Job Title: Buyer
Location: Walsall, West Midlands + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: From £26, Dependant on Experience + 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 Buyer at our Walsall site.
The role
As a Buyer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key part within the Procurement and Supply Chain team focused on a variety of direct and indirect activities.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
1. Process requisitions and place purchase orders/contracts efficiently and timely to meet service levels.
2. Carry out sourcing and supplier allocation activities in support of business objectives.
3. Manage supplier order books to ensure goods/services arrive on time and meet specifications.
4. Assist in supplier performance and relationship management to sustain and improve outcomes.
5. Coordinate with wider programme teams to ensure project requirements are met to planned time, cost, and specification.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 4 days in the office/onsite and 1 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Buyer
6. Knowledge of commercial business practices and strong communication skills.
7. Proven experience within a procurement or buying role, preferably in defence, manufacturing or engineering.
8. Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
9. Familiarity with procurement systems such as ERP/MRP technologies.
10. Experience working in cross-functional teams and managing stakeholders in an operational environment.
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.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain UK - BPSS + Non Police Personnel Vetting 1 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 .
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.