Job Title: Supplier
Risk Assurance Lead

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

Salary: Up to £48,500
(dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be
doing:

• Manage a team to ensure resource
  is appropriately allocated, trained and developed
• Provide structured risk, assurance, and intelligence
  processes to support all Naval Ships programmes and Lines of
  Business
• Responsible for owning and improving complex, cross-functional
  processes, often spanning multiple stakeholders and
  systems
• Provide functional leadership to procurement
  professionals within team
• Own and manage all Naval Ships processes
  related to supplier evaluation and onboarding, supplier approval
  and status changes and supplier deactivation and exit
• Responsible for the development, management, and continuous
  improvement of supplier risk intelligence tools
• Ensure accuracy and integrity of vendor data, working
  closely with Shared Services teams
• Responsible
  for identifying and mitigating risks arising from major supplier
  changes, such as mergers and acquisitions, financial distress,
  ownership or leadership changes, site
  closures or relocations
• Working in line with
  supply chain governance and regulatory compliance

Your skills and
experiences:

Essential:

• Broad and deep professional
  knowledge/understanding of Procurement processes, principles, techniques and
  practices
• Understanding of Customer
  requirements
• Understanding of legal
  environment related to purchasing contracts and framework
  agreements within the defence sector
• Supply
  chain governance and regulatory compliance knowledge
• Sound financial acumen
• Previous
  supplier engagement experience

Desirable

• Knowledge and
  understanding of JOSCAR (Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register)
  compliance data and capability
• Technical
  background or experience – process and systems
  development
• Risk analytics
  experience

The
Suppler Risk Assurance Team

The
Supplier Risk Assurance exists to protect Naval Ships programmes by
ensuring the supplier base is resilient, compliant, and where risks
are identified ensure effective mitigation. The role provides assurance,
risk insight, and decision support across
programmes and Lines of Business, working closely with internal
functions (e.g. Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Export Control, SHE, Shared Services) and
external partners. Team participates in a range of collaboration
forums at Group and a Divisional level.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE
Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of
flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits,
including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping
discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual
incentive.

Why BAE
Systems?

This is a place where
you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an
inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards
integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your
potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make
sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible.
If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia,
autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your
performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about
potential reasonable adjustments.

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 23rd March 2026. Interviews for this position
will take place W/C 30th March 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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