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Buyer
3 months ago
**Buyer**
* **Job number:**
UK18930
* **Company/Division:**
Enabling Functions
* **Career area:**
Procurement
* **Country:**
UK
* **Location:**
UK, West Midlands, Birmingham
* **Contract type:**
Permanent
**About the role**
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a **BUYER** to join our Enabling Functions team to work in Birmingham**.**
**Role Purpose:**
* The role is accountable for conducting tenders and obtaining quotes, analysing data, regular reporting and ensuring compliance to internal policies and procedures. The Buyer, as part of the wider England & Wales Procurement team, will be expected to support any initiatives and processes, and actively contribute to the delivery of the teams strategy. The role will require regular supplier and subcontractor sourcing, engagement and support.
* The successful candidate will be a point of contact for the Central Delivery Unit within the wider England & Wales Procurement team. They will be responsible for fulfilling significant / complex material requisitions to point of order as well as supporting with supply chain and subcontract category management in the region. This includes accountability for the creation of Intelligence Reports and Supply Chain Strategies as well as support of pipeline projects and management of Procurement Schedules. The successful candidate will also be tasked with ensuring utilisation of group agreements by the business and the subcontract supply chain.
**What you'll be doing**
You will have the following accountabilities:
* Fulfilling requisitions on behalf of the business
* Main POC for the Central Delivery Unit, to provide support, resolve queries and offer advice
* Ensuring internal spend compliance
* Sourcing suppliers and obtaining quotations
* Conducting tender processes
* Commodity research and spend analysis
* Supplier meetings and engagement
* Creation of Supply Chain Strategies
* Management of Procurement Schedules
* Building and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders
* Identifying key trends or opportunities for cost reduction
* Negotiating discounts and savings
* Supplier performance management
* Subcontract Supply Chain & Category Management
* Ensuring accurate reporting of savings and value add activities
* Ensuring adherence to procurement processes and procedures
**Who we're looking for**
You will have the following qualities and experience:
* Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (desired)
* Experience within a Procurement role
* Highly results orientated (proven track record of exceeding targets)
* Strong team player
* Strong stakeholder management skills
* Flexible and driven
* Customer focussed
* Problem solving skills, ability to use own initiative to identify areas of improvement & propose solutions
* Demonstrates strong written and verbal skills
* Knowledge of procurement ERP and e-tendering systems (e.g. Oracle, Jaggaer or similar)
* Knowledge of Subcontract Procurement Process
* Supply Chain Management Experience
* Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
* Demonstrates negotiation skills
**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
Balfour Beattys Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:
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