Assistant Buyer

Location

Dunfermline, Fife | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Title:              Assistant Buyer  
Location:              Rosyth + Hybrid 
Compensation:    Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent  
Role ID:                SF56355

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Assistant Buyer at our Babcock LGE Rosyth site.

Through expert engineering, procurement, project management and aftermarket support – combined with world-leading technologies – Babcock’ s LGE business future-proofs our customers’ assets, allowing improved performance while reducing operational costs and meeting ever-tightening environmental and emission regulations.

The role

As an Assistant Buyer you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be joining a successful Team of other Assistant Buyers and Buyers. Your role will be to support all tasks involved in the formation and administration of Purchase Orders and Purchase Contracts in accordance with the Company Quality Procedures.

Day to day, supported by the Buyer you’ll:
•    Communicate with Suppliers and Personnel within LGE and when necessary within Babcock to establish a clear definition of requirements and to ensure performance to agreed contract terms.
•    Prepare and organise assigned Procurement sponsored meetings, such as bid clarification and post award meetings, for the purpose of ensuring complete understanding and agreement between LGE, the Client (as relevant) and supplier on all contractual matters.
•    Work with the Logistics Team by preparing packing lists, checking letters of credit and issuing shipping instructions as necessary.
•    Support Documentation Control by expediting documents, updating document registers, filing & seeking document approval in a timely manner.

This role is full time 37hrs/week and will be based at Rosyth site with hybrid arrangements: 2 days a week on the office, 3 days working from home. 

Essential experience of the Assistant Buyer:
•    Enthusiastic
•    Willing to learn

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits
•    Generous holiday allowance 
•    Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
•    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 most 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

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.

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