Procurement & Contracts Manager - Defence

Procurement & Contracts Manager - Defence

£60,000 - £70,000 per annum + Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (Hybrid & Flexible Working Available)

Salary: starting from £60,000 + Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits

Overview

This is your opportunity to take ownership within a high-tech defence manufacturing environment, delivering at scale on one of the UK's most complex and strategically significant programmes. Work on a long-term, nationally significant programme with real-world impact. Joining a stable, well-funded environment with long-term career growth and progression. If you're an experienced procurement and contracts professional ready to step into a high-impact leadership role, this is where your expertise will shape outcomes on a national scale.

What's In It For You

• Competitive salary + car allowance
• Strong pension offering
• Private healthcare and wellbeing benefits
• Flexible benefits including green car schemes and lifestyle discounts
• Annual incentive opportunities
• Relocation support available (subject to eligibility)

What You'll Be Driving

You'll take the lead across a critical supplier landscape, ensuring delivery, performance, and strategic alignment across a major programme.

• Lead and inspire a team of procurement and contracts professionals, managers, and subcontractors to deliver against an ambitious strategy
• Own key contracts (strategy, negotiation, performance)
• Develop and execute robust Contract Management Plans that ensure control, compliance, and continuous improvement
• Hold accountability for supplier performance-past, present, and future-ensuring delivery against key metrics across critical programmes

What You Bring

You're already operating at a manager level and thrive in complex, high-stakes environments.

• 5+ years' experience in procurement, contracts, or supply chain within large-scale major programmes, defence manufacturing, or complex subcontracting environments
• Strong track record in contract strategy, negotiation, and supplier management
• Proven leadership capability-able to build, develop, and motivate high-performing teams
• Commercially astute, confident operating within structured and regulated frameworks, with a mindset that values collaboration, innovation, and diversity of thought
• Background in Defence, Nuclear, Engineering, or Manufacturing

Senior Procurement and Contracts Manager - Apply now for next steps!

Applicants must be based in the UK to commit to hybrid working requirements and hold current/valid UK Right to Work. All applicants must, as a minimum, achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard/security vetting checks.