Description
Procurement Development Leader - Submarines
Full time
Derby
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing business at a pivotal point in our functions Transformation Journey.
This role as Procurement Development Leader is within the Supply Chain Function team, which provides the wider Supply Chain teams with an essential range of Supply Chain support including Procurement process and systems governance, metrics and training, as well as specialist SME knowledge, and improvement projects.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.
We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.
We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.
We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.
Being a Procurement Development Leader provides opportunity to interface with all areas of the business, and at all levels, and so there is an abundance of potential career development opportunities to grow.
What we offer
We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.
What you will be doing
With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to learn and shape:
1. Processes and Procedures - Support the development and deployment of global purchasing processes, ensuring that they are fully integrated into the company's operating system (s). Where designated, you will support relevant process councils and audit activities
2. Purchasing Systems - Ensure data integrity of Purchasing systems, as well as providing assistance to the associated support network(s).
3. Support Networks - Train, coach and support a network of process and system super users in Purchasing processes, including compliance, improvement and management of data integrity.
4. Resource Management - You will support the embedding and the sustainment of a high performance culture within your team(s).
5. Change Management - Where designated, support the development and deployment of major functional change management projects within your business area.
6. Communication - Support the communication and execution of the functional vision, strategy and policies
7. Reporting - Support and co-ordinate operational reporting and data integrity as per the requirements of the business.
8. Programme management - Ensure projects are appropriately governed and structured to enable effective deployment of workstreams. Stakeholder Management - Nurture effective relationships with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external to the function in order to support functional priorities.
Who we’re looking for:
At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
To be successful in this role you will need to be:
9. Collaborative team member and fantastic team player
10. Impactful Influencer and Leader of change
11. Strong track record in Procurement and Supply Chain
12. Strong Commercial acumen
13. Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at
To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.
Job Category
Procurement
Posting Date
11 Jul 2025; 00:07
Posting End Date
18 Jul 2025