Job Title: Procurement Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64220
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 Manager at our Rosyth Dockyard site.
The role
As a Procurement Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be utilising your Procurement & Supply Chain experience in a leading role across a range of exciting projects on-site at Rosyth, ranging from facilities management initiatives to notable programmes offering a great opportunity for an experienced leader to join a dynamic environment and drive performance within a growing area of Babcock. Additionally, you will be responsible for leading and guiding a team of P&SC individuals of varying levels from Assistant Buyer to Senior Buyer; supporting them, coaching them and being part of their growth and development. Your team is fully embedded in the project areas under the remit of this role.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for developing and recommending sourcing strategies with senior stakeholders, negotiating major subcontracts, and cascading key contract terms to mitigate commercial risks alongside people management and development whilst maintaining functional and business compliance.
- Capture specific project requirements and build them into the supply chain strategy to meet requisites, maximise performance and reduce risk and complexity
- Lead and manage sourcing and tendering processes in accordance with agreed project deliverables
- Lead and manage sourcing and tendering processes aligned with agreed project deliverables
- Direct, influence, and manage all internal stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of key inputs that enable development and implementation of robust subcontracts and response strategies
- Support and execute supplier due diligence, onboarding, and qualification processes to ensure selected suppliers are approved and ready to trade
- Establishing supplier performance monitoring and development cost saving initiatives / opportunities
- Developing capability of the procurement function to meet current and future business requirements
- Leading a team of Supply Chain personnel with responsibility for their performance and professional development
This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and is based at Rosyth following a flexible hybrid working arrangement.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential Experience Of The Procurement Manager
- Experienced procurement practitioner with strong knowledge of current strategic procurement techniques
- Extensive experience operating in complex project environments
- Demonstrated experience with Capex equipment procurement and facilities management
- Experienced in Procurement & Supply Chain activities associated with Facilities Management (FM), both in Hard & Soft FM Services
- Proven track record of achieving outstanding supply chain performance
- Knowledge and practical understanding of the NEC3 suite of contracting terms is highly desirable
Qualifications For The Procurement Manager
- MCIPS qualified, working towards MCIPS, or holding an equivalent professional qualification
- Qualified to degree level or equivalent through work experience, ideally with a manufacturing or engineering background
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role and must be a sole UK national.
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
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 ten 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: 29/08/25
