Job Title: Senior Supply Chain Development Manager
Location: Bristol, Clyde, Leicester, Plymouth or Rosyth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: From £57,300 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73244
Shape supply chains that win and deliver 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 Senior Supply Chain Development Manager at one of our UK sites in Bristol, Clyde, Leicester, Plymouth or Rosyth.
The role
As a Senior Supply Chain Development Manager, you’ll operate at the forefront of business growth, shaping supply chain strategies that directly influence bid success and programme delivery. Working across complex defence opportunities, you’ll design innovative supply chain solutions that strengthen proposals, enhance competitiveness and enable future capability.
Day-to-day, you’ll have a unique opportunity to move beyond traditional supply chain delivery and play a key role in business winning. You will work closely with bid teams, senior stakeholders and suppliers to develop strategic approaches that position Babcock for long-term success in defence, engineering and infrastructure programmes.
- Developing supply chain strategies that support bids, tenders and long-term business opportunities
- Supporting the creation of high-quality proposals, including supplier engagement and customer-facing content
- Identifying and designing supply chain solutions, including partnerships, alliances and delivery models
- Analysing market and competitor capability to strengthen supply chain approaches and outcomes
- Building relationships across internal teams and suppliers to enable integrated and effective delivery
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Supply Chain Development Manager
- Extensive experience in supply chain management, procurement and strategic sourcing
- Strong commercial expertise including contract negotiation and financial understanding
- Experience supporting bids, tenders or business winning activities
- Ability to design innovative, data-driven supply chain solutions
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across complex organisations
Qualifications for the Senior Supply Chain Development Manager
- Degree (or equivalent) in Supply Chain Management or a related discipline
- Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply or equivalent professional qualification
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 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: 09/07/2026
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