Buyer

5 months ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**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 Power team as a **Buyer** on our **One Alliance** Project with Anglian Water and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you
**What you'll be doing**
As a **Buyer** you will have the following responsibilities:

- Responsible for the generating of purchase orders and contract numbers for goods and services across Water recycling and Water programme areas
- Develop innovation opportunities within the category
- Ensure all orders are generated and issued to the key stakeholder within the agreed SLA’s (Supply chain provider and the Site team)
- Ensure all orders are noted for expediting where appropriate
- Highlight any potential performance issues both in delivery and communication
- Manage the timely delivery of Alliance goods within the agreed period. Working alongside the Expeditor
- Escalate issues to the relevant Senior Buyer, Procurement lead or Category manager f performance
- Maintain good relationships with the construction team

**Who we're looking for**
Essential skills required;
- Previous experience in a similar role
- Analytical skills
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Data management
- Attention to detail
- Able to manage time pressure and meet strict deadlines

**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’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK08197

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