About

• Job Title: Procurement Manager – Plant and Equipment
• Location: Preston; Lancashire. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
• Salary: Up to £66000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing

• Leading and managing a team of Manufacturing Plant and Equipment buyers
• Contribute to category and project strategy, implementing plans to successfully deliver major investments in the Air sector
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the business - problem solving and encouraging innovation, creating a motivated, proactive and inclusive environment
• Focussing on delivering a high performing team culture
• Build on our existing supplier relationships, ensuring reviews are carried out, suppliers are monitored and managed and high performance is delivered
• Identify and build new supplier relationships that will benefit the business
• Support and co-ordinate the team throughout the end to end procurement process, ensuring customer and suppler issues are communicated and resolved effectively
• Support our external bidding activity on major programmes
• Contributing to the Indirect Procurement Services strategic direction and delivery of objectives / goals

Your skills and experiences

Essential

• An understanding of business and procurement approaches, techniques, processes, policy and strategy
• Proven experience working within a procurement role, ideally within an indirect spend category
• An understanding of how procurement activity is organised and integrates into the business or function, requires commercial awareness and procurement skills
• Experience of contract and supplier performance management

Desirable

• Degree qualified in a business subject area or equivalent procurement / supply chain accreditations (MCIPS, RICS, IAPPM)
• Experience of managing a team of procurement professionals

Benefits

• As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Procurement Team

• This is a team at the forefront of supporting the business’ investments into its existing infrastructure as well as new building developments and product platforms meaning no two days are the same. This role has day to day responsibility for the team and to influence the procurement strategy and supplier management and selection within this area.
• Why BAE Systems?
• This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
• Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
• Closing Date: 18th November 2025
• We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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