Senior Buyer

Balfour Beatty Plc

  • Carlisle, PA
  • 5 days ago
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    Our Cultural Framework Evolve, Energise, Explore Our Code of Ethics Diversity and Inclusion Supply Chain Right First Time Digital-first My Contribution Sustainability Health and Safety Volunteering and Charitable Giving

    Our Code of Ethics

    Our Code of Ethics - Doing the Right Thing Speak Up Helpline Policies

    Diversity and Inclusion

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    Civil Engineering Construction Ground Engineering Highways Services and Asset Management Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Project Finance Rail Engineering Specialist services Utilities Integration

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    Local Authority Works Highways Services

    Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

    Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick National Infrastructure Building Services

    Rail Engineering

    Multi-disciplinary Rail Engineering Electrification Track Solutions Rail Plant Design Engineering Signalling Reactive Maintenance Track Supplies

    Specialist services

    Residential Property Management and Development Off-site Solutions Pipe Fabrication and Installation Specialist Structural Repair and Maintenance Structural Steelwork Switchgear Manufacturing

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    Transportation Energy Transition & Security Defence & Security Social Infrastructure

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    Roads Rail Airports Public Spaces

    Energy Transition & Security

    End-to-end Infrastructure Delivery Transmission & Distribution Conventional Nuclear New Nuclear Carbon Capture Wind Electric Vehicle Charging Engineering and Design

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    Commercial Education Healthcare Judicial Residential Housing Student Accommodation Water

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    Job No. BBUK20307

    Senior Buyer - Cumbria

    Kilpatrick

    Procurement

    Cumbria

    Permanent

    About the role

    We are looking for an experienced Senior Buyer to join our Procurement team at Sellafield. This is an exciting opportunity for a procurement professional who enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships, driving value through the supply chain, and contributing to the successful delivery of major projects.

    Join Balfour Beatty and help deliver some of the UK''s most significant nuclear infrastructure projects.

    What you'll be doing

    As a Senior Buyer, you will play a key role in supporting project delivery by managing procurement activities from requisition through to order placement. You will work closely with internal stakeholders, suppliers and subcontractors to ensure materials, services and plant requirements are sourced efficiently, compliantly and cost-effectively.

    You will also support wider procurement initiatives, category management activities and supply chain strategies whilst helping to maximise value and drive continuous improvement across the business.

    Responsibilities;

    • Managing procurement activities and fulfilling business requisitions.
    • Acting as a key point of contact for procurement support, advice and query resolution.
    • Sourcing suppliers and obtaining competitive quotations.
    • Conducting tender processes and evaluating supplier proposals.
    • Managing plant hire equipment and site vehicle requirements.
    • Producing spend analysis, market intelligence reports and procurement data.
    • Developing Supply Chain Strategies and maintaining Procurement Schedules.
    • Building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders and supply chain partners.
    • Identifying opportunities for cost savings and value improvement.
    • Negotiating commercial terms and supplier discounts.
    • Monitoring supplier performance and supporting category management activities.
    • Ensuring compliance with procurement policies, procedures and group agreements

    Who we're looking for

    Essential

    • Experience in a procurement or buying role.
    • Experience managing supplier relationships and procurement processes.
    • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
    • Commercial awareness and negotiation experience.
    • Supply chain management experience.
    • Knowledge of subcontract procurement processes.
    • Experience using procurement and e-tendering systems such as Oracle, Jaggaer or similar.
    • Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
    • Ability to analyse data, identify trends and recommend improvements.
    • Self-motivated, customer-focused and able to work collaboratively within a team.
    • Able to obtain a security clearance

    Desirable

    • Relevant business degree or equivalent experience.
    • Nuclear industry experience or experience working within a highly regulated environment

    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?

    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.

    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.

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    Registered No: 395826

    Registered Office: 5 Churchill Place,

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