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Group Category Lead Construction and InfrastructureBabcock International Group • Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB
Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure

Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure

Babcock International Group • Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB
27 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
Job description

Job Title: Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure

Location: Flexible UK Locations + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

Shape the future of strategic procurement in construction and infrastructure

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure at any of our main UK locations.

The role

As a Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and delivering procurement strategies across major construction, civil engineering, and infrastructure programmes. Acting as a subject matter expert, you will influence high-value sourcing decisions, optimise supply chain performance, and build strong supplier partnerships that deliver long-term value.

This is a career-defining opportunity to operate at group level, working across diverse and complex projects that support national infrastructure and defence programmes.

Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders, contribute to strategic decision-making, and drive innovation and sustainability across the supply chain.

  • Developing and delivering end-to-end category strategies for construction, infrastructure and civil engineering
  • Leading complex procurement activities including tendering, negotiation, and contract award
  • Building and managing strategic supplier relationships and performance frameworks
  • Advising stakeholders on commercial models, sourcing approaches, and contract best practice
  • Identifying opportunities for cost optimisation, risk reduction, and sustainable value creation

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure

  • Extensive experience in sourcing and procurement, with a strong track record in complex environments
  • Proven expertise within construction and infrastructure categories, including civil engineering
  • Demonstrable experience managing framework agreements and supplier performance at scale
  • Strong knowledge of commercial contracts, including NEC and JCT forms
  • Experience working within matrix organisations, managing multiple senior stakeholders

Qualifications for the Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure

  • Degree qualified or equivalent experience
  • Professional accreditation such as CIPS, RICS, CIOB or similar (desirable)

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 Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.

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Group Category Lead Construction and Infrastructure • Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB

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