Job Title: Supply Chain Team Lead
Location: Portsmouth, Lakeside + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead high-performing teams that power critical national operations
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Supply Chain Team Leader at Portsmouth.
The role
As a Supply Chain Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in leading and developing a high-performing team responsible for delivering critical procurement and supply chain operations. Supporting complex defence, aerospace and engineering programmes, your work will ensure materials, services and systems are delivered efficiently helping us meet the needs of national security and public infrastructure.
This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a leadership role where you’ll drive performance, shape processes and influence continuous improvement. You’ll develop your management capability while working in a dynamic, collaborative environment that values innovation, accountability and growth.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
1. Leading and developing a team of Supply Chain Coordinators to achieve business and personal objectives
2. Overseeing open order management, requisition to purchase order conversion and invoice query resolution
3. Monitoring team performance against key performance indicators and service level agreements
4. Identifying and implementing process improvements to drive efficiency and best practice
5. Collaborating with finance and procurement teams to support accurate reporting and forecasting
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Supply Chain Team Lead
6. Proven experience within supply chain or procurement operations
7. Demonstrable experience managing or leading teams in a fast-paced environment
8. Strong knowledge of order management, goods received processes and invoice resolution
9. Ability to analyse data, produce reports and communicate insights effectively
10. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Qualifications for the Supply Chain Team Lead
11. GCSE Grade C or above in Maths and English, or equivalent.
Desirable:
12. CIPS qualification or equivalent.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check 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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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