Supply Chain Team Lead in Portsmouth

Location: Portsmouth, Lakeside + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead high-performing teams that power critical national operations. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Supply Chain Team Leader at Portsmouth.

The role:

As a Supply Chain Team Leader, you’ll play a key role in leading and developing a high-performing team responsible for delivering critical procurement and supply chain operations. Supporting complex defence, aerospace and engineering programmes, your work will ensure materials, services and systems are delivered efficiently helping us meet the needs of national security and public infrastructure. This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a leadership role where you’ll drive performance, shape processes and influence continuous improvement. You’ll develop your management capability while working in a dynamic, collaborative environment that values innovation, accountability and growth.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be:

• Leading and developing a team of Supply Chain Coordinators to achieve business and personal objectives
• Overseeing open order management, requisition to purchase order conversion and invoice query resolution
• Monitoring team performance against key performance indicators and service level agreements
• Identifying and implementing process improvements to drive efficiency and best practice
• Collaborating with finance and procurement teams to support accurate reporting and forecasting

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Supply Chain Team Lead:

• Proven experience within supply chain or procurement operations
• Demonstrable experience managing or leading teams in a fast-paced environment
• Strong knowledge of order management, goods received processes and invoice resolution
• Ability to analyse data, produce reports and communicate insights effectively
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Qualifications for the Supply Chain Team Lead:

• GCSE Grade C or above in Maths and English, or equivalent.

Desirable:

• CIPS qualification or equivalent.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check 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.

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock We’re Babcock – a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 02/06/2026