Agency Labour Supply Chain Manager

Overview

Manage and optimise Balfour Beatty's temporary labour supply chain across construction projects

Key Responsibilities

• relationship management
• workforce strategy
• labour sourcing
• data analysis
• capacity planning
• stakeholder feedback

Tasks

-Strategic Relationship Management. Build and maintain strong relationships with key agency suppliers, ensuring performance, compliance, and alignment with business goals. -Engage with operational and commercial leads across the business to understand workforce requirements and future labour demand. -Subject Mater Expertise. Act as the central point of contact for all labour agency-related matters across Balfour Beatty’s business units. -Contribute to the development of workforce strategies that improve ethical labour practices, compliance, and commercial effectiveness. -Support work-winning efforts by advising on labour sourcing strategy, availability, and risk, particularly in relation to skills availability and supply chain capability. -Developing the blue collar labour strategy. Translate business needs into workforce strategies, supporting supply chain capacity planning and early workforce mobilisation for upcoming projects and bids. -Analyse supply chain performance data and report trends and insights back to key stakeholders within both Balfour Beatty and Nutral -Facilitate two-way feedback between the business and supply chain, identifying opportunities for improvement and resolving issues swiftly.

Requirements

• supply chain
• construction labour
• stakeholder engagement
• commercial awareness
• labour planning
• compliance

What You Bring

-A proactive, solutions-driven mindset and the ability to operate autonomously within a fast-paced, evolving environment -Commercial awareness and the ability to align supply chain performance with business outcomes. -Confident stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills across both operational and executive levels. -Proven experience within the construction labour supply chain, either from an agency background or working client- side with direct exposure to agency workforce supply. -Experience in labour supply planning, supplier performance management, and compliance oversight. -Strong communication skills and the ability to act as a trusted intermediary across multiple parties. -Strong understanding of the challenges, risks, and opportunities associated with temporary labour in construction environments.

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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 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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