Assistant Supply Chain Manager in London

Balfour Beatty is looking for an Assistant Supply Chain Manager to join our Power Transmission & Distribution business.

This role can be based from one of our main UK hubs, including Derby, Newcastle, London, Birmingham, Leeds or Warrington.

You’ll take the lead on defined supply chain workstreams, helping to strengthen capacity, capability and resilience across Power T&D. Working closely with our operational, procurement and commercial teams, you’ll turn business and project requirements into practical supplier, market and sourcing solutions.

This is a visible and varied opportunity for a proactive and passionate supply chain professional who enjoys building strong relationships, understanding project needs and turning insight into action. You’ll take ownership of your workstreams from initial analysis and supplier engagement through to implementation, helping ensure our supply chain is well positioned to support the successful delivery of our projects.

This is a full-time, permanent position operating on a hybrid working model, with three days per week based in the office. 

• Strategic Partnership Development: Build, manage, and deepen strategic
  relationships with key suppliers and to support the business’s growth pipeline.
• Strategic Decision Making: Use data and insights from the supply chain to develop and present clear strategies that enable informed business decisions. Take ownership of strategic initiatives and demonstrate readiness to take on greater responsibility.
• Market & Risk Analysis: Conduct market analysis and risk assessments to ensure a resilient and sustainable supply chain.
• Supply Chain Strategy: Support development of supply chain strategies and action plans for projects, programmes, regions or priority work packages.
• Supplier Market Engagement: Supplier market engagement, including research,
  RFIs, capability assessments and development of new market options.
• Early Engagement & Alternative Delivery: Early supplier engagement and alternative delivery initiatives that improve programme certainty, resilience and value.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Cross-functional activity with Operations, Commercial, Engineering, Safety, Quality and Sustainability to progress agreed outcomes.

• Relationship Management: Proven experience in building and managing supplier
  and stakeholder relationships within a complex, fast-growing environment.
• Growth Mindset: Demonstrated interest in learning, personal development, and progressing within supply chain management or related fields.
• Proactive & Transparent Communicator: Comfortable raising challenges early, providing clear details, and collaborating on solutions.
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to use information and data to develop actionable
  strategies and influence business decisions.
• Digital Fluency: Proficient in digital procurement and performance management systems.
• Project & Change Management: Strong project management skills and experience leading change initiatives.
• Professional Development: MCIPS qualification or working towards is advantageous

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.