Principal Procurement Professional – Strategic Supplier Development

Job Description

Job Title: Strategic Supplier Development Lead

Location: Scotstoun, Portsmouth or Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47-52K depending on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

• Executing supplier development principals, toolsets, and processes at a strategic level to resolve supplier performance issues, mitigate risk, generate additional value, and deliver optimised cost
• Carrying out supplier assessments, including management systems, process capability, ramp to rate, capacity assessments etc
• Identifying improvement opportunities with suppliers and leading the implementation of associated workstreams
• Facilitating improvement workshops and training/coaching cross functional teams on toolsets and approaches
• Coordinating cross-platform integration of improvement workstreams and risk mitigation
• Building and managing cross business strategic relationships and networks
• Providing regular communications into the senior procurement community

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Understanding of the key drivers to supplier performance and experience of supplier performance management & development tool sets with an continuous improvement and problem solving mind-set
• Project management skills with an understanding of the whole product lifecycle and the ability to manage multiple work streams
• Has a Safety, People, Quality, Delivery & Cost improvement approach (SPQDC)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence others across the business
• Experience of developing & delivering training and skills deployment interventions

Desirable:

• Ability to present to stakeholders at all levels
• Lean Six Sigma trained or equivalent
• APQP experience

Benefits:

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Strategic Supply Chain team:

Joining the Strategic Supply Chain team, you will be involved in procuring materials and services as required for the International Navy through life support activities. This is a dynamic team with the ability to proactively develop solutions that can meet the business' needs. This role will also offer you encouragement and support through personal and functional development.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 10th May 2024 – Interviews for this position will take place W/C 17th May

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.