Buyer in Bristol

Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the future of defence supply chains. 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 Bristol Technology Centre, near Bristol, Gloucestershire.

The role:

As a Buyer, you’ll play a key role at the heart of our Mission Systems business, supporting the delivery of critical programmes across defence, aerospace, and engineering. You’ll act as the focal point for procurement activity, ensuring the right materials and services are sourced efficiently, ethically, and at the best value. This is an exciting opportunity to influence supply chain performance, build strong supplier relationships, and contribute directly to projects that protect people and infrastructure. You’ll also benefit from hands-on experience alongside experienced procurement professionals, helping you grow your career in a dynamic, future-focused industry.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Managing procurement of goods and services to ensure timely and cost-effective programme delivery
• Preparing and issuing requests for quotation and evaluating supplier responses
• Building and maintaining strong supplier relationships, including conducting supplier visits
• Supporting order book management and providing accurate supply chain reporting
• Collaborating with delivery teams and stakeholders to identify value opportunities

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with minimum 1 day in the office and rest of week working from home.

Essential experience:

• Demonstrable experience within a supply chain or procurement role
• Understanding of purchasing within a manufacturing or engineering environment
• Awareness of operational procurement processes
• Knowledge of commercial business practices
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

Qualifications:

• Willingness to work towards membership of a relevant professional body, such as the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (Level 4 or above), or an equivalent business-related qualification

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be 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.

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 (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• 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 call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 25/05/2026