As a Senior Buyer, you'll play a key role in delivering strategic procurement and contract management solutions that support major facilities management and infrastructure activities across one of the UK's most important engineering and defence sites. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead complex procurement projects, influence commercial outcomes, and drive value across a diverse supply chain while supporting projects that contribute to national defence and critical infrastructure.

Working closely with project teams, suppliers, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders, you'll help ensure contracts are effectively managed, risks are mitigated, and projects are delivered successfully. You'll also provide leadership and support to Buyers and an Assistant Buyer, helping develop capability across the team.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Managing complex procurement projects and sourcing activities to deliver value-for-money outcomes.
• Developing and implementing procurement and sourcing strategies for facilities management and capital investment requirements.
• Preparing tender documentation and overseeing requests for information, quotations and tenders.
• Negotiating, reviewing and managing contracts while ensuring commercial compliance and risk mitigation.
• Leading supplier engagement, performance reviews and post-tender activities to achieve quality, cost and delivery objectives.

Essential experience of the Senior Buyer:

• Experience managing contract delivery within facilities management, construction, engineering or manufacturing environments.
• Proven experience developing procurement strategies and leading complex procurement projects.
• Strong contract management and commercial negotiation experience.
• Knowledge and practical application of facilities management procurement methods.
• Experience supervising, coaching or leading procurement team members.

Qualifications for the Senior Buyer:

• Membership of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) or a relevant procurement qualification is desirable.
• Equivalent demonstrable procurement and commercial experience will also be considered.
• Experience working with NEC4 contracts would be advantageous, although training can be provided.

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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.