Job Description

Job Title: Procurement Coordinator

Location: Lakeside, Portsmouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74000

Keep vital operations moving in a purpose-driven organisation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Procurement Coordinator at Lakeside, near Portsmouth, Hampshire.

The role

As a Procurement Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in supporting the smooth and efficient purchasing of goods and services across the business. Working within our Requisition to Pay (R2P) Business Services Procurement team, you’ll help ensure that the right resources are in place to support critical operations across defence, aerospace and engineering programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity to build your career within a global organisation, where your work will directly support projects that protect national security and deliver essential services. You’ll gain exposure to international procurement activity, develop your technical and system knowledge, and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Processing requisitions and purchase orders, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures
• Managing open purchase orders and resolving queries related to goods received and invoice discrepancies
• Procuring information technology hardware and peripherals for UK and international operations
• Monitoring shared procurement inboxes and managing sourcing activity queues
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with one day a month onsite and the rest of the month working from home.

Essential experience of the Procurement Coordinator

• Experience working within a Requisition to Pay or procurement function
• Confidence using Microsoft Excel, databases, and systems such as SAP, Coupa or Remedy
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong attention to detail with a focus on accuracy and compliance
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate across teams

Qualifications for the Procurement Coordinator

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 09/06/2026