What you'll be doing

• As a member of the Rail Executive Leadership Team, contribute to the implementation of the Rail business strategy


• Own the P&L for the Rail Systems business, ensuring that our projects are delivering to budget and contributing to the wider Rail Business being able to achieve its budget


• Build and maintain healthy client relationships, creating opportunities for new work to ensure a healthy pipeline and order book


• Use business intelligence to anticipate programme developments and identify future opportunities to drive profitable and sustainable growth


• Stay abreast of key client and government initiatives and developments to anticipate future programme opportunities


• Develop and maintain collaborative and meaningful relationships with clients and understand and anticipate customer needs in order to identify, develop and secure long term growth


• As a business leader will lead by example to deliver on Build to Last objectives of:
  
  
  
  • Lean – Control costs and effectively manage and deliver against budget for their business
  
  
  • Trusted - Live the values & demonstrate the Leadership Behaviours; actively lead Rail Systems to ensure the delivery of the positive economic, social, and environmental outcomes
  
  
  • Expert - Build a learning organisation that develops, retains, and promotes talent
  
  
  • Safe - Ensure a personal relentless focus on Zero Harm
  
  
  • Sustainable -  Carbon reduction and maximise social value
  
  
  
  


• Build and retain a high performing team that is flexible, motivated, and engaged to deliver the Rail Strategy


• Demonstrate visible and inspirational people leadership promoting an inclusive and diverse culture


• Provide strong operational input into the tender process, assess bids from a performance perspective and approve relevant bid “stage gates”


• Build strong relationships with all partners to deliver value, enhance revenue growth and reputation for effective delivery within the sector


• Ensure effective project set-up, design, and delivery to deliver customer satisfaction and the agreed commercial outcomes


• Create and foster a learning culture which encourages sharing of best practice, knowledge, and expertise to act as a though leader within the industry


• Leading by example and setting the behavioural standards needed to relentlessly drive the highest standards of safety and wellbeing.

Who we're looking for

• Successful track record of leading a P&L for a portfolio or programmes or projects in the infrastructure sector


• Can demonstrate collaborative working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure the efficient running of the rail business; relationship builder with evidence of building national relationships with customers and strategic partners


• Ability to manage large projects and programmes of work in a complex, matrix organisation


• Commercially astute, exhibit a high level of determination, versatility and adapt to on change


• Excellent leadership skills, which encompass a high degree of empathy and support

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 works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.

From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.

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