Senior Buyer

**About the role**

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for an
**Senior Buyer** to join our Enabling Functions team to work in
**Motherwell, Scotland / Manchester / Langley.**

**Role Profile**:
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 Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick 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 **Senior Buyer**, you will:

- Fulfill requisitions on behalf of the business
- Main POC for the Building Services stakeholders within the business, to provide support, resolve queries and offer advice
- Ensure internal spend compliance
- Source suppliers and obtain quotations
- Conduct tender processes
- Commodity research and spend analysis
- Supplier meetings and engagement
- Create Supply Chain Strategies
- Manage Procurement Schedules
- Build and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders
- Identify key trends or opportunities for cost reduction
- Negotiate discounts and savings
- Supplier performance management
- Subcontract Supply Chain & Category Management
- Ensure accurate reporting of savings and value add activities
- Ensure adherence to procurement processes and procedures

**Who we're looking for** Personal Qualities & Experience**:

- Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (desired)
- Strong experience within a Procurement role
- Highly results orientated (proven track record of exceeding targets)
- Team player
- Mature stakeholder management skills
- Flexible and driven
- Customer focussed
- Problem solving skills, ability to use own initiative to identify areas of improvement & propose solutions.
- Demonstrates strong written and verbal skills
- Knowledge of procurement ERP and e-tendering systems (e.g. Oracle, Jaggaer or similar)
- Knowledge of Subcontract Procurement Process
- Supply Chain Management Experience
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- 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’s 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: BBUK02420