Job Title: Procurement Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70735
Lead the Procurement Strategy Powering Major Infrastructure for the UK Defence
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 Procurement Manager at our Devonport royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Procurement Manager, you’ll lead critical procurement activity across Major Infrastructure Projects, ensuring the timely, cost‑effective and compliant acquisition of goods and services that support some of the UK’s most strategically important engineering programmes.
Day-to-day, you’ll develop procurement plans aligned with project priorities, oversee tendering and contracting for complex scopes of work, manage supplier performance and drive commercial value across a diverse portfolio.
- Developing and implementing procurement strategies aligned with project timelines, budgets and risk profiles.
- Leading tendering activity, including market engagement, pre‑qualification, ITT preparation, evaluation and contract award.
- Managing supplier relationships and performance, including conducting reviews and driving supplier development.
- Ensuring full adherence to governance, compliance requirements and accurate procurement record‑keeping.
- Acting as a key interface to internal teams, presenting procurement insights and supporting project delivery through effective stakeholder engagement.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Procurement Manager
- Proven experience in Procurement management within construction or infrastructure sectors.
- Strong understanding of procurement processes and the full procurement lifecycle (including NEC).
- Experience leading tendering and contracting activities for goods and services.
- Experience supporting audits and implementing corrective actions.
- Excellent negotiation, commercial and stakeholder management skills.
Qualifications for the Procurement Manager
- Degree in Procurement, Business, Construction or a related field.
- MCIPS or working towards chartered status.
- NEC4 Accreditation.
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
- 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 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
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: 19/04/2026
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