Project Procurement Specialist

Job Title:                     Project Procurement Specialist

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £33,900 - £42,400 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF76254

Help shape one of the UK’s most critical defence programmes

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 Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Project Procurement Specialist, you’ll join a team at the heart of major maintenance, deep maintenance and decommissioning programmes supporting the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on national security while developing your procurement and supply chain expertise within one of the UK's largest and most complex engineering

Day-to-day, you’ll take ownership of the supply chain strategy, delivery and performance for key project activities across our submarine programmes. Working closely with project teams, suppliers and stakeholders, you'll help ensure that critical materials and subcontract services are delivered safely, efficiently and on time.

• Managing procurement and supply chain activities for assigned submarine programme projects.


• Developing and implementing sourcing strategies for materials and subcontracted services.


• Building effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to support project delivery.


• Monitoring supplier performance and driving improvements across quality, cost and delivery objectives.


• Supporting commercial and procurement governance activities while ensuring compliance with business requirements.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Project Procurement Specialist

• Proven experience in procurement and supply chain management.


• Demonstrable experience managing supplier relationships and procurement activities within complex project environments.


• Experience supporting supply chain planning, execution and performance management.


• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.


• Ability to work effectively across multiple priorities in a fast-paced operational environment.

Qualifications for the Project Procurement Specialist

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Strong computer literacy and proficiency with business systems and Microsoft Office applications.


• Degree qualified or equivalent experience - Desirable


• CIPS qualification, or working towards CIPS membership, or an equivalent professional qualification - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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 [email protected] 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: 22/10/2026

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