Balfour Beatty plc
Senior Supply Chain Manager - Highways
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About The Role
We’re looking for a strategic and forward-thinking Senior Supply Chain Manager to play a critical role in shaping and delivering a best-in-class supply chain strategy across our Highways business. In this high-profile role, you’ll align supply chain priorities with wider business objectives, ensuring we have the right partners, capabilities and capacity to deliver complex infrastructure programmes successfully.
Working closely with procurement leadership, project teams and key suppliers, you will build and embed a sector-leading approach to supplier relationship management.
This is an opportunity to lead at scale, driving performance, improving resilience and influencing how we work with our supply chain to deliver safer, more efficient and more sustainable outcomes for our customers.
The role is UK flexible, with travel to key Highways locations and projects as required.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the development and delivery of supply chain strategies aligned to business and programme objectives
- Drive category strategies across key spend areas to maximise value and support effective project delivery
- Provide market insight through analysis of supplier capacity, capability and trends to inform decision-making
- Build and manage strategic relationships with key suppliers to enhance performance and collaboration
- Oversee supply chain performance management, using data and KPIs to drive continuous improvement
- Develop reporting tools and dashboards to provide clear visibility of performance, risks and opportunities
- Partner with project teams to ensure supply chain solutions are fully integrated and outcome-focused
- Drive improvements in safety, quality, cost and delivery through supply chain engagement and innovation
- Lead and develop a team, fostering a high-performance, collaborative and inclusive culture
- Support sustainability, digital and process transformation initiatives across procurement and supply chain
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Who we're looking for
- Proven experience in strategic sourcing, supply chain management and complex procurement environments within the construction or infrastructure sectors
- Strong track record in supplier relationship management, negotiation and delivering best value outcomes
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insight
- Commercially astute with sound judgement and a structured approach to decision-making
- Experience developing and implementing supply chain or category strategies at scale
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
- Collaborative and innovative mindset, with the confidence to challenge and improve existing practices
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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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