Senior Procurement Practitioner

Job Title: Senior Procurement Practitioner

Location: Barrow in Furness - onsite Wednesday and Thursday, with flexibility to meet business requirements

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

Grade: S3

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Job Description:

You will be managing contracts, expediting deliveries, and ensuring accurate reporting, of procured valves from your allocated supplier to support the build programme.

Core duties:

• Attendance at supplier reviews
• Support all reporting across the team by providing data and updates to line manager e.g. Senior Management Reviews, Functional Review, Drive Packs
• Weekly management of metrics, spend data and KPIs
• Reviewing and processing requisitions
• Raising purchase orders, monitoring manufacturing progress and expediting deliveries
• Actioning invoices queries
• Management of SAP notifications

Essential Skills:

• Awareness of procurement processes
• Experience of processing and managing documentation
• Experience of maintaining accurate data
• Proficient IT skills (including MS office packages such as Excel)
• Experience of stakeholder management
• Ability to travel to UK supplier sites once per month

The Pumps and Valves team:

This role sits in the wider Pumps and Valves team who support Valve requirements across Astute and Dreadnought along with Dreadnought Pumps. You will be part of an inclusive team who work together across the areas to support each other and ensure targets are met. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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: 25th November 2026