Senior Buyer

Babcock; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Buyer in Telford, where you'll develop sourcing strategies for military platforms. This full-time role offers hybrid working, competitive compensation, and a comprehensive benefits package, including generous holidays and development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of detailed quotation analysis and challenging pricing with suppliers.
• Proven delivery of category management and sourcing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop sourcing strategies for vehicle-related and MRO spares.
• Manage supplier relationships and procurement strategies.
• Lead negotiations and dispute resolution with suppliers.

Skills

Data Modelling

Analysis

Report Writing

Strategy Creation

Technical Understanding

Education

MCIPS 5

Job description

Job Title: Senior Buyer
Location: Telford, Shropshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £49,140 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 52 Weeks
Role ID: SF63012

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 Donnington site.

The role
As a Senior Buyer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity where you’ll be responsible for identifying, developing and implementing sourcing strategies for vehicle related and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) spares and sub-contract management in support of military platforms to ensure the delivery of optimised financial, operational and contractual benefits.

Day-to-day, you’ll manage the development and implementation of sourcing strategies that ensure material availability through the enablement of effective sourcing strategies in line with operational requirements. You’ll also:

• Developing Key Supplier Relationships and providing an escalation point of contact
• Lead the development of appropriate procurement strategies utilising category management, sourcing projects, or other routes as appropriate
• Responsible for the delivery of individual procurement cost down strategies that positively contribute to the Babcock Value Plan
• Lead supplier engagement on market warming, solution development, negotiation and dispute resolution
• Lead presentation of sourcing project progress at each gate stage in weekly governance reviews with senior stakeholders

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office/onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Buyer:

• Demonstrable ability to undertake complex tasks such as data modelling and analysis, executive report writing and strategy creation for suppliers
• Ability to understand technical drawings and articulate technical questions to stakeholders is desirable
• Experience of detailed quotation analysis and challenging pricing with suppliers
• Proven delivery of category management and sourcing strategies

Qualifications for the Senior Buyer:
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 then we would like to hear from you. However, MCIPS 5 or equivalent is desirable.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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 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 [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: 19/05/2025