Buyer

Job Title:                 Buyer
Location:                 Walsall, West Midlands + Hybrid Working Arrangements 
Compensation:       Up to £36,500 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:              Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                  SF61935

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 Walsall site.

The role
As a Buyer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key part within the Procurement and Supply Chain team focused on a variety of direct and indirect activities.

Day-to-day, you’ll work within the procurement and supply chain team.  You will support procurement and warehouse integration, work with the material planner to ensure plan and deliveries align to operational requirements, whilst also supporting senior buyers preparing and issuing requests for quotations (RFQ’s).

• Processing requisitions and placement of purchase orders / contracts for supply in an efficient and timely manner, to meet or exceed service levels. Ensuring all Contracts within the individual’s delegated authority meet the Babcock International Group Commercial, health and safety policies and procedures.
• Carry out sourcing and supplier allocation activities in support of business objectives
• Managing supplier order books to ensure goods and/or services arrive on time in full and meet the required specifications and performance objectives.
• Assisting in supplier performance and relationship management activities to sustain and improve supplier performance to assure achieve business objectives
• Managing system data to ensure it remains accurate and producing management information outputs to inform project management and business objectives

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

Essential experience of the Buyer:

• Proven experience within a supply chain role, preferably within defence, manufacturing or engineering environment
• Computer literate, particularly in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of procurement systems such as ERP / MRP technologies is desirable
• Navision experience is desirable. 

Qualifications for the Buyer:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. However, CIPS qualified or working towards is desirable. 
 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV 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: 11/02/2025