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Procurement Specialist
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Job Title: Procurement Specialist
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £39,000 - £46,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72624
Drive smarter supply chains that protect what matters most
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 Specialist at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
Babcock is a trusted partner to governments and organisations across defence, aerospace and engineering. Our people are at the heart of everything we do — delivering complex programmes, enabling national security and supporting critical infrastructure that society relies on every day.
The role
As a Procurement Specialist, you’ll play a vital role supporting high-value infrastructure and engineering projects at HMNB Clyde. You’ll ensure the right goods and services are secured at the right time, cost and quality — all while maintaining compliance, managing risk and driving value for money.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a complex, high-impact environment where your expertise directly influences operational success and long-term capability. You’ll partner closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers, contribute to continuous improvement, and develop your commercial skills across regulated defence procurement.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Supporting procurement activity for projects and requirements valued over £10,000, from requisition through to purchase order
- Managing supplier relationships, performance, and order books, resolving aged debt and delivery issues
- Delivering competitive tendering activities, including evaluation, scoring, negotiation and contract award
- Driving cost savings, risk mitigation and value through data analysis, due diligence and continual improvement
- Ensuring full compliance with supply chain governance, policy, contract terms and security requirements.
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This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Procurement Specialist:
- Working within structured supply chain or procurement processes in a regulated environment
- Applying contractual terms, supply chain clauses and governance frameworks effectively
- Using enterprise systems and tools for procurement, document control and supplier management
- Analysing data to identify efficiencies, risks and cost-saving opportunities
- Conducting supplier due diligence, onboarding and ongoing performance management
Qualifications for the Procurement Specialist:
- Qualified by experience in procurement, supply chain or a commercial discipline
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.
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.
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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: 01/09/2026
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