Procurement & Supply Chain Specialist

Job Title:                     Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist

Location:                     Leicester, Leicestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £40,000 - £50,000 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF74170

Shape Supply Chains That Power Critical National Projects 

At Cavendish Nuclear, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist at our Leicester, Leicestershire site.

The Role

As a Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in delivering end-to-end procurement, supply chain, and logistics solutions that directly support critical nuclear and defence projects. This is an exciting opportunity to influence how complex programmes are delivered—ensuring the right materials, partners, and strategies are in place to keep operations running safely, efficiently, and on time.

You will collaborate across teams and with external suppliers to create integrated supply chain strategies, drive value, and reduce risk.   In doing so, you will develop your expertise in strategic sourcing, contract management, and supplier relationships within a highly regulated, purpose-driven environment.

The role is full time, 37 hours per week, based at our Leicester, Leicestershire site. Hybrid working patterns are available - three days in the office and two days at home but can be flexible.

Day-to-day, you will be required to:

• Deliver the full procurement lifecycle, from strategy development to contract implementation and supplier management
• Manage supplier relationships, performance, and sourcing activities to ensure operational success
• Support the development of supply chain strategies that align with project and business requirements
• Drive continuous improvement across logistics and material flow processes
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders and external partners to add value and mitigate risk

Essential experience of the Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist:

• Demonstrating experience working in cross-functional teams with strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Applying knowledge of end-to-end sourcing and supplier management processes
• Managing supply arrangements, supplier performance, and delivery scheduling
• Interpreting and applying contract terms, including drafting subcontract agreements
• Showing familiarity with NEC contract models (desirable) 

Qualifications of the Procurement and Supply Chain Specialist:

• Hold a recognised professional procurement or supply chain qualification (such as CIPS or MCIPS), or working towards one

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain UK - Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.  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 UK Cavendish 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

Cavendish

We’re Cavendish Nuclear — a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we’re shaping a future that lasts — not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

Join us and discover 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:   18/06/2026

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