Buyer

Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. They’re an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise.

Join our Enabling Functions team as a Buyer and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

The successful candidate will be a point of contact for the South West section of the South Delivery Unit within the wider Civils Procurement team.

As a Buyer, you will have the following accountabilities:

• Fulfilling requisitions on behalf of the business
• Main POC for the South West section of the South Delivery Unit, to provide support, resolve queries and offer advice
• Ensuring internal spend compliance
• Sourcing suppliers and obtaining quotations
• Conducting tender processes
• Commodity research and spend analysis
• Supplier meetings and engagement
• Creation of Supply Chain Strategies
• Management of Procurement Schedules
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders supported by the Procurement Manager
• Identifying key trends or opportunities for cost reduction
• Negotiating discounts and savings
• Supplier performance management
• Subcontract Supply Chain & Category Management
• Ensuring accurate reporting of savings and value add activities
• Ensuring adherence to procurement processes and procedures

You will have the following:

• Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (desired)
• Highly results orientated (proven track record of exceeding targets)
• Strong team player
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Flexible and driven
• Customer focussed
• Problem solving skills, ability to use own initiative to identify areas of improvement & propose solutions.
• Demonstrates strong written and verbal skills
• Supply Chain Management Experience
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Demonstrates negotiation skills
• Strong Organisational Skills
• Self Starter

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Balfour Beattys Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ’Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/