Senior Buyer

Senior Buyer

Locations:
Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ
;
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG
;
Portsmouth, GB, PO6 3EN
;
Westminster, London, GB, W1U 1QX
;
Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD
;
Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD
;
Leicester, GB, LE3 1UF
.

Onsite or Hybrid:
Hybrid.

Job Title: Senior Buyer

Location: UK, Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role : SF71024

Shape supply chains that support national defence and engineering excellence. 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 Babcock, to be based at any of our UK hubs.

As a Senior Buyer, you’ll be at the heart of delivering high-impact procurement solutions across complex defence and engineering programmes. Acting as a key partner to Programme and Project teams, you’ll lead sourcing activities, drive value, and strengthen supplier performance across multiple procurement projects. This is a dynamic role where your expertise will directly support mission‑critical capabilities. You’ll have the opportunity to influence supply chain strategy, develop commercial solutions, and build lasting supplier relationships all while advancing your career in a purpose‑driven environment that values innovation and continuous improvement.

• Leading procurement activities across multiple projects to deliver value, performance, and efficiency
• Developing and implementing supply chain strategies for defined packages of work
• Building and managing strong supplier relationships to ensure quality and delivery excellence
• Driving operational excellence through reporting, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement
• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to support programme objectives and commercial outcomes

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

• Proven experience in a procurement or supply chain role, ideally within defence, aerospace, or engineering
• Experience delivering supply chain strategies and identifying value and cost optimisation opportunities
• Demonstrated expertise in supplier relationship management and performance improvement
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across programme teams
• Understanding of procurement processes within complex project environments

• MCIPS desirable but not essential

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. 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 the United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels ().

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year to undertake volunteering
• Flexible working – more options to better integrate work and personal life, while ensuring business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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.

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 car 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.