Buyer - Indirect Supply Chain - Submarines

Job Description

Job Title: Buyer – Indirect Supply Chain – Submarines
Working Pattern: Full-time
Working Location: Derby

As a Buyer in our Indirect Supply Chain team within the Submarines business, you\’ll play a pivotal role in sourcing the essential services, tools, and technologies that power every corner of our operations. From facilities and professional services to IT and corporate functions, your work ensures operational continuity, cost efficiency, and long-term supplier value. This is your chance to influence high-impact decisions, drive commercial performance, and grow your career at the heart of a business critical to UK national defence.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

This role sits within our Submarines business, which provides nuclear propulsion solutions that power the Royal Navy’s submarines. You’ll be joining a team that plays a critical role in protecting national security and maintaining the UK’s continuous at-sea deterrent.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Whether you’re managing professional services, facilities, IT or other indirect categories, this role offers variety, influence, and exposure across a nationally critical programme – with plenty of opportunities to grow.

What We Offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What You Will Be Doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Manage supplier relationships and performance across key indirect categories.
• Support the development and execution of sourcing strategies aligned to business needs.
• Lead or support negotiations, contract renewals and cost optimisation initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, systems, and documentation standards.

Who We’re Looking For

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• Have experience in indirect procurement, category management, or supplier management.
• Be confident managing stakeholder relationships across functional and business areas.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen and awareness of contract frameworks.
• Possess strong project management and communication skills.
• Ideally hold a degree or have relevant industry experience (MCIPS desirable).

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Security Clearance

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category Procurement Posting Date 20 Oct 2025; 00:10 Posting End Date 26 Oct 2025

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