Senior Buyer

Overview

Manage high-value procurement, supplier relationships, and strategic sourcing for major projects.

Key Responsibilities

• supplier relationships
• strategic sourcing
• contract negotiation
• project alignment
• procurement leadership

Tasks

-Build strong supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost, and delivery targets are met. -Drive strategic sourcing initiatives and negotiate contracts that deliver real value. -Collaborate with project teams to align procurement with programme milestones. -Lead procurement activities for complex, high-value packages.

Requirements

• adaptability
• procurement
• nec contracts
• supply chain
• negotiation
• stakeholder management

What You Bring

-Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-profile environment. -Proven experience in procurement or buying within construction, engineering, or manufacturing. -Knowledge of NEC contracts and supply chain management is a plus. -Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

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Benefits

-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 -Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow. -Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About Balfour Beatty Plc

-It finances, designs, constructs and maintains roads, rail, energy plants, water systems, buildings and communities. -Active across the UK, US, Hong Kong and Canada, it's known for ventures like HS2, Crossrail and major highway upgrades. -Known for innovation, it uses digital tools, off-site manufacturing and automated plant to enhance safety and efficiency. -An unusual highlight: it pioneered the Automated Cone Laying Machine, boosting roadworker safety on live highways.

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