About the role
We’re looking for a Head of Procurement to lead procurement and supply chain strategy for our growing Regional Buildings business across England and Wales. As a key member of both the Regional Buildings Senior Leadership Team and the UK Procurement Leadership Team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping business performance, supporting growth ambitions and ensuring our projects have access to the capability, capacity and partnerships needed to succeed.
This is a highly strategic leadership position where you'll work across a diverse portfolio of complex construction programmes, including major Defence opportunities and other priority sectors. You’ll bring market insight, supply chain expertise and commercial leadership to business-critical decisions, helping to drive resilience, value and competitive advantage across the organisation.
The role location is UK flexible with regular travel.
- Lead the procurement and supply chain strategy for Regional Buildings, aligning delivery with business objectives, growth plans and customer requirements.
- Shape business-wide decision-making as a senior leader, providing commercial and supply chain expertise to complex operational challenges.
- Oversee programme and portfolio demand planning, ensuring supply chain capability and capacity support current and future workloads.
- Build and maintain executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers, customers and key industry partners.
- Support major bids and pre-construction activity, developing supply chain solutions that strengthen winning strategies and project delivery.
- Drive procurement governance, risk management and compliance while partnering with commercial teams to maintain effective controls.
- Lead category management strategies that secure critical resources, optimise value and enhance business competitiveness.
- Identify and mitigate supply chain risks, market pressures and capacity challenges to ensure continuity and resilience.
- Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing procurement team, building capability, succession plans and consistent ways of working across multiple locations.
- Champion UK-wide procurement initiatives and lead the Manufactured Systems category, driving best practice, value creation and supply chain assurance.
Who we're looking for
- Proven senior leadership experience within a construction, infrastructure, engineering or project-based environment.
- Strong track record of leading and developing high-performing procurement and supply chain teams through periods of growth.
- Extensive experience in procurement, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders, customers and strategic suppliers.
- Proven ability to develop and execute long-term procurement and supply chain strategies that deliver measurable value.
- Strong commercial acumen with a focus on value creation, margin improvement and risk mitigation.
- Experience operating within structured governance environments and managing complex commercial risk.
- Strong understanding of construction and infrastructure supply chain markets, including capacity planning and risk management.
- Knowledge of manufactured systems, fire safety requirements and Building Safety Act considerations within the built environment.
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: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK20387
