Senior Buyer

2 weeks ago

Aylesbury, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

Here at Balfour Beatty, our work inspires communities and advances society. Our commitment to sustainability looks even further - generations further.

Join our **Living Places** team as a **Senior Buyer** and you’ll be part of our legacy.

This role is based around Buckinghamshire.

As a **Senior Buyer** you will have the following accountabilities:

- Management of the end-to-end procurement activities for the sourcing of subcontracts, materials, plant, and equipment for the Buckinghamshire contract. There may also be a requirement to support other contracts in the Business Unit as required
- Compiling procurement strategies, preparation of RFQ’s / ITT’s, management, and evaluation of returns, and making sourcing recommendations to award contracts
- Manage specific supply chains within the Contract to monitor performance and drive continuous improvement to support Contract and Business Unit key objectives
- build upon existing supply chain capacity and expertise, develop relationships with new suppliers where appropriate, and embed collaborative working with the customer and the supply chain

**The following qualities/experience are required**:

- The ability to adopt a pragmatic, yet disciplined approach to process compliance, is essential
- Experience of Oracle R12 or other ERP systems and Jaggaer e-procurement platforms advantageous; however, training can be provided if applicant has no experience of these
- An understanding of how to run end to end procurement projects from market research, through sourcing, to contract and supplier management
- Experience in Category Management, SRM and SPM is desirable
- Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against bid / project milestones
- Well-developed negotiation skills are essential, along with experience of running tenders and negotiating complex deals of high value/ business impact, with a track record of delivering value
- Analytical, numerically astute with well-developed problem-solving abilities
- Well-developed commercial nous and an awareness of financial risks and how to manage them
- Robust problem-solving skills, ability to use own initiative to identify areas of improvement and propose solutions
- Able to prioritise a challenging workload of competing priorities
- Highly customer focused and desire to meet and exceed customer expectations

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