Assistant Buyer

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Vinci 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 **Assistant Buyer** within the **Procurement team**. This role will be based on site in Coventry. With 13km of rural high-speed line Sublot 2B extends north from Kenilworth, through Warwickshire, Balsall Common and Burton Green to the River Blythe. The strategy for Sublot 2B is to deliver the main structures enabling full connectivity across the two Network Rail corridor crossings - the Coventry to Leamington Spa Line and the West Coast Mainline at Carol Green - alongside supporting the mass haul of materials between sublots.

**Role description**:

- To assist with procurement activities.
- To facilitate the P2P process at a sublot level, in order to support the delivery teams and ensure constant flow of required materials and services to the project.
- To maximise value to the client through maintaining a cost focus throughout procurement of materials.
- To take ownership of supplier evaluation and performance management metrics.
- To support Procurement Managers and Senior Buyers in the procurement of works, delivery of sub-contract packages and associated reporting, which delivers customer priorities and ensure value is maximised.

**Experienced required**:

- Excellent analytical skills.
- Commercial awareness.
- A measured approach to decision making and the ability to ensure best value procurement.
- Enthusiasm and results focus, together with an ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Attention to detail.
- Financial acumen.
- Proven ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative.

**Benefits of working with us**
- Flexible working available for some roles
- Free parking
- Family friendly leave policies
- Excellent pension contributions
- Healthcare
- 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
- 62 overbridges
- 35 cuttings
- 56 culverts
- 62 embankments
- 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
- 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

**Diversity and Inclusion**

**Flexible working**

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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