Balfour Beatty plc
Supply Chain Manager
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About The Role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Power T&D team as a Supply Chain Manager in Scotland, and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied, and meaningful work.
Please note this is a full-time, permanent position based from either Aberdeen or Maxim, and will require frequent travel across Scotland and occasionally parts of England.
You will play a key role in enabling successful work winning and project delivery across Power Transmission & Distribution. Working in a cross-functional environment, the role will lead strategic supply chain engagement, market-facing activity, and early supplier involvement to ensure supply chain capability is aligned with bid objectives, client expectations, delivery strategy, and commercial targets. Through proactive market engagement and strong supplier relationships, you will ensure supply chain readiness, resilience, and mobilization capability to support successful project outcomes across Scotland.
What you'll be doing
- Supply Chain Strategy: Lead supply chain strategy development for bids and projects, ensuring alignment with win themes, client outcomes, delivery models, and commercial targets.
- Strategic Supplier Relationship Management: Develop and lead a Strategic Supplier Relationship Management programme, including strategic workstreams and continuous improvement plans.
- Supplier Performance Management: Lead Supplier Performance Management, ensuring key improvement actions are tracked and resolved.
- Market Engagement: Drive early supply chain engagement and market intelligence, assessing capacity, capability, risk exposure, and readiness across key sectors and the future pipeline.
- Early Contractor Involvement: Facilitate Early Contractor Involvement with key supply chain partners to optimize design, reduce delivery risk, improve buildability, and unlock innovation and value.
- Packaging Strategy: Define packaging strategies and supply chain architecture to support the right market approach, competitive tension, and alignment with the project delivery strategy.
- Pricing and Solution Development: Secure robust supply chain input into pricing and solution development, supporting estimators with credible, market-tested assumptions across labor, plant, materials, and subcontracting.
- Governance and Risk Management: Champion supply chain governance, compliance, and risk management, ensuring internal standards are met while proactively managing supply chain resilience and performance.
- Reporting: Provide clear reporting on supply chain readiness, risks, and opportunities to support Gate Reviews and senior governance.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement and market-facing best practice, contributing to lessons learned, knowledge sharing, and wider category/supply chain strategy.
- Mobilisation Readiness: Support early partner alignment to enable a smooth transition from bid to delivery.
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Who we're looking for
- Supply Chain Strategy Experience: Experience developing and delivering supply chain strategies within a project, infrastructure, construction, energy, or utilities environment.
- Supplier Relationship Management: Strong supplier relationship management experience, including performance improvement and continuous improvement planning.
- Governance and Compliance: Good understanding of procurement governance, sourcing strategy, risk management, and supply chain compliance.
- Market Engagement: Ability to engage the market early and build strong relationships with key suppliers and delivery partners.
- Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across commercial, operational, technical, and bid teams.
- Results Focus: Highly results-focused, with a proven ability to deliver against targets.
- Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, with the confidence to use initiative and propose practical solutions.
- Communication and Presentation: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting supply chain strategies, risks, and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.
- Digital Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, with experience using digital procurement or performance management systems desirable.
- Professional Qualification: Relevant business degree, MCIPS, or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.
- Sector Knowledge: Knowledge of SSEN, SPEN, transmission, distribution, or Scottish supply chain markets is essential.
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…
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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 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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