You’ll take the lead on defined supply chain workstreams, helping to strengthen capacity, capability and resilience across Power T&D. Working closely with our operational, procurement and commercial teams, you’ll turn business and project requirements into practical supplier, market and sourcing solutions.

This is a visible and varied opportunity for a proactive and passionate supply chain professional who enjoys building strong relationships, understanding project needs and turning insight into action. You’ll take ownership of your workstreams from initial analysis and supplier engagement through to implementation, helping ensure our supply chain is well positioned to support the successful delivery of our projects.

This is a full-time, permanent position operating on a hybrid working model, with three days per week based in the office.

What you'll be doing

Strategic Partnership Development: Build, manage, and deepen strategic
relationships with key suppliers and to support the business’s growth pipeline.
Strategic Decision Making: Use data and insights from the supply chain to develop and present clear strategies that enable informed business decisions. Take ownership of strategic initiatives and demonstrate readiness to take on greater responsibility.
Market & Risk Analysis: Conduct market analysis and risk assessments to ensure a resilient and sustainable supply chain.
Supply Chain Strategy: Support development of supply chain strategies and action plans for projects, programmes, regions or priority work packages.
Supplier Market Engagement: Supplier market engagement, including research,
RFIs, capability assessments and development of new market options.
Early Engagement & Alternative Delivery: Early supplier engagement and alternative delivery initiatives that improve programme certainty, resilience and value.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Cross-functional activity with Operations, Commercial, Engineering, Safety, Quality and Sustainability to progress agreed outcomes.

Who we're looking for

Relationship Management: Proven experience in building and managing supplier
and stakeholder relationships within a complex, fast-growing environment.
Growth Mindset: Demonstrated interest in learning, personal development, and progressing within supply chain management or related fields.
Proactive & Transparent Communicator: Comfortable raising challenges early, providing clear details, and collaborating on solutions.
Strategic Thinker: Ability to use information and data to develop actionable
strategies and influence business decisions.
Digital Fluency: Proficient in digital procurement and performance management systems.
Project & Change Management: Strong project management skills and experience leading change initiatives.
Professional Development: MCIPS qualification or working towards is advantageous

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 Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com

Job Reference: BBUK21717