Supply Chain Project Manager

Job Title: Supply Chain Project Manager
Location: Donnington, Telford + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £40,000 - £45,000 DOE + Benefits
Role Type: Full Time / Fixed Term Contract 26-weeks
Role ID: SF56546

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 Supply Chain Project Manager at our Donnington site.

The role
As a Supply Chain Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary You'll play a pivotal part in meeting the strategic aims of the Supply Chain workstream, ensuring that project delivery is tracked against schedule, budget and agreed deliverables.

Day to day, you'll proactively support the business to prepare for, deliver and adopt a wide variety of change activity and initiatives, with a focus on the Supply Chain changes required to underpin the successful delivery of the contract.

• Construct plans for executing multiple Supply Chain change projects.
• Ensure plans meet the requirements of the business and other stakeholders.
• Facilitate and manage workshops and data gathering exercises.
• Ensure compliance, policy, and legal input is factored into all stages of projects.
• Work with the Babcock Supply Chain team to create schedules, set milestones, communicate project status, and identify & address potential challenges before they occur.
• Manage communication within and between teams, and represent plans at governance forums and to senior management

This role is a full time fixed term contact for 26- weeks and will be based at Donnington on site with hybrid working from home arrangements. There is a requirement to travel to Andover and Bristol as part of the role.

Essential experience of the Supply Chain Project Manager:

• Project management competence with proven experience of successful project management and delivery
• Knowledge and experience of Procurement and Supply Chain practices
• A general understanding and awareness of financial, commercial, and legal
• Knowledge of the defence sector is a bonus
• Delivery experience and can guide teams in achieving their outcomes

Qualifications for the Supply Chain Project Manager:
We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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 International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 18/03/2024