Overview

As a Senior Buyer, you'll take ownership, drive collaboration, and make a meaningful impact every day—working closely with our procurement team and supply base to deliver real results that shape the future of our business. Day-to-day, you'll:

• Lead the development and execution of procurement and supply chain strategies across key projects, delivering smart contract solutions that enable successful project outcomes.
• Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and manage supplier relationships through effective contract management, performance tracking, and collaboration.
• Design and optimise the project supply base to meet business needs, exceed functional KPIs, and unlock value opportunities.
• Act as the supply chain voice in programme reviews, providing clear updates and insights to stakeholders across the business.
• Build strong supplier partnerships through regular site visits, ensuring progress, quality, and long-term collaboration.
• Based at our Bristol office for 2 days per week, with flexible hybrid working patterns available. This is a full-time, permanent position, working 37 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Procurement and Supply Chain role, ideally within Defence, Manufacturing, or Engineering—though we welcome strong candidates from other sectors.
• A self-starter with a proactive mindset and the flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Skilled at building strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the business.
• 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, we would like to hear from you.
• The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 Ashton Vale, Bristol.

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).

Benefits

• 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 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
• '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.