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Senior Buyer

1 month ago

Plymouth, United Kingdom Babcock Full time

**Job Title**: Senior Buyer
**Location**: Plymouth, UK - Hybrid Working
**Compensation**: starting from £39,408 + benefits
**Role Type**: Full time / Permanent
**Role ID**: SF 46169

**Be The Change**

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 Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As an international defence company, we support and enhance our customers' defence and security capabilities and critical assets, meeting their requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

**Babcock International and Devonport**

The Senior Buyer role is based within our Devonport Royal Dockyard business area.

Working at Devonport puts the best of the South West at your fingertips. Amazing scenery, vibrant towns and numerous leisure opportunities - It's why Devon and Cornwall are such a desirable place to live and work.

Comprising of 14 dry docks, four miles of waterfront and 25 tidal berths, Devonport is the base for numerous surface vessels as well as the base and refit centre for the Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered submarines. Devonport has also recently been selectedas the base port for the Navy's new Type 26 frigates and will become the maintenance centre for the future submarine programme.

For more than a century, Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence Company, has been trusted to deliver bespoke, highly-skilled engineering services. We help customers in the UK and around the world to improve the capability, reliability and availability of theirmost critical assets within the four market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear, underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, unique infrastructure and specialist training.

**The role**

**The difference our new Senior Buyer will make**
As a Senior Buyer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This role operates within the Operational Materials and Services Procurement element of the central services support team. The team support the sourcing, contract management and supplier managementof indirect services for all our internal customers across the business to enable the delivery of critical support packages to our customer the Royal Navy.

Day to day, you'll be responsible for providing procurement and commercial input into and sign off statements of requirement prior to release to suppliers, complete requirements and co-ordinate order placement as well as ongoing contract management on largerpackages.

At Babcock, we have a history of helping talent go far. With our track record of innovation, you'll continually develop your knowledge and expertise.

We offer flexible working to give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. This role provides a hybrid working arrangement.

**Essential experience**
- Obtained or undertaking CIPS level 4 accreditation.
- Lean Six Sigma certification or understanding of the principles (desirable)
- SAP / IFS experience
- MPS and MRP experience
- Ability to present information to Director level
- Understanding of working in an engineering environment
- Cross functional team experience
- You will need to satisfy security requirements. This may require you to hold or be eligible/capable of achieving 'Security Check' (SC) clearance.

**What we offer**

**Generous benefits including**:

- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays
- Reservist in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
- Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme - save tax and national insurance on shares, with 1 free share per 10 purchased
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Employment development allowance - £125 per year
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reward and Recognition Scheme linked to Health and Safety
- Working from home and flexible work patterns
- Employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Flexible benefits, including cycle to work scheme, discounts and our Share Ownership Scheme
- Autonomy. Trusted and empowered to be at your best

**Babcock International**
For over 130 years, we have 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. Change begins with our people and our shared Principles: be curious; becourageous; own and deliver; think: outcomes; collaborate; and be kind. These values not only guide the way we work, but also our efforts to reach net-zero carbon. Yes, our ambitions are big, but together, we can achieve them.

**Armed Forces Covenant**

We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. If you are a reservist in the armed forces, we provide up to ten days special paid leave in support of your training commitments.
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