Procurement Manager Contracts

Job Title:                      Procurement Manager Contracts

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            £56,570 - £66,229 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF77002

Shape the supply chain behind the Royal Navy’s next generation of warships

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 Contracts at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Procurement Manager Contracts, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a pivotal role in one of the UK's most exciting defence programmes, supporting the delivery of five warships for the Royal Navy. Working within our Procurement and Supply Chain team, you'll be responsible for leading the procurement and contract management of complex work packages from initial sourcing through to contract closure, ensuring suppliers deliver against project cost, schedule and quality objectives.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Managing supplier performance, progress and contractual deliverables to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Leading contract negotiations to achieve commercially effective solutions while minimising risk and maximising value.
• Managing contract changes, risks and mitigation activities to support cost, schedule and quality requirements.
• Developing strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to drive operational excellence.
• Delivering regular performance reporting and ensuring the successful delivery of high-value procurement packages.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday with an early finish on Fridays. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to supplier locations will be expected as required.

Essential experience of the Procurement Manager Contracts

• Experience managing procurement, contracts, supplier performance or commercial work packages within a complex project environment.
• Proven ability to lead supplier negotiations and secure commercially advantageous outcomes.
• Experience managing contract change, risk identification and mitigation activities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence suppliers and internal teams.
• Experience managing high-value, complex contracts and work packages, ideally within engineering, construction, manufacturing, infrastructure or defence environments.

Qualifications for the Procurement Manager Contracts

• Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience within a procurement, contract management, supply chain or project delivery environment.
• Project Management qualification or equivalent professional certification.
• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply 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 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 26/11/2026

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