Job Description - Supply Chain Senior Manager - Future Programmes (00129161)

Supply Chain Senior Manager - Future Programmes - 00129161

Job title: Supply Chain Senior Manager – Future Programmes

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

Salary: £78,000+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

Work as part of the Future Support Programmes leadership team and an integral part of the capture team to ensure that supply chain inputs are provided and considered as part of the capture process

Supporting the development of the Capture Plan understanding the Win Strategy, Price to Win and the role of supply chain to support achievement of this

Collaborating with the supply chain team and suppliers to gather ideas, develop objectives, and create models that support the delivery of a high-quality bid or proposal, ensuring it meets requirements for resilience, availability, and agility

Supporting stakeholder management across all relevant levels of the business and leading supply chain interactions, with backing from the wider team where needed

Leading the development and delivery of supply chain strategy, governance, and change initiatives, ensuring consistent improvement across procurement, warehousing, transport, and logistics, while promoting continuous improvement and best practice sharing

Manage priorities effectively by delegating tasks across a matrix team, ensuring work is delivered efficiently and on time

Deputising for the Supply Chain Director on business winning activities when required

Your skills and experiences:

Substantial supply chain experience working within early life cycle programmes, with some experience working across the wider supply chain discipline structure

Proven experience of business winning methodologies, e.g. bid to win, price to win

Significant experience of strategic cost management tools and techniques

Demonstrate leadership capability working in a complex business environment and setting operational direction

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The team:

This is a high-impact role working as part of the Future Support Programmes leadership team, responsible for shaping strategic supply chain inputs into long-term capture activities. You will play a key role in influencing early customer engagement, helping to design contract solutions that maximise BAE’s supply chain leverage. Acting as the senior supply chain lead, you’ll ensure that supplier strategies are embedded into winning bids, while also driving innovation, governance, and collaboration.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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: 21 st August 2025

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.