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

• 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 Work streams 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.

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

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:

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