Job Title: Procurement and Supply Chain Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Support the Procurement Strategy Powering Major Infrastructure for the UK Defence
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 and Supply Chain Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, you’ll lead critical procurement activity across Major Infrastructure Projects, ensuring the timely, cost‑effective and compliant acquisition of goods and services that support some of the UK’s most strategically important engineering programmes.
Day-to-day, you’ll develop procurement plans aligned with project priorities, oversee tendering and contracting for complex scopes of work, manage supplier performance and relationships and drive value across a diverse portfolio.
1. Developing and implementing procurement strategies aligned with project pipeline requirements.
2. Leading tendering activity, including market engagement, pre‑qualification, ITT preparation, evaluation and contract award.
3. Managing supplier relationships and performance, including conducting reviews and driving supplier development.
4. Ensuring full adherence to governance, compliance requirements and accurate procurement record‑keeping.
5. Acting as a key interface to internal teams, presenting procurement insights and supporting project delivery through effective stakeholder engagement.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Procurement and Supply Chain Manager
6. Proven experience in Procurement and Supply Chain management within construction or infrastructure sectors.
7. Strong understanding of procurement processes and the full procurement lifecycle (including NEC).
8. Experience leading tendering and contracting activities for goods and services.
9. Experience leading supplier performance reviews and development activities.
10. Experience supporting audits and implementing corrective actions.
11. Excellent negotiation, commercial and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications for the Procurement and Supply Chain Manager
12. Degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Business, Construction or a related field.
13. MCIPS or working towards chartered status.
14. NEC4 Accreditation - 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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