Job Title: Senior Buyer
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £45,284 - £52,872
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72814
Shape the future of defence and engineering through smarter procurement
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 Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife. Joining Babcock means becoming part of an organisation at the heart of the UK’s defence, maritime, aerospace and engineering sectors. Our people play a critical role in protecting communities, supporting national infrastructure and ensuring operational readiness — and procurement sits at the centre of that mission.
The role
As a Senior Buyer, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering efficient, high‑quality procurement services that directly support complex engineering and defence programmes. Reporting to the Operational Procurement Manager, you’ll lead the execution of the requisition‑to‑pay process across a defined scope, ensuring value, performance and compliance at every stage.
This is a role where your expertise will truly matter. You’ll manage significant spend, influence supplier performance, and support major programmes that contribute to national security. Alongside this, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership capability, shape processes, and build a long‑term career within a global organisation that invests in its people.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Managing the end‑to‑end requisition‑to‑pay process, including order placement, expediting and post‑order management
- Driving improvements in procurement performance, lead times, delivery metrics and invoice accuracy
- Developing and managing supplier relationships, including performance, risk and opportunity planning
- Producing ITT documentation, evaluations and robust contractual agreements
- Collaborating closely with Category Management and Project Procurement teams to support business priorities
This is a full‑time, permanent role, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available, balancing on‑site collaboration with flexibility.
Essential experience of the Senior Buyer:
- Working as a procurement professional within a complex or regulated environment
- Using ERP systems such as IFS, SAP or Oracle, including e‑procurement tools
- Managing contracts, negotiations and commercial terms and conditions
- Prioritising multiple requirements with strong attention to detail
- Engaging confidently with internal and external stakeholders
Qualifications for the Senior Buyer:
- Degree‑level qualification or equivalent professional experience
- MCIPS, studying towards MCIPS, or an equivalent professional qualification (desirable but not essential)
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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — 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: 28/04/2026
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