Buyer

Job Title:              Buyer
Location:              Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:    Up to £44,292 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF64292

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 Buyer at our Rosyth site.

The role
As a Buyer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be part of an incredible, diverse, and inclusive team of talented professionals, bringing specialist knowledge, management skills, and technical expertise across a wide range of products, technologies, and collaborative solutions - supporting both our internal and external customers.

Day-to-day, you’ll oversee the Hire Desk while supporting our Procurement and Supply Chain team, handling everything from customer inquiries to final collection or delivery. You’ll process hire contracts, manage availability, and coordinate equipment schedules, all while fostering strong supplier and stakeholder relationships to ensure seamless operations. Additionally, you will:

• Support the Buying team with transactional Purchasing & Supply Chain activities, including raising purchase orders, order book management, expediting, supplier maintenance, and basic Request for Quotation (RFQ) tasks.
• Ensure compliance with established procurement procedures and policies.
• Embed within the Site Facilities/Infrastructure Team, working in a fast-paced environment with engagement across various teams and stakeholders.
• Manage supplier relationships, ensuring smooth coordination of goods and services procurement.
• Gain exposure to a variety of procurement activities, providing an excellent entry point into a Procurement & Supply Chain team committed to professional growth and development.

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

Essential experience of the Buyer 

• A strong understanding of purchasing principles and practices, with the potential to be studying for CIPS.
• In-depth knowledge of purchasing methods, systems, and approaches, with responsibility for managing a supplier review schedule and implementing processes for an allocated supplier group.
• A combination of analytical, planning, and leadership skills to support effective procurement activities.
• Proven experience engaging with Preferred Suppliers and Stakeholders, alongside a strong background in negotiations and cost savings.
• Ability to manage Service Level Agreements, ensuring supplier performance and compliance.

Qualifications for the Buyer 

• Ideally, a degree-level qualification or equivalent through relevant work experience.
• MCIPS qualification or actively working towards MCIPS or an equivalent professional certification (desirable).

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 (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: 11/06/2025