Buyer-Submarines

Job Description

Job Title: Buyer

Working Pattern: Full Time / Onsite

Working location: Derby

At Rolls-Royce we have an exciting an opportunity for a Buyer to join our team in Derby.

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining RollsRoyce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.The Buyer role at Rolls–Royce plays a key part in managing supplier relationships and ensuring the delivery of high- quality, cost effective materials and services to support our high -performing Supply Chain to support our world-class engineering programmes. We are seeking experienced professionals for Indirect Buyer roles as well as Electrical and Mechanical Buyer positions, to contribute to our continued success and innovation .

Regional Benefits

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three+ days per week.

What you will be doing

This is an exciting opportunity to join Roll-Royce in Derby as a Buyer within our Submarines business. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development and execution of integrated commodity and category strategies supporting the delivery of critical supply chain strategies and drive operational excellence within a highly regulated and technically advanced environment. .

• Cost Management : Work with suppliers to identify and deliver cost reduction opportunities in line with agreed contracts and relevant cost models.
• Strategic Sourcing : Support the execution of sourcing and contract negotiations to maximise value across designated commodities and categories.
• Commercial Acumen: You will play an important part in helping us create novel and collaborative ways to contract with our suppliers, as well manage a multitude of in-contract commercial issues as they arise. Effective contract management is a key compliance requirement.
• Processes and Procedures : Ensure compliance with company policies , processes and procedure. Maintain accurate purchasing records and documentation in line with regulatory requirements..
• Stakeholder Management : Nurture effective relationships with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external to the function in order to support functional priorities
• Resource Management : Support the embedding and sustainment of a high performance culture within your team.
• Programme management - You will have good planning and project management skills that are able to develop comprehensive workable solutions in complex situations and will support the deployment of risk management practices to assess, communicate and mitigate supply chain risks.
• Supplier Code of Conduct :Responsible for understanding supplier obligations contained in the Global Supplier Code of Conduct and addressing any supplier compliance concerns through direct action or escalation. Responsible for ensuring that supplier compliance to the Global Supplier Code of Conduct is maintained.
• Supply Chain Transformation – You will have the opportunity to play your part to help us achieve our Supply Chain Transformation goals which is an exciting time for our function.

Basic and preferred qualifications

• BA degree or equivalent or significant industry experience.
• Ideally MCIPs qualified or equivalent.
• Global outlook and exposure to different challenges, cultures and ways of working.
• Familiarity with purchasing and supply chain management preferred.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Good planning / project management skills.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

For more than 60 years Rolls-Royce Submarines has designed, supplied and supported the nuclear propulsion plant, providing power for all UK Royal Navy nuclear submarines.

To work for Rolls-Royce Submarines an individual must hold a Security Check clearance. We will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t already have it. Due to the nature of work we conduct, we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

Closing date: 1st December 2025

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