Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Title: Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Location: Warrington, WA3 6YD

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (minimum 3 days onsite)

Compensation: Attractive salary plus benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67974

Role

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, based at our Warrington, Cheshire site. As a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead the delivery of strategic and operational procurement excellence across a major project within Cavendish Nuclear. This is a high‑impact role where your decisions will shape the future of clean energy and defence, while supporting the UK’s nuclear infrastructure. Day‑to‑day, you’ll lead procurement and supply chain support for a major project. This is a full‑time role based in Warrington, Cheshire, with a 37‑hour working week, a hybrid working pattern requiring a minimum of three days onsite, and travel to customer sites may be required.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of supply chain professionals.
• Build strategic relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Contribute to the functional management team to deliver business goals.
• Collaborate with partners to shape and challenge business strategy and priorities.

Essential Experience

• Applying advanced stakeholder management and influencing techniques.
• Navigating complex stakeholder environments across multiple organisations.
• Delivering project goals through effective resource planning and contract management.
• Placing and managing NEC4 contracts.
• Writing procurement strategies, plans, and contract award recommendations.

Qualifications

• Ideally, you’ll hold a recognised professional procurement qualification such as CIPS or MCIPS, or an equivalent.

Benefits

• 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.

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 emailcareers@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.

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