Job Title: Inventory Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Take control of critical supply chains that keep vital defence operations running
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Inventory Manager at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.
The role
As an Inventory Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth and efficient flow of critical materials across complex defence supply chains. Supporting mission-critical operations, you’ll bring visibility, control, and intelligence to inventory management helping to meet customer demand, improve performance, and drive operational excellence.
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a dynamic environment where your expertise will directly support national defence programmes while developing your career in logistics, supply chain, and engineering support services.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
1. Managing inventory activities, including demand fulfilment, stock ordering, and disposal of surplus or unserviceable items
2. Coordinating the end-to-end spares and repairs supply chain process with internal and external stakeholders
3. Maintaining accurate inventory data and ensuring integrity across all systems
4. Monitoring and reporting performance against key performance indicators and service level agreements
5. Driving continuous improvement of inventory processes, procedures, and supply chain efficiency
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Inventory Manager
6. Demonstrating experience in inventory or supply chain management
7. Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders and customers
8. Delivering excellent customer service in a fast-paced environment
9. Managing workloads effectively and prioritising competing demands
10. Communicating clearly and confidently, both verbally and in writing
Qualifications for the Inventory Manager
11. Strong IT skills including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and systems such as SAP or IFS (essential)
12. Knowledge of Ministry of Defence inventory systems and processes (desirable)
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 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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