contract negotiation.
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Shared Services Team
We are home to experts and leaders in their fields who manage some of today’s toughest challenges, delivering the most complex programmes, generating critical export growth and supporting thousands of advanced engineering jobs distributed throughout the UK.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Qualification Requirements
As a minimum requirement you’ll need to have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2.2 in your Bachelor’s or Master’s degree preferably in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Construction, Quantity Surveying and Technology.
Start date (dd Month Year) 7th September 2026 Length of contract Permanent contract