Procurement Leader

Job Description

Job Title: Procurement Leader

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 £47,271 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading Supply Chain/Procurement activities within your area of responsibility, fostering a culture of added value while driving excellence across People, Process, Technology, and Governance to ensure the Supply Chain function remains fit for the future
• Procurement & contract management activites for major subcontract, including all commercial and cost matters
• Collaborating extensively with Customer and Engineering stakeholders, you will influence supplier selection, formulate procurement strategies, negotiate contractual Terms & Conditions, and administer contract performance
• Providing expert advice on sourcing feasibility, risk mitigation, cost efficiency, and manufacturability, while championing emerging technologies and specialist capability development
• Communication of your areas SC activities when informing cross-functional and external stakeholders of performance, threats & failures
• Managing supplier relationships, promoting our strategic and collaborative behaviours

Your skills and experiences:

• Supply Chain, Procurement or Commercial experience within major subcontracts with a CIPs qualification or working towards
• Proven experience in maintaining strategic supplier relationships and engaging partners early in the lifecycle/development phase to drive collaboration and long-term value
• Detailed understanding and experience of supplier risk and opportunity coordination
• Negotiation and influencing skills with experience of price and contractual terms and conditions negotiations
• Ability to compile data, interpret and propose recommendations through reports and presentations

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 Platform Management Control & Instrumentation team:

Step into a role where your expertise in procurement directly supports a team at the heart of the Dreadnought programme. You’ll be working alongside a talented group responsible for the delivery of highly complex software and hardware control systems to support platform management of the vessel . This is a team that thrives on complexity, collaboration, and innovation. They work closely with project managers and engineering specialists to bring highly technical solutions to life, adapting quickly to the evolving needs of the programme. 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: 19th 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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