Buyer

Job Title: Buyer
Location: Tewkesbury, UK – Hybrid – Work from home options available
Compensation: Competitive
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF50783;

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 will have a role that is out of the ordinary. Mission Systems enable our customers to deliver their mission, through our products and solutions, using intelligence and analysis and delivering critical communication services. Our aim is to be at the centre of our customers' modern digital backbone by connecting and delivering sensors, decision support, and air effectors across military and business domains.

Day to day, you will 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.

• 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

Essential experience of the Buyer,

• 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
• A good understanding of the Company business and objectives
• Working knowledge of and experience in Microsoft Excel, Word, Power point and IFS (desirable)

The role is full time at thirty-seven hours per week. This position has a hybrid working arrangement of one to two days a week on-site, with the remaining to be completed from home.

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 Four or above
• Procurement experience, ideally in an operational procurement environment
• Experience in sourcing new materials and services

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.

Our Benefits

• 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 ten 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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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