Principal Material Controller

Job Title: Principal Material Controller

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. On site

Salary: From £40,748 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading SAP enablement within the Logistics & Inventory management (LIM) function by delivering targeted training and mentoring, assess learner progress and adapting strategies to build capability, support system governance, and drive continuous improvement

• Govern daily SAP operations to ensure the Logistics and Inventory Management (LIM) team consistently meets delivery and quality standards and define governance frameworks to ensure logistics strategies are supported

• Supporting short term and longer-term LIM projects (Inventory Management) to meet functional changes and improvements

• Proactively manage risk by identifying opportunities and mitigation strategies, while applying advanced problem-solving and scenario planning to support programme resilience and decision-making

• Supporting inventory management Lead (people management/leading team)

• Daily coordination of the team and communication of key updates to executive-level stakeholders

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Demonstratable experience or a solid understanding of logistics

• Experience with SAP, demonstrating the ability to confidently navigate and utilize across various functions

• Ability to present data clearly to stakeholders across the business and effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think quickly and creatively in dynamic situations

Desirable:

• Experience within Supply Chain

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.

The Inventory Management team:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team to support all programmes by managing inventory, enabling production to build efficiently and effectively. The role offers exposure to a wide range of systems and involves collaborating closely across functions and sites. You’ll play a key role in supporting the full end-to-end process—from manufacturing through to build and installation—while driving the governance, optimization, and cross-site training of SAP systems. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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: 19th August 2025

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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