Job Title: Buyer
Location: Ashchurch, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF60106
At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world together. 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. We are looking for a Procurement & Supply Chain professional to join our P&SC function supporting operations within our Mission Systems Sector.
Day-to-day, you'll provide support to the Babcock Supply Chain in the provision of Goods and/or Services.
* Prepare, issue and review supplier RFQ's, recommending preferred options to the relevant stakeholders
* Convert purchase requisitions to purchase orders and issue 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 two days in the office/onsite and three days working from home.
Essential experience of the Buyer
* Procurement experience, ideally in an operational procurement environment
* Experience with ERP Systems; SAP is highly desirable
* Experience in sourcing new materials and services
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 desirable
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, 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.
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 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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