Job Title: Buyer
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73688
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 the Babcock Technology Centre, near Bristol.
Join a team at the forefront of defence, aerospace and engineering innovation, where your work directly supports mission-critical programmes. In this role, you’ll help ensure the right equipment, services and technologies are delivered where they’re needed most supporting national security and cutting-edge capability.
As a Buyer, you’ll play a vital role in managing procurement and supply chain activities across dynamic defence programmes. Working closely with delivery teams and stakeholders, you’ll take ownership of supplier relationships and ensure goods and services are sourced efficiently, cost-effectively and to the highest standards.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in procurement and supply chain within a fast-paced, project-driven environment. With upcoming major programmes on the horizon, you’ll have the chance to influence future supply chains while building your expertise in defence and engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Managing end-to-end procurement activities, from sourcing suppliers through to contract completion
- Preparing and issuing requests for quotation and evaluating supplier responses to recommend best value options
- Building and maintaining strong supplier relationships, acting as a key point of contact and conducting supplier visits
- Raising and managing purchase orders while maintaining accurate supply chain data and reporting
- Supporting procurement strategy and identifying opportunities to improve value, cost and performance
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 4 days onsite and 1 day working from home.
Essential experience of the Buyer
- Demonstrating experience within a procurement, purchasing or supply chain role
- Working within defence, manufacturing, engineering or a similar technical environment
- Managing supplier relationships and procurement processes end-to-end
- Communicating effectively with internal teams and external suppliers
- Organising workloads and working independently in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications for the Buyer
- Willing 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. 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 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
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: 07/07/2026
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