Job Description

Job Title: Buyer
Location: Ashchurch, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64257
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 Ashchurch site.
The role
As a Buyer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will utilise procurement and supply chain expertise to help generate significant value for the business by reducing the total cost of bought in goods and services and manage supplier relationships to increase the overall value derived from the supply chain.
Day-to-day, you'll continuously champion high performance, challenge the status quo and actively proposes new ideas on how we can make things better and always puts the customer first.

• Prepare, issue and review supplier RFQ's, recommending preferred options to the relevant stakeholders.
• Converting purchase requisitions to purchase orders and issuing to suppliers, negotiating appropriate T&C's for the protection of the organisation.
• Manage and develop supplier relationships.
• Pro-active supplier order book management activities.

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office/onsite and two days working from home.
Essential experience of the Buyer

• Procurement experience, ideally in an operational procurement environment.
• Experience in sourcing new materials and services.
• Must have a flexible approach to workload, confident reading and understanding technical drawings and ability to communicate complex requirements to/from supply chain.
• Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business
• Must have a good understanding of complex manufacturing processes and principles
• Must be self-motivated with a flexible approach to workload
• Working knowledge of and experience in Microsoft Excel, Word, Power point and IFS (desirable)

Qualifications for the Buyer

• A recognised degree level qualification and/or relevant engineering/supply chain/lean culture experience
• Membership of a relevant professional body e.g. CIPS at level 4 or above is advantageous

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.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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
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 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.
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