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Senior Head of Procurement & Supply Chain

Babcock International
£66,858 - £84,657 a year
Bristol, England
Full time
3 weeks ago

Senior Head of Procurement & Supply Chain

Location: Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Head of Procurement and Supply Chain
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65761

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 Senior Head of Procurement and Supply Chain at our Bristol site.

The Role
As a Senior Head of Procurement and Supply Chain, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Reporting to the Global Director of Procurement & Supply Chain for Babcock, and operationally to the Operations Director for Mission Systems, you will be a core member of both the P&SC Function and the Mission Systems business

Day-to-day, you’ll be ensuring that P&SC resources are directed and focused on the delivery of Customer Programmes and Opportunities, while demonstrating collaboration and support for P&SC Functional transformation activities in your area of responsibility.

  • Aligning to the key Business Priorities for Mission System, ensure appropriate focus, priority and resource are applied to operational and programme delivery across the Sector.
  • Timely reporting & communication of Sector / Functional Performance & Results, both for Internal and external purposes, leveraging the tools, systems and processes that are established to manage KPI and Approved Benefits.
  • Defining, managing and optimising the P&SC functional budget for Mission Systems; in both Labour and non-Labour categories; balancing demands from the Sector with delivering ROI for the Function and Babcock.
  • Ensure that P&SC Resources; in terms of skills, talent and availability are aligned with Sector, BU and Programme requirements.
  • Support Sector and Functional Talent Management activities; ensuring that staff Retention and development is evident and that the Functional Organisations aligned to Babcock's Role Framework.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Bristol on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential Experience of the Senior Head of Procurement and Supply Chain:
  • Significant experience of working in a large corporate environment.
  • C-suite stakeholder management both internally and externally.
  • Experience in a successful fast moving and highly critical services business sector.
  • Demonstrated capability in leading supplier performance improvement strategy & SRM.
  • Experience with complex and sizable / scale projects.

Qualifications for the Senior Head of Procurement and Supply Chain:
  • Ideally, hold CIPS accreditation or equivalent.
  • Six Sigma or equivalent CI qualification is 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we Offer:
  • Generous holiday allowance
  • Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
  • Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
  • 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
  • ‘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
  • Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing Date: 27/08/2025

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