Job Title: Procurement Group Leader – Training & Manpower
Location: Warton, Hybrid, 3 days per week on site
Salary: £59,491+ (DOE)
Who we are:
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
Job Description:
As a Procurement Group Leader, you’ll lead strategic procurement and supplier management activities across the Training & Manpower category, supporting current and future capability programmes across Air.
Working closely with stakeholders across the business and an international supplier base, you’ll help shape category strategy, deliver value-for-money sourcing solutions and ensure suppliers continue to meet business and customer requirements. You’ll also play a key role in supporting future training technologies, including simulation, virtual training environments and content development solutions.
Core duties:
- Act as the Procurement Business Partner for the Training & Manpower category, supporting category strategy and future capability development
- Lead strategic procurement and supplier management activities across a UK and international supply base
- Negotiate commercial agreements, contracts and sourcing solutions that support programme and business requirements
- Drive supplier performance, risk mitigation and supply chain resilience activities
- Collaborate with engineering, commercial, legal, finance and programme teams to deliver procurement objectives
- Support customer-facing activities and governance forums across UK and international programmes
Essential Skills:
- Experience developing procurement, category or supplier management strategies
- Experience negotiating commercial agreements and managing supplier relationships
- Experience leading procurement activities within a complex organisation
- Experience managing supplier performance, risk and continuous improvement initiatives
- Experience managing challenging stakeholder environments, balancing competing priorities and resolving conflict to achieve business outcomes
The Training & Manpower team:
The Training & Manpower Procurement team supports a diverse portfolio of programmes across Air, helping to deliver innovative training capabilities for current and future platforms. Working with suppliers across the UK and internationally, the team plays an important role in supporting simulation technologies, virtual training environments and future capability development while ensuring value, performance and resilience across the supply chain.
Why BAE Systems?
Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.
A place where everyone can thrive:
We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
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: 17th June 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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