Job Title: Senior Buyer
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucester
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Ashchurch site.
The role
As a Senior Buyer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. As the focal point for the Programme and Project leads you will be responsible for several different procurement projects, driving performance and value opportunities across them.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following key responsibilities:
1. Identify value opportunities and levers, as well as:
2. Supply Chain Design for packages of work
3. Supplier Relationship Management
4. Operational Excellence and reporting
5. Cross functional communication within the programme
This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 1 day per week onsite at Ashchurch, or longer periods as required as the role demands, and you could be sent to other sites if needed.
Essential experience of the Senior Buyer:
6. Analytical skills to analyse data and make decisions.
7. Be able to read and understand technical drawings and ability to communicate complex requirements to/from supply chain is an advantage.
8. Ability to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business and suppliers.
9. Self-motivated with a flexible approach to workload
10. Strong negotiation skills.
Qualifications for the Senior Buyer:
11. MCIPS desirable but not essential
12. Experience within a Supply Chain role, preferably in a Defence or Engineering environment
Security Clearance
13. The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain SC security clearance for this role.
14. 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 ()
What we offer
15. Generous holiday allowance
16. Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. 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
22. ‘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