Senior Supply Chain Principal

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Supply Chain Principal

Salary: Up to £48,000 dependent on skills and experience

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

What you’ll be doing:

• Deliver effective customer and supplier relationship management maintaining good and effective relationships and building new ones for tactical and strategic bid opportunities
• Undertaking assessments of suppliers to determine capability, capacity and suitability for new requirements
• Developing and managing relationships with current and new suppliers, building brand and business opportunities whilst building an excellent understanding of the industry to identify partnering solutions
• Determining and executing sourcing strategies within allocated category, including leading price and contractual negotiations
• Leading supplier approval and on boarding process in collaboration with supporting functions
• Raising and managing Purchase Orders within SAP, ensuring timely supply reported in the Open Order Book (OOB) and O Time In Full (OTIF) trackers, compliance with procedures and effective supplier coordination.
• Adhering to Supply Chain/Supplier governance such as supplier accreditations and export controls
• Be seen by internal and external stakeholders as a subject expert for supply chain within a business. Foster a proactive relationship across multiple disciplines, businesses and within the customer base
• Ensure Procurement savings are accurately identified, recoded, validated and reported, supporting financial transparency and value for money

Your skills and experiences:

• The role requires broad Supply Chain knowledge & expertise, including good business, market and competitor knowledge, as well as depth of vision and creativity; plus, an ability to develop Supply Chain strategy to support business objectives
• Considerable commercial awareness and ability to create and negotiate terms and conditions
• The ability to utilise and interpret financial data and performance measures
• Supply Chain functional people, process and performance knowledge to develop the function using enabling technologies to exceed or meet the corporate business objectives.
• Working understanding of tool sets and IT

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 UK Equipment Management Team:

This is an exciting role within the UK Equipment Management team for Warship Support at our site in Portsmouth. As a Supply Chain Principal, you will be responsible for the procurement of simple spares to complex upgrades, refits and life extension programmes. Our global resources, skills and experience, as well as our extensive

network of approved and assured suppliers, means we’re able to offer total, fully-integrated and innovative equipment management solutions anywhere in the world.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to make a big impact within a small team, owning the end to end supply chain within an exciting and growing business. The extensive exposure gained across multiple business areas within Maritime Services will provide the successful candidate with the opportunity to develop their career further within BAE Systems.

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: 29th January 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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