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Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a Agency Labour Supply Chain Manager to join our Enabling Functions - Procurement team.

This role can be based at any UK office, with regular travel to BB and subcontractor offices/sites required.

The ideal candidate will come from an Agency Labour background, bringing strong experience in managing temporary labour supply chains and working with multiple stakeholders.

Within this role, you'll support Balfour Beatty in managing and optimising its temporary labour supply chain. Labour is high spend and high risk to Balfour Beatty. This role takes ownership for supporting operational performance for over £300m spend, across tens of suppliers.

This pivotal role acts as the primary interface between Balfour Beatty's operational teams, its agency supply chain, and Nutral as the Managed Service Provider (MSP). The successful candidate will help drive consistency, performance, and strategic alignment across a diverse and complex construction portfolio.

• Developing the blue collar labour strategy. Translate business needs into workforce strategies, supporting supply chain capacity planning and early workforce mobilisation for upcoming projects and bids.
• Subject Mater Expertise. Act as the central point of contact for all labour agency-related matters across Balfour Beatty's business units.
• Strategic Relationship Management. Build and maintain strong relationships with key agency suppliers, ensuring performance, compliance, and alignment with business goals.
• Engage with operational and commercial leads across the business to understand workforce requirements and future labour demand.
• Facilitate two-way feedback between the business and supply chain, identifying opportunities for improvement and resolving issues swiftly.
• Support work-winning efforts by advising on labour sourcing strategy, availability, and risk, particularly in relation to skills availability and supply chain capability.
• Contribute to the development of workforce strategies that improve ethical labour practices, compliance, and commercial effectiveness.
• Analyse supply chain performance data and report trends and insights back to key stakeholders within both Balfour Beatty and Nutral
• Changes in strategy, process, or supplier status to relevant project stakeholders.

• Proven experience within the construction labour supply chain, either from an agency background or working client- side with direct exposure to agency workforce supply.
• Strong understanding of the challenges, risks, and opportunities associated with temporary labour in construction environments.
• Confident stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills across both operational and executive levels.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to align supply chain performance with business outcomes.
• Experience in labour supply planning, supplier performance management, and compliance oversight.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to act as a trusted intermediary across multiple parties.
• A proactive, solutions-driven mindset and the ability to operate autonomously within a fast-paced, evolving environment

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.

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...

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.

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 candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com