About the role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Major Projects team as a Supply Chain Manager in London and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
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: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK19425
