Senior Buyer

**About the role**
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 **Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick** team as a **Senior Buyer** and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

The role is accountable for conducting tenders and obtaining quotes, analysing data, regular reporting and ensuring compliance to internal policies and procedures. The Senior Buyer, as part of the wider Procurement team, will be expected to support any initiatives and processes, and actively contribute to the delivery of the team’s strategy. The role will require regular supplier and subcontractor sourcing, engagement and support.

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

- Fulfilling requisitions on behalf of the business
- Main POC 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
- 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

**Who we're looking for**
You will have the following:

- Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (desired)
- Highly results orientated (proven track record of exceeding targets)
- Mature stakeholder management skills
- Customer focussed
- Knowledge of procurement ERP and e-tendering systems (e.g. Oracle, Jaggaer or similar)
- Knowledge of Subcontract Procurement Process
- Supply Chain Management Experience
- Demonstrates negotiation skills

**Why work for us**
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.

**About us**
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

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.

Job Reference: BBUK01675