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
- 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.
Benefits
Aside from contributing to impactful work, we offer a full range of flexible benefits tailored to you:
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- Smart working – up to 40% remote working (where roles allow)
- Flexible hours, including staggered start/finish times
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family-friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave, 4 weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Comprehensive benefits including pension, share incentive plans, volunteering leave, and recognition schemes
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About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including:
- Motorway upgrade programmes
- Complex National Infrastructure projects
- Regional investment programme works for National Highways
We prioritise the road user, focusing on safety, reducing carbon emissions, and delivering social value to communities.
Diversity and Inclusion
Balfour Beatty is committed to diversity and inclusion. Through our strategy and action plan, we’re fostering a workplace where everyone thrives, regardless of identity or background.
Our partnerships include:
- WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum
- Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE)
We’ve signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to strengthen Black inclusion efforts.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we actively recruit and support people with disabilities and long-term health conditions.
If you have feedback on our process, contact: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
Please apply to become part of our ambitious, inclusive team.
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