Procurement Professional – Sustainability

Job Title: Procurement Professional – Sustainability

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: From £42,215 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting delivery of the Submarines Supply Chain Sustainability strategy and annual priorities
• Coordinating Scope 3, environmental and social value initiatives across supply chain
• Maintaining sustainability trackers, reporting packs and governance action logs
• Preparing high quality materials for senior forums and stakeholder briefings
• Supporting supplier engagement activity, communications and training coordination
• Identifying risks, gaps and improvement opportunities and escalate appropriately

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience in supply chain, sustainability or a related function
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Strong stakeholder management and coordination capability
• Ability to translate strategic priorities into practical delivery actions
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex and regulated environment
• Experience of decarbonising a supply chain / implementing social value within supply chain

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 Submarines Supply Chain Sustainability Team:

You will join the Submarines Supply Chain Sustainability Team, working across major defence programmes to embed ESG within procurement and supplier processes. The team collaborates closely with wider business functions, Group and Sector sustainability teams, and Social Impact colleagues to align strategy, governance and delivery across the organisation. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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: 13th March 2026

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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