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Buyer

Babcock International Group • Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB
30+ days ago
Salary
£39.00 hourly
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
Job description

Job Title: Buyer

Location: Rosyth, Fife – Hybrid Working Available

Compensation: £39, - £46,

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

Shape the supply chain behind projects that help create a safe and secure world

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Buyer at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As a Buyer within our Marine Engineering & Systems business, you'll play a key role in delivering strategic procurement and facilities management solutions that support complex and high-profile projects. This is an exciting opportunity to influence project success through effective sourcing, supplier management and contract delivery, ensuring best value while minimising risk. Your work will directly contribute to critical infrastructure and operational excellence, offering excellent opportunities for professional development within a dynamic defence, aerospace and engineering environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

  • Conducting supplier due diligence and supporting the development of technical specifications for market engagement.
  • Preparing, issuing and evaluating Invitations to Tender, Requests for Quotations and Requests for Information.
  • Delivering bid evaluations, commercial comparisons and recommendations that consider total cost of ownership.
  • Negotiating, drafting and managing contracts, amendments and extensions, including NEC4-based agreements.
  • Ensuring compliance with health, safety, environmental and site-specific policies and procedures.

This is a 36-hour per week role based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available, with two days per week onsite.

Essential experience of the Buyer:

  • Demonstrable experience applying procurement and facilities management principles and best practice.
  • Good understanding of contract terms and conditions, including the management of flow-down customer requirements.
  • Experience working within a facilities management or site-based operational environment.
  • Knowledge of day-to-day facilities management operations and commercial delivery.
  • Experience using procurement systems, eTendering platforms, contract management tools and cost estimation software.

Qualifications for the Buyer:

Essential:

  • MCIPS accreditation, a relevant degree, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Proven experience developing procurement strategies and leading complex procurement projects.
  • Experience managing contract delivery within facilities management, manufacturing or related sectors.

Desirable:

  • Knowledge of NEC4 contracts.
  • Experience working within defence, engineering or major infrastructure environments.

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 Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer.

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