Project Procurement Manager in Bristol

Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of mission-critical supply chains. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Project Procurement Manager at Babcock Mission Systems, near Bristol, Gloucestershire. As a Project Procurement Manager within Mission Systems, you'll join a forward-thinking international organisation that's continually innovating to support defence, aerospace and engineering programmes that matter.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead procurement activity across complex projects, influence strategic supplier relationships, and help deliver solutions that contribute to national security. You'll play a key role in generating value, improving supplier performance, and strengthening supply chain resilience, while developing your own leadership capability within a business that invests in its people.

The role:

• Lead procurement strategy and supplier engagement across key projects, ensuring the right products and services are delivered at the right cost, quality and time.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers to drive operational excellence, innovation, and long-term value creation throughout the supply chain.
• Leading supply chain activity across designated projects, ensuring delivery against customer requirements.
• Managing and developing a team of procurement professionals, including Buyers and Senior Buyers.
• Negotiating and selecting suppliers for major procurement programmes and strategic spend categories.
• Driving supplier performance improvements and resolving commercial or operational issues.
• Building strong cross-functional relationships and identifying innovative supply chain solutions.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 1 or 2 days in the office and 2 or 3 days working from home.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrating significant experience within procurement, supply chain management, commercial, engineering, or operational environments.
• Building and managing effective supplier relationships to deliver value and performance improvements.
• Leading teams and developing procurement professionals to achieve business objectives.
• Managing complex negotiations and supplier selection activities.
• Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders across multiple business functions.

Qualifications:

• Membership of a relevant professional body e.g. CIPS at level 5 or above is advantageous but not essential.

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions.

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 allows 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 to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
• Flexible working options to better integrate work and personal life.
• A dynamic working environment.

Babcock is 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 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: 13/08/2026