Supply Chain Manager - Major Projects

Balfour Beatty plc; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Remote option

Holiday allowance

Pension

Share incentive

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Supply Chain Manager for Major Projects in the UK. You will lead bid supply chain strategy, drive early supplier engagement, and shape sourcing approaches to enhance competitiveness and project outcomes.

Working in a cross-functional team, you will govern risk, enable mobilisation readiness, and ensure alignment with bid objectives, client expectations, and commercial targets. The role offers hybrid working with strong career development.

Qualifications

• Essential experience developing and delivering supply chain strategy.
• Proven ability to manage stakeholders and align teams.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Impactful, results-driven approach to bid and delivery.
• Experience with procurement governance and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead bid supply chain strategy aligned with win themes and commercial targets.
• Develop and lead strategic supplier relationship management programs.
• Implement supplier performance management within Major Projects and Jaggaer system.
• Drive early market engagement and assess capacity, capability, risk, readiness.
• Contribute supply chain inputs to pricing and solution development.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Team player

Customer focused

Flexible and driven

Results oriented

Education

Relevant business degree (or MCIPS)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the role

As Supply Chain Manager will play a pivotal role in enabling successful work
winning and project delivery across Major Projects by leading strategic supply chain
engagement and market-facing activities. You will be working within a cross-functional
environment, the role ensures early alignment of supply chain capability with bid
objectives, client expectations, and commercial targets.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing robust supply chain strategies, securing early commitment from key partners, and shaping value-driven, compliant sourcing approaches that enhance competitiveness. Through proactive market engagement and strong supplier relationships, the Supply Chain Manager will ensure supply chain readiness, resilience, and mobilisation capability to support successful project outcomes

What you'll be doing

• Lead supply chain strategy development for bids, ensuring alignment with win
  themes, client outcomes, delivery models, and commercial targets.
• Develop and Lead a Strategic Supplier Relationship Management Programme
  including Strategic Workstreams and Continuous Improvement Plans.
• Facilitate and fully implement Supplier Performance Management within Major
  Projects via our Jaggaer e-Procurement system, ensuring the resolution of key
  improvement actions.
• Drive early supply chain engagement and market intelligence, assessing
  capacity, capability, risk exposure and readiness across key sectors and
  upcoming work pipeline.
• Build compelling supply chain contributions to PQQ and ITT responses,
  including partner value propositions, delivery models, innovation case studies,
  and demonstrable outcomes.
• Facilitate Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) with key partners to optimise
  design, de-risk delivery, enhance buildability, and unlock innovation and value.
• Define packaging strategy and supply chain architecture, ensuring optimal
  market approach, competitive tension, and alignment to project delivery
  strategy.
• Secure robust supply chain input into pricing and solution development,
  supporting estimators with credible, market-tested assumptions across labour,
  plant, materials, and subcontracting.
• Champion supply chain governance and risk management, ensuring
  compliance with internal standards while proactively managing supply chain
  risk, resilience, and performance.
• Operate as a core member of project/bid leadership teams, integrating supply
  chain strategy with commercial, technical, and design solutions to strengthen
  overall competitiveness.
• Provide clear reporting on supply chain readiness, risks, and opportunities,
  supporting Gate Reviews and senior governance with evidence-based insight.
• Drive continuous improvement and market-facing best practice, contributing to
  knowledge sharing, lessons learned, and category/supply chain strategy
  development.
• Ensure mobilisation readiness through early partner alignment, enabling
  seamless transition from bid to delivery and establishing strong foundations for
  project execution.

Who we're looking for

The following experience/qualifications are essential:

• Relevant business degree or equivalent experience (e.g. MCIPS) (desired)
• Experience in developing and delivering supply chain strategy
• Pragmatic yet disciplined approach to process compliance
• Highly results orientated (proven track record of exceeding targets
• Team player
• Stakeholder management skills
• Flexible and driven
• Customer focussed
• Problem solving skills, ability to use own initiative to identify areas of
  improvement & propose solutions.
• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal skills
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Presentation skills

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 Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.
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

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]