Supply Chain Lead

Derby, England, United Kingdom

1/29/2025

About the role

Customers come to us because we can take on and solve any kind of challenge, no matter how complex.

Join our Group Procurement team as a Supply Chain Lead and you’ll help make this happen!

The Supply Chain lead role involves sourcing suppliers for direct materials, developing and maintaining strong supplier relationships, and collaborating with Strategic Business Units and the Central Procurement team to create and implement category strategies that align with business goals

We are open to base location for this role, Travel will be required regularly to various BB & Supplier offices sites.

What you'll be doing

As Supply Chain Lead you will have the following accountabilities:

• Develop, Support and Implement Our Procurement Triple ‘A’ Framework: Support the creation and execution of frameworks for direct materials, ensuring alignment with business goals and sustainability objectives.
• Develop and Manage Category Plans: Create and manage comprehensive category plans that align with business strategy and sustainability objectives.
• Build and Maintain Preferred Supplier Network: Develop and manage a network of preferred suppliers to ensure high-quality and cost-effective procurement.
• Negotiate Agreements: Leverage Balfour Beatty’s market scale to negotiate favourable agreements with suppliers.
• Monitor Supply Market: Continuously monitor the supply market to identify potential new suppliers and products and meet with suppliers to understand their offerings.
• Track and Mitigate Risks: Identify and evaluate supply and cost risks within the category and develop mitigation plans.
• Conduct Materiality Assessments: Perform assessments to categorise supply chain risks and implement assurance activities, including checks, reviews, and assessments.
• Develop Strong Stakeholder Relationships: Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to drive category strategy and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Implement Supplier Relationship Management: Establish and maintain processes for continuous improvement in supplier relationships.
• Focus on Performance and Value: Establish performance-led supplier relationships that focus on value for money, service and product quality, and continuous improvement.
• Exceed Service Expectations: Deliver an agile, value-adding service demonstrating understanding of customer requirements, technical competence, functional knowledge, and process efficiency.

Who we're looking for

Essential:

• Customer Focus: Highly customer-focused, consistently meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
• Communication Skills: Natural and articulate communicator with good listening skills, able to focus on issues critical to senior leaders and steer conversations towards necessary decisions.
• Analytical Skills and Commercial Awareness: Excellent analytical skills with strong commercial awareness, enabling informed decision-making.
• Pragmatic Approach: Ability to adopt a pragmatic yet disciplined approach to process compliance.
• Professionalism and Integrity: Independent worker with a high degree of professionalism and integrity.
• Effective team player with strong collaborative skills.

Desirable:

• Previous experience in Buying Construction Materials: Experience in sourcing and managing construction materials for Tier 1 or major construction contractors.
• Commodity Materials Category Management: Experience in managing commodity materials categories, ensuring best value procurement.
• Professional Development: CIPS qualified or currently studying towards CIPS.
• Procurement experience: Experience within procurement, managing budgets of up to £5 million.
• Negotiation and Compliance: Demonstrated ability in negotiation and process compliance, achieving cost savings and ensuring adherence to procurement processes.

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

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com