Buyer
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Buyer in Rosyth, Fife, and play a crucial role in shaping the supply chain for strategic procurement and facilities management that supports high-profile defence projects. This permanent, full-time role offers hybrid working and excellent development opportunities.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage strategic procurement and facilities management for complex projects.
- Conduct supplier due diligence, tender evaluations, and contract negotiation.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental policies.
- Requires MCIPS accreditation or equivalent experience.
- Must achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Buyer within our Marine Engineering & Systems business, you'll play a key role in delivering strategic procurement and facilities management solutions that support complex and high-profile projects. This is an exciting opportunity to influence project success through effective sourcing, supplier management and contract delivery, ensuring best value while minimising risk. Your work will directly contribute to critical infrastructure and operational excellence, offering excellent opportunities for professional development within a dynamic defence, aerospace and engineering environment.
This is a 36-hour per week role based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available, with two days per week onsite.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Conducting supplier due diligence and supporting the development of technical specifications for market engagement.
- Preparing, issuing and evaluating Invitations to Tender, Requests for Quotations and Requests for Information.
- Delivering bid evaluations, commercial comparisons and recommendations that consider total cost of ownership.
- Negotiating, drafting and managing contracts, amendments and extensions, including NEC4-based agreements.
- Ensuring compliance with health, safety, environmental and site-specific policies and procedures.
Essential Experience:
- Demonstrable experience applying procurement and facilities management principles and best practice.
- Good understanding of contract terms and conditions, including the management of flow-down customer requirements.
- Experience working within a facilities management or site-based operational environment.
- Knowledge of day-to-day facilities management operations and commercial delivery.
- Experience using procurement systems, eTendering platforms, contract management tools and cost estimation software.
Qualifications:
Essential:
- MCIPS accreditation, a relevant degree, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven experience developing procurement strategies and leading complex procurement projects.
- Experience managing contract delivery within facilities management, manufacturing or related sectors.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of NEC4 contracts.
- Experience working within defence, engineering or major infrastructure environments.
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.