Supply Chain Manager - Major Projects - London

About the role

Balfour Beatty has exciting opportunity for a Supply Chain Manager (Major Projects) to join our growing team in London

As a Supply Chain Manager you 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. Working within a cross-functional

environment, the role ensures early alignment of supply chain capability with bid

objectives, client expectations, and commercial targets.

The role is 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

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