Senior Buyer

Location: UK, Hybrid

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: 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.

The role:

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.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead procurement activities across multiple projects to deliver value, performance, and efficiency.
• Develop and implement supply chain strategies for defined packages of work.
• Build and manage strong supplier relationships to ensure quality and delivery excellence.
• Drive operational excellence through reporting, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate 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.

Essential experience of the Senior Buyer:

• 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.

Qualifications for the Senior Buyer:

• MCIPS desirable but not essential.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

What we offer:

• 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 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 to undertake volunteering.
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• A dynamic working environment.

Babcock is 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 are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com 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.

Closing date: 22/05/2026