Buildings and Construction UK Buyer

Guidant Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidant Global partners with Airbus to recruit a Buildings and Construction UK Buyer at the Broughton site. The role leads high-value procurement across construction services, driving sourcing, tendering and contract negotiations while building supplier relationships and supporting long-term projects, including Belfast.

The successful candidate will manage supplier relationships, ensure value delivery, and align with cost, time and quality requirements for multi-site operations, with a minimum

Qualifications

• More than five years' experience within procurement, operations or facilities management.
• Experience developing and implementing procurement strategies.
• Strong commercial negotiation and contract management skills.
• Knowledge of procurement contracts within a building or construction environment.
• Advanced project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical capability, including business cases and financial KPIs.
• Ability to balance competing priorities involving customers, suppliers, budgets and delivery timescales.
• Professional-level English, including the ability to conduct commercial negotiations.
• A collaborative, transparent and customer-focused approach.
• Ability to work autonomously and deliver effectively without close supervision.
• Strong commitment to ethics, compliance and responsible procurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement projects and competitive tendering exercises across building and construction services.
• Implement procurement strategies aligned with business requirements and project objectives.
• Source and manage suppliers covering services such as architecture, planning, construction, project management and building controls.
• Negotiate, establish and implement national and international framework agreements.
• Manage supplier relationships throughout the tendering, contracting and contract lifecycle.
• Ensure contractual deliverables meet agreed cost, time and quality requirements.
• Lead cross-functional teams through supplier selection and procurement activities.
• Challenge specifications, support demand management and identify opportunities to improve value.
• Monitor supplier performance using clear, evidence-based KPIs.
• Address performance concerns and initiate recovery actions where required.
• Support the development of national, international and trans-divisional procurement strategies.
• Produce benchmark, costing and make-or-buy analysis to support commercial decisions.
• Contribute to savings initiatives through specification challenge, standardisation, volume aggregation and demand control.
• Help develop an efficient and competitive supply chain that supports current and future business needs.
• Promote compliance with procurement processes, ethical standards and contractual requirements.
• Support the use of procurement tools and techniques, including e-procurement and e-catalogues.

Job description

Buildings and Construction UK Buyer

Location: Broughton, FlintshireWorking arrangement: Minimum three days onsite each week, with Tuesdays and Thursdays mandatoryHours: 35 hours per week across 4.5 days, worked between 7:00am and 7:00pm subject to business requirementsPAYE rate: Up to £32.89 per hourUmbrella rate: Up to £44.00 per hourIR35 status: InsideSecurity clearance: BPSS+ clearance requiredTravel: Limited travel to other UK sites may be required

Shape the supplier partnerships behind major construction projects

Guidant Global is partnering with Airbus to recruit an experienced Buildings and Construction UK Buyer based at the Broughton site.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of high-value, strategic procurement activity covering construction services across the Airbus UK estate. You will lead sourcing, tendering and contract negotiations while building effective supplier relationships and supporting long-term projects, including a new project in Belfast.

Working across multifunctional and multi-divisional teams, you will help secure competitive commercial outcomes, strengthen the supplier base and ensure services are delivered safely, efficiently and in line with cost, quality and schedule requirements.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead procurement projects and competitive tendering exercises across building and construction services.
• Implement procurement strategies aligned with business requirements and project objectives.
• Source and manage suppliers covering services such as architecture, planning, construction, project management and building controls.
• Negotiate, establish and implement national and international framework agreements.
• Manage supplier relationships throughout the tendering, contracting and contract lifecycle.
• Ensure contractual deliverables meet agreed cost, time and quality requirements.
• Lead cross-functional teams through supplier selection and procurement activities.
• Challenge specifications, support demand management and identify opportunities to improve value.
• Monitor supplier performance using clear, evidence-based KPIs.
• Address performance concerns and initiate recovery actions where required.
• Support the development of national, international and trans-divisional procurement strategies.
• Produce benchmark, costing and make-or-buy analysis to support commercial decisions.
• Contribute to savings initiatives through specification challenge, standardisation, volume aggregation and demand control.
• Help develop an efficient and competitive supply chain that supports current and future business needs.
• Promote compliance with procurement processes, ethical standards and contractual requirements.
• Support the use of procurement tools and techniques, including e-procurement and e-catalogues.

What We're Looking For

Essential

• More than five years' experience within procurement, operations or facilities management.
• Experience developing and implementing procurement strategies.
• Strong commercial negotiation and contract management skills.
• Knowledge of procurement contracts within a building or construction environment.
• Advanced project management skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical capability, including business cases and financial KPIs.
• Ability to balance competing priorities involving customers, suppliers, budgets and delivery timescales.
• Professional-level English, including the ability to conduct commercial negotiations.
• A collaborative, transparent and customer-focused approach.
• Ability to work autonomously and deliver effectively without close supervision.
• Strong commitment to ethics, compliance and responsible procurement.

Desirable

• Experience within the building and construction procurement category.
• Building project management experience.
• Procurement business school qualification at master's level, an engineering degree, or an architecture or construction qualification supported by strong commercial and procurement knowledge.
• Experience within manufacturing engineering or facilities management.
• Knowledge of supply chain management, market analysis, procurement strategy and relevant legal considerations.
• French, Spanish or German language skills.
• Experience working across multicultural, international or multi-site environments.

Why Join?

Support significant construction and infrastructure procurement activity across Airbus.Contribute to a long-term project environment, including support for a new project in Belfast.Work with national and international suppliers across a varied construction services portfolio.Build experience across strategic sourcing, supplier management, commercial negotiation and contract delivery.Collaborate with multifunctional and multi-divisional stakeholders.Work within a hybrid arrangement, with a minimum of three days each week at the Broughton site.Inclusive Recruitment

Guidant Global is committed to creating an inclusive recruitment experience. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and will consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

If you have relevant procurement, construction, facilities management or operations experience and can bring strong commercial judgement to complex supplier relationships, we would like to hear from you.