Programme Procurement Manager

As a Programme Procurement Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll lead the procurement responsibilities for the projects and programs you oversee, bringing together your team's ideas, successes, and challenges. You'll have the opportunity to turn your team's concepts into reality, developing strategies and coordinating with the Senior Leadership Team and other colleagues to implement changes and drive best practice procurement.

Day-to-day, you'll be responsible for the identification, initiation and implementation of effective and innovative procurement and supply chain solutions as well as:

• Leading and managing your strategic portfolio's Procurement and Supply Chain team


• Driving best practice, strategic sourcing, supplier development and performance monitoring and common sourcing initiatives throughout your team


• Ensuring that your team is working in a consistent, collaborative and proactive way across the business to develop supply chain strategies, activities and behaviours that will deliver on-going added value to the business


• Management of all commercial and contractual aspects relating to packages of work ensuring compliance with required corporate governance and approvals


• Ensuring that the company's commercial position is best protected and is properly reflected through contractual and transactional processes and by designing and implementing the right relationship management structures


This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with two days in the office/onsite and three days working from home.

Essential experience of the Programme Procurement Manager

• Experience of developing and implementing sound, pragmatic sourcing solutions in a complex, high integrity project based industry


• A significant track record in working with key internal and external stakeholders, to influence outcomes, identifies and secures opportunities to maximise value and minimise risk


• Experience of leading teams and developing the function


• Experience of working with sub-contract suppliers, particularly Original Equipment Manufacturers


• Development and practical application of supply strategies, strategic sourcing techniques and supply/supplier management


• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills


Qualifications for the Programme Procurement Manager

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent


• MCIPS qualified, working towards, or other equivalent professional qualifications


• Clean driving licence


Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.

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 Programme Procurement Manager at our Ashton House site.

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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Employee share scheme


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement


• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity


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