Assistant Buyer

Job Title: Assistant Buyer
Location: Rosyth
Compensation: Band D (£29,612.00 - £35,368.00)
Role Type: Full time
Role ID: SF: 50857

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Buyer at our Rosyth site.

The role

As an Assistant Buyer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Supporting Buyers to ensure that Babcock’s commercial position is best protected through use of agreed terms and conditions of contract and purchase orders

• Support Buyers in execution of order book management and expediting processes to ensure the supply chain delivers on time to meet all Business Unit requirements and support Buyers in execution of processes, and interfaces with finance, to ensure on-time payment to suppliers.
• Support Buyers in execution of supplier on-boarding and qualification processes to ensure selected suppliers are approved and available to trade with and support Buyers to Source within existing supply agreements defined by Project Procurement and Category Management teams.

• Support Buyers to ensure that all technical and quality requirements are fully satisfied and that all material and service requirements are supplied in accordance with specifications provided

Essential experience of the Assistant Buyer

• Basic knowledge of current operational procurement techniques
• Basic knowledge of ERP systems for example, IFS, SAP, Oracle.

This role is based full time on site at Rosyth

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.

Our Benefits

• 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 ten days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.

Closing date: 03/05/2023