Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build a 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high-speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Buyer within the Procurement team. This role will be based on site in Coleshill. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham international.
Role description:
To implement designated procurement plans in accordance with the BBV JV Procurement and Supply Chain Management strategy.
Experience required:
* Experience of complex procurement processes within a construction-related environment.
* Experience of implementing and developing procurement strategies across indirect/direct category led frameworks as well as construction-based subcontract packages.
* Proven track record in managing supplier relationships, negotiation and process compliance.
* Analytical skills, strong commercial awareness, a measured approach to decision making and the ability to ensure best value procurement.
* Ability to adopt a pragmatic, yet disciplined approach to process compliance.
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Benefits of working with us:
* Car/ car allowance
* Flexible working available for some roles
* Free parking
* Travel allowance for eligible candidates
* Family friendly leave policies
* Excellent pension contributions
* Healthcare
* Health risk assessments
* Access to employee assistance programmes
* Access to annual flu vaccinations
Diversity and Inclusion
Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
Flexible working
We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.
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