Buyer

Job Title:              Buyer
Location:              Andover, Hampshire or Telford, Shropshire + UK and International Travel
Compensation:    Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Fixed Term Contract 52 weeks
Role ID:               SF61413

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.

The role
As a Buyer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. In this exciting role you will be working with a team of experienced Operational and Senior buyers to drive supplier excellence in terms of cost, delivery and quality of the indirect supply chain servicing the project’s priorities.  

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for delivering the indirect Procurement strategy for the project, ensuring alignment with Procurement, programme and non-core tasking activities.

• Responsible for the project’s indirect purchasing strategy, working with and influencing commodity teams, programmes, and key stakeholders
• Accountable to deliver commodity initiatives
• Accountable for supplier contracts and ensuring alignment with wider project activities
• Accountable for flowing down customer programme requirements into supplier contracts
• Responsible for indirect supplier performance in-terms of cost, delivery, and quality

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly / monthly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Buyer:

• Considerable experience in a commercially focused equivalent role and similar operating model
• Considerable experience in a commercial procurement environment 
• Understanding of e-procurement tools and their capability to inform and deliver sourcing strategies 
• Category Management or Strategic Sourcing experience across a broad portfolio in relevant market sectors 

Qualifications for the Buyer:

• Related degree qualification or CIPS qualified

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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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: 26/02/2025