Supply Chain Manager - Major Projects

About the role

As Supply Chain Manager 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. You will be working within a cross-functional
environment, the role ensures early alignment of supply chain capability with bid
objectives, client expectations, and commercial targets.

In this role, you will be 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 want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We're making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we've got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments.

We're looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via candidaterecruitmentenquiries@balfourbeatty.com