Junior Buyer

Job Title:Junior Buyer
Location: Bristol
Package: Excellent Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full Time / Permanent
Role ID: SF16235
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Junior Buyer at our Farnborough site, where you will provide a 'best-in-class' procurement service for our Construction and Facilities Management Procurement Team, providing full training and autonomy in the role where no project or day is the same. This is a great opportunity if you are interested in starting a career within supply chain and procurement.
About the role
In this level entry role as a Junior Buyer, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary, developing new supplier relationships in order to meet QinetiQ’s future aspirations. You could be working on a range of Fit Outs, Refurbishments and New Build projects on a vast variety of sites including, but not limited to, Hangers, Ranges, Laboratories, Commercial Offices and Test Facilities.
You will have full support of highly experienced Procurement Managers that will provide you with the training and development to be successful. We are therefore open to applications from any relevant industry who are interested in utilising their experience for an innovative organisation that can provide extensive flexibility and home working.
Accountabilities of the Junior Buyer
Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in order to influence behaviours and ensure appropriate involvement of Procurement in all sourcing activities.
Maintain awareness of the restrictions, controls and accreditations that are placed upon suppliers working in a Defence environment, ensuring at all times that both sourcing strategies and the incumbent supplier base do not jeopardise or threaten internal compliance
Ensure compliance with process, governance and controls as agreed in the Procurement Code of Practice and Sourcing methodology.
Collaboratively develop plans with key stakeholders to ensure alignment of targets, improve supplier performance, and implement continuous improvement plans across spend.
Collaborate with peers to develop and enhance systems, process, and best practice sharing to help QinetiQ achieve best in class performance, and bring consistency to sourcing activities.
This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, and can be based out of any of our Qinetiq sites. We offer flexible, adaptive working options, with typically two to three days working from home
Essential experience of the Junior Buyer
Adaptive and change focused; able to adapt pace of delivery to meet business requirements.
Natural and articulate around management. Good listening skills and able to focus on issues critical to senior leaders. Can deliver communication concisely and steer conversation towards decisions needed.
Highly customer focused and concerned with meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
Highly results oriented. Keeps the organization on track and delivery oriented.
Emotionally intelligent and comfortably relates to many different types of people. Is personally self-aware of strengths and weaknesses.
Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance as a minimum. UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our Benefits
Flexible, adaptive working
Generous holiday allowance
Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community
Why join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here .
Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.
About QinetiQ
As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.
Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.