Inventory Manager
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as an Inventory Manager and play a crucial role in optimizing inventory and supply chain operations for critical defence programmes. This permanent, full-time position offers hybrid working and the chance to contribute directly to national security.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage and maintain inventory data and systems.
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators and service level agreements.
- Coordinate the end-to-end spares and repairs supply chain.
- Provide inventory insight and recommendations for demand and supply planning.
- Drive continuous improvement and oversee stock movements.
- Requires ability to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
Inventory Manager
Help keep critical programmes moving through world-class inventory and supply chain leadership.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Inventory Manager at Hawthorn, Corsham, or Devonport. As part of our Mission Systems business, you'll join a team supporting vital defence and engineering programmes that help protect national security. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your inventory, supply chain, and stakeholder management expertise in a role where your work directly contributes to operational readiness, customer satisfaction, and business performance.
The Role
As an Inventory Manager, you'll play a key role in ensuring the effective management of inventory, spares, and repairs across a complex supply chain environment. Working closely with customers, procurement teams, and operational stakeholders, you'll use data, insight, and strong relationship-building skills to optimise inventory performance and support critical programme delivery.
This role offers excellent opportunities to broaden your supply chain, logistics, and inventory management expertise within a leading defence, aerospace, and engineering organisation.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Managing and maintaining the integrity of inventory data and inventory management systems.
- Monitoring and reporting performance against key internal and customer service level agreements and key performance indicators.
- Coordinating the end-to-end spares and repairs supply chain process, engaging stakeholders throughout.
- Supporting demand and supply planning by providing inventory insight, analysis, and recommendations.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives and overseeing stock movements between internal locations.
This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home. Some travel to other sites will be required.
Essential Experience:
- Experience delivering excellent customer service in a fast-paced operational environment.
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Experience managing competing priorities with strong time and workload management skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.
Desirable Qualifications:
- IT systems including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- ERP Systems – IFS & SAP knowledge would be advantageous.
- MoD SCM Skills Certificate Level 1.
- Knowledge and experience of MoD systems (BIWMS, CRISP, SS3, JAMES) and processes (DLF).
- Ability to run presentations in front of a wide variety of stakeholders including senior leaders of the company and customer.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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.
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: Allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave.
- ‘Be Kind Day’: One working day's paid leave per year for volunteering work.
- Flexible working – options to better integrate work and personal life.
- A dynamic working environment.
We are 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.
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 [email protected] 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.