Inventory Manager

Job Title:                     Inventory Manager

Location:                     Hawthorn, Corsham + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74766

Help keep critical programmes moving through world-class inventory and supply chain leadership

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Inventory Manager at Hawthorn, Bristol, or Devonport.

As part of our Mission Systems business, you'll join a team supporting vital defence and engineering programmes that help protect national security. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your inventory, supply chain and stakeholder management expertise in a role where your work directly contributes to operational readiness, customer satisfaction and business performance.

The role

As an Inventory Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring the effective management of inventory, spares and repairs across a complex supply chain environment. Working closely with customers, procurement teams and operational stakeholders, you'll use data, insight and strong relationship-building skills to optimise inventory performance and support critical programme delivery.

This role offers excellent opportunities to broaden your supply chain, logistics and inventory management expertise within a leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Managing and maintaining the integrity of inventory data and inventory management systems.
• Monitoring and reporting performance against key internal and customer service level agreements and key performance indicators.
• Coordinating the end-to-end spares and repairs supply chain process, engaging stakeholders throughout.
• Supporting demand and supply planning by providing inventory insight, analysis and recommendations.
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives and overseeing stock movements between internal locations.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.  Some travel to other sites will be required.

Essential experience of the Inventory Manager

• Experience delivering excellent customer service in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience managing competing priorities with strong time and workload management skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications for the Inventory Manager

Desirable not essential:

• IT systems including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• ERP Systems – IFS & SAP knowledge would be advantageous.
• MoD SCM Skills Certificate Level 1
• Knowledge and experience of MoD systems (BIWMS, CRISP, SS3, JAMES) and processes (DLF)
• Ability to run presentations in front of a wide variety of stakeholders including senior leaders of the company and customer

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 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 16/07/2026

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