Assistant Buyer

Job Title:              Assistant Buyer
Location:              Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    £33,068 - £39,496 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF64294

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Assistant Buyer at our Rosyth site.

The role
As an Assistant Buyer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be part of a dynamic, diverse, and inclusive team, providing specialist knowledge across innovative products, technologies, and solutions. You’ll play a vital role in supporting both internal and external customers, ensuring efficiency and excellence in purchasing processes.

Day-to-day, you’ll support our Buying team in handling the transactional aspects of Purchasing & Supply Chain activities, including raising purchase orders, managing order books, expediting transactions, maintaining supplier records, and assisting with basic Request for Quotation (RFQ) activities, all while ensuring compliance with procedures. Additionally, you will:

• Manage requisition-to-order processes within agreed service levels, up to a value of £2M.
• Support Buyers in securing Babcock’s commercial interests through effective use of contracts and purchase orders.
• Assist Buyers in financial processes, ensuring timely payments to suppliers.
• Help with supplier onboarding and qualification, ensuring selected suppliers meet approval requirements and are ready to trade.
• Ensure technical and quality requirements are fully satisfied, with all materials and services supplied in accordance with specifications.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Assistant Buyer

• Basic knowledge of current operational procurement techniques
• Basic knowledge of ERP systems for example, IFS, SAP, Oracle.

Qualifications for the Assistant Buyer

• Qualified to NQ level or equivalent through work experience
• Willingness to study towards MCIPS or equivalent professional qualifications

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
  

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 10/06/2025