Job Title: Procurement Manager Contracts
Location: Rosyth, Fife – Hybrid Working Patterns Available
Compensation: £56,570 - £66,229
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76789
Shape the future of naval defence through strategic supply chain leadership.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Procurement Manager Contracts at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife. This is an exciting opportunity to support one of the UK's most significant defence programmes, helping deliver the Type 31 frigates that will serve the Royal Navy for decades to come.
The role
As a Procurement Manager Contracts, you will play a critical role in the successful delivery of a major defence and engineering programme. You'll be accountable for the procurement, negotiation, contract management and performance delivery of complex work packages from initial sourcing through to contract closure.
This is an opportunity to influence strategic supplier relationships, manage high-value contracts and support the construction of five advanced warships for the Royal Navy. Working in a highly collaborative environment, you'll partner with project, engineering, commercial and supply chain teams to ensure suppliers deliver against cost, quality and schedule commitments. In return, you'll gain exposure to one of the UK's most prestigious naval programmes while developing your leadership, commercial and contract management expertise within a global defence organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading negotiations with suppliers to secure commercially advantageous contract outcomes while minimising risk.
- Managing supplier performance, progress and contractual deliverables to ensure project requirements are achieved.
- Driving the resolution of contract changes, claims, risks and commercial issues that could impact delivery.
- Building effective relationships with suppliers and stakeholders while providing regular progress updates and reporting.
- Directing suppliers to deliver equipment, materials, documentation and services in line with agreed quality, cost and schedule objectives.
This role is 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with an early finish on Fridays. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to supplier locations will be expected as required.
Essential experience of the Procurement Manager Contracts:
- Experience managing complex procurement, contract management or supply chain activities within large-scale projects.
- Proven capability in supplier negotiations, contract administration and commercial risk management.
- Experience managing high-value work packages and driving supplier performance against contractual obligations.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across project, commercial and operational teams.
- Experience identifying, managing and mitigating contract, supplier and project risks.
Qualifications for the Procurement Manager Contracts:
- Degree educated.
- A minimum of five years' experience within a similar commercial, procurement, contract management or project delivery environment.
- Project Management qualification or equivalent professional qualification.
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 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 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: 20/11/2026
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