Procurement Business Systems Lead in Newcastle upon Tyne

About The Role

Shape the Future of Procurement Systems at Balfour Beatty. We’re looking for a Procurement Business Systems Lead to take ownership of our UK eProcurement solution and play a pivotal role in shaping how Procurement operates across the Balfour Beatty Group. If you’re passionate about optimising systems, simplifying processes, and driving real business improvement, this is your opportunity to step into a high-impact role with Group-wide visibility.

Location: Newcastle, Sheffield or London

Direct Reports: 2 Analysts

What you’ll be doing:

• Own and manage the UK eProcurement solution and related platforms, continuously identifying and delivering improvement opportunities.
• Lead system and process improvement projects in line with the Procurement systems roadmap.
• Provide expert support to procurement teams across multiple business units when specialist eProcurement knowledge is required.
• Partner with our system provider to relay user feedback and stay engaged with upcoming developments.
• Maintain governance, ensuring the system is well-managed with clear processes and high-value templates.
• Drive solution adoption across the organisation.
• Engage and influence key stakeholders across Procurement, IT, Commercial and Finance to ensure effective and efficient solution design.
• Support Group-wide priorities, contributing subject matter expertise to key projects and initiatives.
• Represent Procurement as an expert function, promoting best practice and consistency across the business.

Who we’re looking for:

• Strong procurement experience, with hands-on exposure to P2P, procurement systems and eProcurement solutions.
• Confident, articulate communication skills with the ability to guide conversations and support decision-making.
• Excellent organisational and analytical capabilities.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills, able to work effectively with senior stakeholders across a complex organisation.
• Experience delivering process improvements in a large business.
• A track record of simplifying complex issues and delivering fast, effective solutions.
• A customer-focused mindset, consistently aiming to exceed expectations.
• Integrity, professionalism and the ability to work independently.
• Effective team leadership and collaboration 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.

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.