Buyer

5 months ago

Warrington, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role**
Our innovative thinking shapes our industry; equipping the world for tomorrow’s challenges.

Join our **Enabling Functions** team as a **Buyer** supporting our Regional Civils business unit and you can contribute to tangible, worthwhile work you can be proud of

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

- Fulfilling requisitions on behalf of the business
- POC for the Northwest Delivery Unit, to provide support, resolve queries and offer advice
- Ensuring internal spend compliance
- Conducting tender processes
- Supplier meetings and engagement
- 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**
The following qualities/experience are required:

- Previous experience within a Construction Procurement role
- Knowledge of Subcontract Procurement Process
- Supply Chain Management Experience
- Knowledge of procurement ERP and e-tendering systems (e.g., Oracle, Jaggaer or similar)
- Customer focussed
- Problem solving skills, ability to use own initiative to identify areas of improvement & propose solutions.
- Demonstrates negotiation skills
- MCIPS/studying towards CIPS/willingness to undertake CIPS equivalent qualifications would be an advantage, but is not essential

**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 Beattys Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.

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: BBUK04902

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