Procurement Enablement Specialist

Job Title:                     Procurement Enablement Specialist

Location:                     Lakeside, Portsmouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF72071

Help Shape the Future of Procurement Excellence

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Procurement Enablement Specialist at Lakeside, near Portsmouth, Hampshire.

The role

As a Procurement Enablement Specialist, you’ll play a key role in supporting and enhancing our Requisition‑to‑Pay (R2P) process across the business. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the way we manage procurement activity, ensuring our systems, controls and user experience remain effective, compliant and continuously improving.

This role offers exceptional exposure across the organisation, enabling you to build strong partnerships with stakeholders, develop specialist system knowledge, and grow your career within a dynamic environment that values innovation and continuous improvement.

Day-to-day, your work will directly contribute to the efficiency of our operations, supporting critical defence, engineering and aerospace programmes that help keep people, assets and nations safe.

• Provide day‑to‑day support to ensure our R2P process aligns with procurement policies and compliance requirements.
• Manage requisitioner access rights, primarily within Coupa and associated procurement systems.
• Arrange and deliver training sessions, maintaining high‑quality training materials and documentation.
• Monitor communication channels for requisitioner, supplier and content queries, ensuring prompt and helpful responses.
• Support users and stakeholders to maintain smooth transactional flow and excellent system experience.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with visiting onsite once a month and the other days working from home.

Essential experience of the Procurement Enablement Specialist

• Detailed knowledge and experience of working with the Requisition‑to‑Pay process.
• Strong proficiency with Excel.
• Experience implementing Coupa, including catalogue, form and questionnaire setup.
• Ability to meet and exceed deadlines and performance targets.
• Experience managing high volumes of work and balancing multiple priorities effectively.

Qualifications for the Procurement Enablement Specialist

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 – buy additional leave or sell up to one working week
• ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day per year
• Flexible working options
• A dynamic working environment that encourages innovation, collaboration and career progression

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: 16/03/2026