Supply Chain Manager – Pumps & Valves

Job Title: Supply Chain Manager – Pumps & Valves

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: £57,000 + depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading a team of buyers to deliver to quality, schedule and cost requirements against strategic objectives and programme requirements
• Leading supplier collaboration through strategic development and risk mitigation implementation
• Proactively identifying and capitalising on opportunities to achieve cost and schedule efficiencies
• Managing Supplier Relationships, promoting our strategic and collaborative behaviours
• Actively managing supplier performance to pre-empt issues, enabling rapid recovery and ensuring consistent delivery success
• Providing weekly and monthly metrics to support discussions with seniors on supplier performance
• Engaging with stakeholders to gain buy in to functional and supplier strategies

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven experience in supply chain management within a complex project environment
• Comprehensive experience in managing teams, leading business operations, and driving executive-level initiatives
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively guide, influence, and negotiate across diverse business environments
• MCIPS or equivalent level, relevant professional qualification or equivalent by experience
• Flexible and willing to travel supplier sites as required by business needs

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 Pumps & Valves team

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Pumps and Valves Procurement Team where you will lead a team of procurement professionals who are responsible for the contracting and delivery of information, products and services to quality, cost and schedule requirements across Submarine Programmes. 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: 5th 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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