Senior Buyer

Balfour Beatty; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Buyer for the @one Alliance project, playing a pivotal role in procurement strategies and high-value negotiations. This position offers a unique opportunity to integrate into project teams and lead significant projects that influence industry standards.

Benefits

Smart working

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior procurement, sourcing, or supply chain role.
• Strong track record in stakeholder management.
• A skilled negotiator, capable of influencing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Aggregating demand across Water Recycling and Water programmes.
• Implementing ethical and effective supply chain selection.
• Driving supplier performance and providing feedback.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder Management

Supplier Performance

Job description

About the role

Senior Buyer– Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

@one Alliance is a partnership of eight leading companies—Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska, and SWECO—delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme. As we enter AMP8, our most ambitious Asset Management Period, we are preparing to undertake our largest project yet. This is a unique opportunity to drive industry change, set global standards, and foster career growth.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Buyer to play a pivotal role in implementing procurement strategies, negotiating high-value transactions, and collaborating with both framework and non-framework partners. In this role, you will be fully integrated into project teams, ensuring key deliverables are met while leading early contractor involvement (ECI) engagements with strategic partners.

As a Senior Buyer, you will be at the forefront of procurement excellence, ensuring best practices and strategic sourcing across major projects.

What you'll be doing

Your responsibilities will include:

• Aggregating demand across Water Recycling and Water programmes, ensuring all procurement requirements are met.
• Implementing ethical and effective supply chain selection to drive value and innovation.
• Supporting on-time project delivery and proactively mitigating potential risks.
• Embedding Health & Safety protocols throughout the project lifecycle.
• Driving supplier performance by issuing scorecards and providing constructive feedback.
• Ensuring all contractual and programme deliverables are met within agreed timelines.
• Identifying and implementing value-driven efficiencies within the supply chain.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships, providing strategic insights, reports, and fostering knowledge sharing.

Who we're looking for

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience in a senior procurement, sourcing, or supply chain role.
• Strong track record in stakeholder management, engaging effectively with diverse teams and senior leadership.
• A skilled negotiator, capable of challenging and influencing decisions with transparency and integrity.
• Results-driven, with a keen focus on supplier performance and continuous improvement.

If you're ready to take the next step in your procurement career and make a real impact within a high-profile alliance, apply today!

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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]

Job Reference: BBUK12946