Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Procurement Manager
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About The Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join us at Balfour Beatty, in your role as Senior Procurement Manager, you will lead procurement across designated Power T&D Scotland programmes and projects, shaping and translating business objectives into procurement and supply chain strategies that support work winning, project delivery, and sustainable growth.
Reporting to the Head of Procurement, the role owns procurement performance across the allocated portfolio, provides leadership through Procurement Managers and wider procurement teams, and ensures supply chain capability, commercial outcomes, and governance are aligned with business and customer requirements.
As a member of the Scotland Procurement Leadership Team, the role influences senior stakeholders, develops future market capacity, and uses pipeline and market intelligence to improve delivery certainty, resilience, and long-term value.
What you'll be doing
Strategy and portfolio leadership
- Own procurement strategy and performance across the allocated portfolio, translating programme demand, customer priorities, and business objectives into clear delivery plans.
- Shape routes to market, packaging strategies, supplier engagement, and aggregation opportunities using market intelligence and forward pipeline visibility.
- Provide strategic direction on priorities, key decisions, risks, and opportunities, ensuring procurement remains ahead of programme requirements.
- Lead critical negotiations, high-value procurement activities, and supplier escalations, presenting clear options and recommendations where senior intervention is required.
- Define and track procurement value across cost, programme certainty, risk reduction, resilience, innovation, carbon, and social value.
Supply chain and market development
- Assess supply chain capability and capacity against current and future programme demand, identifying constraints and developing practical mitigation plans.
- Convert pipeline visibility into focused market engagement and capacity priorities, creating confidence for strategic suppliers to invest in people, facilities, and delivery capability.
- Lead portfolio-level supplier segmentation, identifying where strategic relationships, improvement plans, capacity commitments, or alternative market solutions are required.
- Broaden capable supply options through supplier development, new entrants, and innovative delivery models, including opportunities progressed through Deliver Differently.
- Use portfolio insight to influence category strategies, framework development, and sourcing models across Power T&D Scotland and the wider business.
Leadership and capability
- Lead, coach, and develop Procurement Managers, Senior Buyers, Buyers, and Graduates, creating clear accountability from strategy through to delivery.
- Deploy resources across programmes and projects in line with complexity, priority, capability, and development need.
- Build succession, capability, and workforce plans aligned to future business requirements.
- Create a high-performing culture that promotes ownership, collaboration, constructive challenge, early escalation, and continuous improvement.
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Stakeholder and customer leadership
- Provide strategic procurement advice and constructive challenge to Operations, Commercial, Preconstruction, and Project leadership teams.
- Represent Procurement at programme reviews, governance forums, customer meetings, and executive discussions, presenting concise, evidence-based recommendations.
- Build trusted relationships with customers and senior stakeholders on procurement strategy, value for money, market testing, capacity, and portfolio obligations.
- Lead procurement input to key bids, preconstruction, and early contractor involvement, challenging assumptions, risk allowances, and proposed routes to market.
Governance and commercial assurance
- Ensure procurement activity complies with delegated authorities, customer requirements, and business procedures, with decisions appropriately evidenced and approved.
- Maintain senior oversight of sourcing, tendering, evaluation, recommendation, and award activity across the portfolio.
- Work with Commercial leadership to balance contractual risk, value, and delivery certainty, escalating significant departures from approved strategy or commercial position.
- Maintain audit readiness and drive consistent standards.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Significant procurement leadership experience within infrastructure, utilities, energy, construction, or another major-project environment.
- Proven experience leading procurement across multiple projects, programmes, or portfolios, including leadership through Procurement Managers or senior procurement professionals.
- Strong strategic sourcing, subcontract procurement, supplier management, and commercial negotiation experience.
- Demonstrable experience supporting work winning, preconstruction, mobilisation, and project delivery.
- Ability to influence and constructively challenge senior and executive stakeholders in governance-led environments.
- Strong commercial judgement, analytical capability, and the ability to identify, manage, and escalate risk.
- Experience assessing market capacity and converting insight into practical supply chain solutions.
- Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to provide concise recommendations to senior decision-makers.
Desirable
- MCIPS qualified or working towards Chartered Membership of CIPS.
- Experience within Power Transmission & Distribution or wider energy infrastructure.
- Knowledge of ASTI, RIIO-T2, and RIIO-T3 programmes and associated customer governance.
- Experience of supplier development, capacity creation, and major infrastructure bids.
- Working knowledge of NEC forms of contract.
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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?
Benefits
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 ongoing 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
At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.
We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com
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