Procurement and Supply Chain Director

Job Title:              Procurement and Supply Chain Director
Location:              United Kingdom + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                SF57018

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 and Supply Chain Director at any number of our sites.

The Role
As a Procurement and Supply Chain Director, 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 Chief Executive of the Land Sector, you will be a core member of both the Procurement and Supply Chain Leadership Team for Babcock and the Leadership team for the Land Sector; being responsible for an area with a spend of circa £600 million per year, 300 heads, 9 of which are direct reports and approximately 3000 suppliers on a complex supply chain.

Day-to-day, you’ll be ensuring that Procurement and Supply Chain resources are directed and focused on the delivery of Customer Programmes, while demonstrating collaboration and support for Procurement and Supply Chain Functional transformation activities in your area of responsibility:

• Build strong Stakeholder partnerships within the Land Sector.
• Leverage the support of Procurement and Supply Chain Value Streams.
• Build a performance culture that delivers outcomes for Babcock.
• Responsible for timely reporting & communication of Sector / Functional Performance & Results, both for Internal and external purposes.
• Responsible for defining, managing and optimising the functional budget for the Land Sector; in both Labour and non-Labour categories; balancing demands from the Sector with delivering ROI for the Function and Babcock.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

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 and Supply Chain Director: 

• Extensive experience as a director or similar, in a Procurement and Supply Chain function in a similar sized company.
• Demonstrable background in a similar / highly regulated industry.
• Communication and influencing skills.
• Experience of working with a full, end to end supply chain.
• Ideally, have exposure to public procurement but, this is not essential.

Qualifications for the Procurement and Supply Chain Director: 

• MCIPS, or other equivalent / similar professional qualifications are highly desirable but, not required.

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
• 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. 
• Flexible locations.
• A dynamic working environment. 
• Autonomy to perform the role.

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 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: 01/05/2024

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