- Act as the focal point for internal customers to define materials and services spend requirements for designated projects
- Manage the purchase order process
- Deliver operational excellence and reporting
- Personally lead major supplier relationships dealing with performance issues to conclusion
- Manage and develop internal relationships cross functionally.
- Help develop the pipeline of future opportunities, harnessing relationships with key support partners
- Demonstratable experience in a procurement role ideally in a Defence or Engineering environment
- Track record of building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of data analysis for decision making
- Minimum GCSE grade 4 Maths and English
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- 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
Senior Buyer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Babcock International Group
Description
Job Title: Senior Buyer
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + 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 Senior Buyer at our Ashton House site.
The role
As a Senior Buyer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary, working on a range of exciting design, manufacture and support projects. We work with a number of key clients domestically and internationally.
Day-to-day, you'll support our customer contracts and provide all kinds of solutions, from small electrical items to large first level structures and equipment.
This role is full time, 37-hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Senior Buyer
Qualifications for the Senior Buyer
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
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