Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Natural HR Limited Full time

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain's biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain's new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It's an incredibly exciting time to join us - we're at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you'd join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Procurement Manager within the Procurement Function. This role will be based on site in Coleshill Based in Coleshill. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham international..

Role Responsibilities:

  • Propose and develop (in conjunction with the Head of Procurement) indirect and direct Category/Subcontract strategies, delivering the most economical procurement route for BBV and the Contract.
  • Identify demand and capacity issues within the supply chain and the development of risk mitigation strategies
  • Manage procurement relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders
  • Keep abreast of market developments, demand trends and risks, and ensure that each client's requirements are understood
  • Focus on exceeding minimum service expectations by delivering an agile, value adding service with a deep understanding of customer requirements, technical competence, functional knowledge and process efficiency
  • Establish performance led, long term supplier relationships focusing on value for money, service & product quality and continuous improvement to drive competitive advantage for BBV and our Parent Companies.

Experienced required:

  • An understanding of legal frameworks and contract law
  • Substantial project procurement management experience within a construction related environment
  • Experience of projects with sub-contractors and suppliers
  • Proven track record within strategic sourcing, managing supplier relationships, negotiation, process compliance, leading complex sourcing activities and supplier integration into project teams
  • Excellent analytical skills, strong commercial awareness, a measured approach to decision making and the ability to ensure best value procurement
  • An ability to adopt a pragmatic, yet disciplined approach to process compliance
  • MCIPS qualification or degree or similar equivalent preferred not essential

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us


• Flexible working available for some roles


• Travel allowance for eligible candidates


• Family friendly leave policies


• Health risk assessments


• Access to employee assistance programmes


• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI's role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:


• 9.3km of viaducts


• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels


• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality,Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.

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