Strategic Sourcing Specialist
// Role Summary
Shape critical defence supply chains as a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, developing sourcing strategies and managing supplier relationships for major programmes at Babcock. This full-time, permanent role offers hybrid working arrangements and significant career development opportunities.
// Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement strategic sourcing and supply chain strategies for new business opportunities.
- Lead end-to-end procurement activities including tenders, negotiations, and contract implementation.
- Manage supplier relationships, drive performance, and mitigate commercial risk.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver effective supply chain solutions.
- Requires ability to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
- Offers hybrid working, competitive salary, and comprehensive benefits package.
// Role Specification
Strategic Sourcing Specialist
Shape the supply chains behind critical programmes and help secure the future of defence and engineering projects. At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Strategic Sourcing Specialist.
This role can be based anywhere in the UK, with regular travel to Bristol and other Babcock sites, including Rosyth, Walsall, Andover and Donnington, as well as supplier locations when required. The role is full time, 37 hours per week, with hybrid working patterns available. Office attendance is required as business needs dictate.
The Role
As a Strategic Sourcing Specialist, you'll play a key role in supporting business growth by developing sourcing strategies and supplier solutions for major bids, projects, and programmes across the organisation. Working within our procurement function, you'll help identify and engage capable suppliers, lead sourcing activities, manage commercial risk, and deliver value-driven solutions that support future contract wins and successful programme delivery. This is an exciting opportunity to influence strategic business decisions while developing your procurement and supply chain expertise within a global organisation.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Developing sourcing and supply chain strategies that support new business opportunities and bid activity.
- Leading supplier selection, tendering, negotiations, and contract implementation activities.
- Building and maintaining strong supplier relationships to drive performance, value, and risk management.
- Conducting supplier due diligence and ensuring compliance with company, legal, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborating with procurement, commercial, engineering, and project teams to deliver effective supply chain solutions.
Essential Experience:
- Experience working within procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing.
- Experience developing sourcing strategies across a range of goods and services.
- Experience managing end-to-end procurement activities, including tenders, supplier negotiations, and contract implementation.
- Experience managing supplier relationships and driving supplier performance improvements.
- Experience working with a variety of stakeholders to achieve commercial and operational objectives.
Qualifications:
- Degree qualification or equivalent experience within procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing.
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel when required.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
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.
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.
- ‘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.
About 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: 12/10/2026