Senior Construction Buyer – Strategic Sourcing & Savings

NG Bailey Group Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with employer contribution up

25 days holiday

Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible benefits

Job summary

NG Bailey is seeking an experienced Senior Buyer to join our Procurement team, delivering major engineering and construction projects across NG Bailey. You will lead procurement from strategy through delivery, collaborating with project teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to secure best value.

You will drive supply chain performance, deliver cost savings, mitigate risk, and ensure the right partners are in place for successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an operational buying or procurement role.
• Experience procuring both high-volume and high-value material and subcontract packages.
• Previous procurement experience within a building services, engineering, MEP, or construction environment.
• Strong negotiation and supplier management skills.
• Excellent commercial awareness and financial acumen.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and procurement/business systems.
• Experience supporting major construction or engineering projects.
• Experience using e-auctions and strategic sourcing tools.
• Knowledge of supplier performance management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead procurement activities across assigned projects and business areas.
• Develop and implement effective procurement strategies that support project and business objectives.
• Manage competitive tendering processes, supplier negotiations, e-auctions, and package procurement.
• Lead supplier performance reviews and implement improvement plans where required.
• Ensure suppliers operate in line with agreed service level agreements and contractual commitments.
• Identify opportunities for volume aggregation, package bundling, and value engineering initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic supply chain partners.
• Produce and manage procurement plans and procurement schedules.
• Work closely with project teams to ensure procurement requirements align with programme and commercial objectives.
• Lead regular procurement review meetings, recording actions and driving timely completion.
• Support project mobilisation through the development of supplier service level agreements and procurement targets.
• Provide procurement expertise and market intelligence throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and manage project procurement savings targets.
• Maintain procurement savings trackers and provide regular reporting to key stakeholders.
• Deliver measurable cost savings while maintaining quality, programme, and compliance requirements.
• Contribute procurement data and performance metrics to business dashboards and reports.
• Support bid and work-winning teams with procurement expertise, market intelligence, and supply chain insights.
• Provide procurement data and advice to help develop competitive and deliverable proposals.
• Foster collaborative working relationships with project teams, suppliers, and key stakeholders.
• Provide guidance and support to colleagues and any direct reports where applicable.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and shared success.
• Champion health, safety, and environmental best practice in all procurement activities.
• Ensure compliance with company processes, procedures, and quality standards.

Skills

Operational buying

Procurement strategy

Negotiation

Supplier relationship management

Stakeholder management

Cost savings

Multitasking

Microsoft Office

Education

CIPS qualification

Tools

Procurement systems

e-auctions

MS Office Suite

Job description

NG Bailey is seeking an experienced Senior Buyer to join our Procurement team, delivering major engineering and construction projects across NG Bailey. You will lead procurement from strategy through delivery, collaborating with project teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to secure best value.

You will drive supply chain performance, deliver cost savings, mitigate risk, and ensure the right partners are in place for successful outcomes.