Job Title: Senior Buyer
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56865
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 Senior Buyer at our Ashton House site.
The role
As a Senior Buyer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary, working on a range of exciting design, manufacture and support projects. We work with a number of key clients domestically and internationally.
Day-to-day, you'll support our customer contracts and provide all kinds of solutions, from small electrical items to large first level structures and equipment.
- Act as the focal point for internal customers to define materials and services spend requirements for designated projects
- Manage the purchase order process
- Deliver operational excellence and reporting
- Personally lead major supplier relationships dealing with performance issues to conclusion
- Manage and develop internal relationships cross functionally.
- Help develop the pipeline of future opportunities, harnessing relationships with key support partners
This role is full time, 37-hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Buyer
- Demonstratable experience in a procurement role ideally in a Defence or Engineering environment
- Track record of building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of data analysis for decision making
Qualifications for the Senior Buyer
- Minimum GCSE grade 4 Maths and English
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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
- 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
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.
Closing date: 02/05/2024
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