Continuous Improvement Manager jobs in Scotland

About the role

Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Power T&D team as a Supply Chain Manager in Scotland, and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.

Please note this is a full-time, permanent position based from either Aberdeen or Maxim, and will require frequent travel across Scotland and occasionally parts of England.

You will play a key role in enabling successful work winning and project delivery across Power Transmission & Distribution. Working in a cross-functional environment, the role will lead strategic supply chain engagement, market-facing activity and early supplier involvement to ensure supply chain capability is aligned with bid objectives, client expectations, delivery strategy and commercial targets. Through proactive market engagement and strong supplier relationships, you will ensure supply chain readiness, resilience and mobilisation capability to support successful project outcomes across Scotland.

What you'll be doing

• Supply Chain Strategy: Lead supply chain strategy development for bids and
  projects, ensuring alignment with win themes, client outcomes, delivery models and commercial targets.
• Strategic Supplier Relationship Management: Develop and lead a Strategic Supplier Relationship Management programme, including strategic workstreams and continuous improvement plans.
• Supplier Performance Management: Lead Supplier Performance Management, ensuring key improvement actions are tracked and resolved.
• Market Engagement: Drive early supply chain engagement and market intelligence, assessing capacity, capability, risk exposure and readiness across key sectors and the future pipeline.
• Early Contractor Involvement: Facilitate Early Contractor Involvement with key supply chain partners to optimise design, reduce delivery risk, improve buildability and unlock innovation and value.
• Packaging Strategy: Define packaging strategies and supply chain architecture to support the right market approach, competitive tension and alignment with the project delivery strategy.
• Pricing and Solution Development: Secure robust supply chain input into pricing and solution development, supporting estimators with credible, market-tested assumptions across labour, plant, materials and subcontracting.
• Governance and Risk Management: Champion supply chain governance, compliance and risk management, ensuring internal standards are met while proactively managing supply chain resilience and performance.
• Reporting: Provide clear reporting on supply chain readiness, risks and opportunities to support Gate Reviews and senior governance.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement and market-facing best practice, contributing to lessons learned, knowledge sharing and wider category/supply chain strategy.
• Mobilisation Readiness: Support early partner alignment to enable a smooth transition from bid to delivery.

Who we're looking for

• Supply Chain Strategy Experience: Experience developing and delivering supply
  chain strategies within a project, infrastructure, construction, energy or utilities
  environment.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Strong supplier relationship management experience, including performance improvement and continuous improvement planning.
  
• Governance and Compliance: Good understanding of procurement governance, sourcing strategy, risk management and supply chain compliance.
  
• Market Engagement: Ability to engage the market early and build strong relationships with key suppliers and delivery partners.
  
• Stakeholder Management: Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across commercial, operational, technical and bid teams.
  
• Results Focus: Highly results-focused, with a proven ability to deliver against targets.
  
• Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills, with the confidence to use initiative and propose practical solutions.
  
• Communication and Presentation: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting supply chain strategies, risks and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Digital Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint, with experience using digital procurement or performance management systems desirable.
  
• Professional Qualification: Relevant business degree, MCIPS or equivalent professional qualification is desirable.
  
• Sector Knowledge: Knowledge of SSEN, SPEN, transmission, distribution or Scottish supply chain markets is essential.

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: BBUK21070