Supplier Risk Assurance Lead

Job Title: Supplier Risk Assurance Lead

Location: Scotstoun. 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 £48,500 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Manage a team to ensure resource is appropriately allocated, trained and developed
• Provide structured risk, assurance, and intelligence processes to support all Naval Ships programmes and Lines of Business
• Responsible for owning and improving complex, cross-functional processes, often spanning multiple stakeholders and systems
• Provide functional leadership to procurement professionals within team
• Own and manage all Naval Ships processes related to supplier evaluation and onboarding, supplier approval and status changes and supplier deactivation and exit
• Responsible for the development, management, and continuous improvement of supplier risk intelligence tools
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of vendor data, working closely with Shared Services teams
• Responsible for identifying and mitigating risks arising from major supplier changes, such as mergers and acquisitions, financial distress, ownership or leadership changes, site closures or relocations
• Working in line with supply chain governance and regulatory compliance

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Broad and deep professional knowledge/understanding of Procurement processes, principles, techniques and practices
• Understanding of Customer requirements
• Understanding of legal environment related to purchasing contracts and framework agreements within the defence sector
• Supply chain governance and regulatory compliance knowledge
• Sound financial acumen
• Previous supplier engagement experience

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of JOSCAR (Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register) compliance data and capability
• Technical background or experience – process and systems development
• Risk analytics experience

The Suppler Risk Assurance Team

The Supplier Risk Assurance exists to protect Naval Ships programmes by ensuring the supplier base is resilient, compliant, and where risks are identified ensure effective mitigation. The role provides assurance, risk insight, and decision support across programmes and Lines of Business, working closely with internal functions (e.g. Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Export Control, SHE, Shared Services) and external partners. Team participates in a range of collaboration forums at Group and a Divisional level.

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.

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 23rd March 2026. Interviews for this position will take place W/C 30th 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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