Senior Buyer

weServed; Rosyth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Life assurance

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock in Rosyth, Fife, is seeking a Senior Buyer to lead procurement across major marine and defence programmes. You’ll manage supplier relationships, drive a requisition-to-order service and help ensure timely delivery of high-value goods and services.

This role is 37 hours per week with hybrid working. You’ll work within a dynamic team, influence commercial decisions, and partner with stakeholders to deliver national infrastructure and defence capabilities. Security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Experience managing end-to-end procurement in a complex environment.
• Experience writing Invitations to Tender and supporting contract management.
• Strong understanding of contract terms and supplier negotiations.
• Experience with ERP systems such as IFS, SAP or Oracle and modern e-procurement tools.
• Experience managing supplier performance and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver requisition-to-order service including PO placement and supplier expediting.
• Drive procurement performance improvements across lead times and delivery.
• Manage supplier relationships and SLAs with KPIs.
• Lead sourcing, negotiations and spot purchasing for best value.
• Prepare procurement docs: ITT, contracts, business cases, presentations.

Skills

End-to-end procurement

Tender writing

Contract negotiations

Supplier performance

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree qualified

Tools

IFS ERP

SAP ERP

Oracle ERP

E-procurement tools

Job description

Job Title: Senior Buyer

Location: Rosyth, Fife – Hybrid Working Available

Compensation: £45,283 - £52,872

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75131

Shape strategic supply chains that support critical defence programmes

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Buyer at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As a Senior Buyer, you'll play a key role in delivering procurement excellence across major marine and defence programmes. Working within a dynamic supply chain and procurement team, you'll lead purchasing activities, manage supplier relationships and help ensure the efficient delivery of products and services that support vital national infrastructure and defence capabilities.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced procurement professional to influence high-value commercial decisions, drive supplier performance and contribute to projects of national importance. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across the business, develop your commercial expertise and build a rewarding career within a global engineering and technology organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Delivering an efficient requisition-to-order service, including purchase order placement, order management and supplier expediting.
• Driving improvements in procurement performance, including lead times, supplier delivery and invoice accuracy.
• Managing supplier relationships, performance reviews, key performance indicators and service level agreements.
• Leading sourcing activities, supplier negotiations and spot purchasing requirements to secure best value outcomes.
• Preparing procurement documentation including invitations to tender, contract documentation, business cases and stakeholder presentations.

This role is 37 hours per week, based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Senior Buyer:

• Experience managing end-to-end procurement, purchasing or supply chain activities within a complex commercial environment.
• Experience writing and delivering Invitations to Tender and supporting contract development and management.
• Strong understanding of commercial contract terms, conditions and supplier negotiations.
• Experience working with enterprise resource planning systems such as IFS, SAP or Oracle and modern e-procurement tools.
• Experience managing supplier performance, stakeholder engagement and procurement process improvement.

Qualifications for the Senior Buyer:

• Degree qualified or able to demonstrate an equivalent level of knowledge through relevant professional experience.

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
• 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 [e-mail] 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: 08/09/2026

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