Job Title: Procurement Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64220
Shape the future of critical engineering projects through strategic procurement excellence
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 at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.
As a Procurement Manager, you’ll lead a high-performing supply chain team that underpins some of the UK’s most significant engineering, marine and defence programmes. This is a role where your strategic thinking, leadership and commercial insight will help deliver complex projects that support national security, major infrastructure and front-line capability. You’ll influence how we source, negotiate and deliver critical products and services—making a genuine impact on the wider organisation, our customers and society.
You’ll also play a key role in shaping the future of our procurement function, developing the capability, processes and best practices needed to support evolving and demanding engineering programmes. It’s an ideal opportunity to grow as a leader while contributing to dynamic, purpose-driven work.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Lead and develop the supply chain team, ensuring the right resources, skills and performance levels are in place to support project, site and facilities management needs.
- Capture and translate project requirements into sourcing strategies that maximise supply chain performance while minimising risk and complexity.
- Manage and influence internal stakeholders, ensuring timely provision of key information to support robust subcontract development and delivery.
- Lead sourcing and tendering processes, delivering competitive and commercially sound contract solutions.
- Oversee supplier due diligence and onboarding, ensuring selected partners are compliant, capable and ready to trade.
This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week, based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available, with three days on-site each week.
Essential experience of the Procurement Manager:
- Experienced procurement practitioner with a strong understanding of strategic procurement techniques
- Background working in complex engineering or project environments
- Experience in capital expenditure equipment procurement and facilities management
- Proven ability to deliver strong supply chain performance and effective commercial outcomes.
Qualifications for the Procurement Manager:
- Degree level qualification or equivalent professional experience in engineering, manufacturing, commercial or related disciplines.
- MCIPS qualified or working towards MCIPS, or an equivalent professional certification.
- Knowledge of NEC3 contracting terms.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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.
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: 24/03/2026