Job Description - Procurement Leader - Construction (00129166)
Job title: Procurement Leader - Construction
Location: Barrow-In-Furness - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Up to £58k depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
* Collaborates with the wider business and external professional teams to develop sourcing and contracting solutions for a 10+ year investment programme, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
* Produces and manages procurement plans, supports sourcing strategies with data, identifies risks and liabilities, and ensures compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements
* Leads end-to-end procurement processes, including tender pack development, evaluation, award, and supplier negotiations to achieve optimal commercial outcomes
* Supports development and implementation of supply chain strategies, providing commercial and supply chain expertise to delivery programmes
* Ensures high-quality sourcing and contracting documentation, incorporates life cycle costing principles, and contributes to Make vs Buy decisions during contractor selection
* Manages stakeholder communication effectively to gain buy-in for procurement strategies, resolve issues, and maintain flexibility across multi-functional projects
* Reports cost savings and cost avoidances, prioritises workloads, and contributes to bidding activities to meet budgets and business objectives
Your skills and experiences:
Experience working in supply chain for the construction industry
Detailed knowledge of JCT and NEC Construction contracts
An understanding of business and procurement approaches, techniques, processes, policy and strategy
Experience of contract and supplier performance management
MCIPS
Experience in public sector/regulated environments useful
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Procurement team:
Join a dynamic and rapidly growing team at the forefront of a once-in-a-generation infrastructure investment. You’ll be part of a programme delivering transformative change within an operational environment, ensuring continuity of services while driving major enhancements. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation and high-impact delivery, providing opportunities to shape processes, lead initiatives, and contribute to projects that will define the future of our infrastructure. This is a unique chance to be involved in a high-profile programme where your expertise and ideas will make a tangible difference.
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.
Closing Date: 2 nd September 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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