Principal Supply Chain Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Supply Chain Manager

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: From £70,865 depending on skills and experience plus executive car allowance

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing, maintaining, leading and managing a cross-functional team that delivers significant supplier infrastructure change programmes
• Delivering capacity and capability programmes to support the transformation objectives
• Leading activities related to strategic investment decisions across the supply chain
• Driving the implementation of approved investment plans to enable accelerated output
• Managing complex supplier relationships
• Managing complex supplier programmes from sourcing through to full implementation
• Leading regular reviews, performance metrics to ensure alignment with strategic objectives, actively supporting and contributing to senior leadership forums and functional review meetings by preparing and presenting key data insights and performance trends

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven experience in supplier relationship management, with the ability to influence and drive performance
• Considerable track record in delivering complex supply chain programmes across multiple stakeholders
• Previous leadership experience, with confidence in engaging and presenting to senior stakeholders
• Exposure to capital investment and supply chain transformation initiatives is highly desirable
• MCIPS qualification or equivalent experience in procurement and supply chain management
• Flexible to travel as per business needs

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Capability, Capacity & Resilience Supply Chain team:

Join a high‑impact team driving a major business transformation. You’ll lead critical supply‑chain investment programmes, strengthen supplier partnerships, and help reshape our production rhythm as we target a bold step‑change in output. Working across integrated, cross‑functional teams, you’ll tackle complex challenges, challenge assumptions, and build future‑ready capability. This is a chance to collaborate, influence real change, and make a lasting impact on our success. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 24th February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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