Senior Buyer
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Seascale
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 29 Jun 2022
- Closes
- 27 Jul 2022
- Sectors
- Procurement
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
About the role
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. Theyre an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Senior Buyer and you'll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
The role is accountable for conducting tenders and obtaining quotes, analysing data, regular reporting and ensuring compliance to internal policies and procedures. The Senior Buyer, as part of the wider 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.
What you'll be doing
As a/an Senior Buyer, you will have the following accountabilities:
Fulfilling requisitions on behalf of the business
Main POC 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:
Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (desired)
Highly results orientated (proven track record of exceeding targets)
Mature stakeholder management skills
Customer focussed
Knowledge of procurement ERP and e-tendering systems (e.g. Oracle, Jaggaer or similar)
Knowledge of Subcontract Procurement Process
Supply Chain Management Experience
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.
About us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
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.
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
Our projects are more than just your opportunity to make your mark. Theyre an opportunity to stretch, test and develop your expertise. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Senior Buyer and you'll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.
The role is accountable for conducting tenders and obtaining quotes, analysing data, regular reporting and ensuring compliance to internal policies and procedures. The Senior Buyer, as part of the wider 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.
What you'll be doing
As a/an Senior Buyer, you will have the following accountabilities:
Fulfilling requisitions on behalf of the business
Main POC 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:
Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (desired)
Highly results orientated (proven track record of exceeding targets)
Mature stakeholder management skills
Customer focussed
Knowledge of procurement ERP and e-tendering systems (e.g. Oracle, Jaggaer or similar)
Knowledge of Subcontract Procurement Process
Supply Chain Management Experience
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.
About us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
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.
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