Buyer - Derby, United Kingdom - Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty
Balfour Beatty
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Derby, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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About the role
Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty.

By joining our
Procurement team as a
Buyer in
Balfour Beatty Living Places, you'll work with true experts who'll share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning.

Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

The base location for this role is flexible but will require frequent travel to our Local Authority clients.

What you'll be doing
As a Buyer, you will have the following accountabilities:

  • Management of the end to end procurement activities for the sourcing of subcontracts, materials, plant and equipment for various Living Places highways, maintenance and public realm contracts
  • Using the Jaggaer eprocurement portal, development, and governance of package specific sourcing plans with project team, including RFIs/RFQs/RFPs
  • Coordination, governance, and maintenance of Procurement Schedules, in conjunction with Commercial teams
  • Support in negotiation of terms, conditions, and prices against tender allowances/target costs
  • Process requisition orders and raise Purchase Orders in line with company procedures and delegated levels of authorities and expedite as required
  • Manage supply chain performance objectively via the Jaggaer e procurement performance module and provide regular reports to include performance development plans as required, to ensure continuous improvement within the supply chain
  • Collaborate with suppliers and project team to assist with the resolution of supply issues as and when required, escalating as required
  • Monitor the supply market to identify potential new suppliers and products and lead meetings with suppliers to understand their products and the category market, keeping abreast of market developments, demand trends and risks to proactively support the project requirements

Who we're looking for

You will have the following:

  • An understanding of how to run end to end procurement projects from market research, through sourcing, to contract and supplier management
  • Prior exposure to negotiating commercial deals and contractual terms and conditions
  • Experience of planning and delivering against bid/project milestones
  • Robust problemsolving skills and ability to use own initiative to identify areas of improvement and propose solutions
  • Awareness of commercial and financial risks and how to manage them
  • Highly customer focused and desire to meet and exceed customer expectations

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.


Why join us?


As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too.

You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life.

Here are some of our key benefits:

  • Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
  • 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
  • Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
  • Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us
Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability.

Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.


Diversity and inclusion

Job Reference:
BBUK08863
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