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Job Title: Project Procurement Specialist

Compensation: Band 5 - £43,935

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65588

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Project Procurement Specialist at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Procurement Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The Submarine Supply Chain Team is part of the Procurement and Supply Chain function in the Naval Nuclear sector of Babcock. The team provides a comprehensive supply chain service to the Devonport submarine programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Establish project requirements, including those driven by the future bid pipeline.
• Design and engagement of a supply chain that meets project requirements.
• Support the delivery of project objectives through the rigorous management of contract and supplier performance
• Assuring Supplier Performance to time, cost and quality for contract requirements against scope of supplier responsibility.
• The Project Procurement Specialist will have responsibility for typically. £10m expenditure within the project(s) scope

This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 3 days flexible onsite at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Project Procurement Specialist:

• Experienced procurement practitioner with knowledge of current strategic procurement techniques and (Relevant experience in Sourcing & Procurement)
• Understanding of contract terms and conditions and the ability to manage subcontract terms including flow-down terms from customer contracts.
• Deep understanding of planning and implementing supply arrangements, managing supplier performance and scheduling of deliveries.
• Understanding of cost models, for example in relation to the NEC models, familiarity with accounting practices, commercial audits, forecasting and valuations and supplier costing models.
• Delivery focussed with a pragmatic, hands-on approach that enables strategies to be fully executed.

Qualifications for the Project Procurement Specialist:

• Qualified to degree level or equivalent. – Preferred
• CIPS or equivalent professional qualifications.

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. 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• 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 Babcock 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.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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.