Buyer

2 weeks ago

Slough, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role**
Your contributions will help us create new opportunities and possibilities every day - for us, for the country’s infrastructure, and for yourself.

Join our **Regional Civils** team as a **Buyer** and open up new pathways you never dreamt possible

This role is supporting projects based around the South of England, locations such as Wokingham, Exeter, Plymouth are a few. Travel will be expected.
**What you'll be doing**
As a Buyer you will have the following responsibilities:

- Fulfilling requisitions on behalf of the business
- Projects POC for the South Delivery Unit, to provide support, resolve queries and offer advice
- Ensuring internal spend compliance
- Sourcing suppliers and obtaining quotations
- Conducting tender processes
- 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 & ensuring accurate reporting of such along with value add activities
- Supplier performance management
- Ensuring adherence to procurement processes and procedures

**Who we're looking for**
The following skills and experience are required:

- Highly results orientated (proven ability to complete tasks efficiently and promptly, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes under tight deadlines
- Highly organised
- Demonstrates negotiation skills
- Strong team player
- Strong 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 Subcontract Procurement Process (desired)
- Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

**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**
With a strong track record of delivery, our civils teams connect communities through infrastructure projects in the highways, public realm, rail, flood and coastal defence, and industrial sectors across England and Wales.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK11225

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