My Contribution Senior Executive (18 Month FTC) - London

Balfour Beatty; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the construction industry seeks a My Contribution Senior Executive to coordinate innovative initiatives within its team at Canary Wharf. This role emphasizes operational support, effective communication, and driving employee engagement, ensuring smooth processes that contribute to company goals. Join them and play a vital role in enhancing their innovative contributions and maintaining a highly engaged workforce.

Benefits

Smart working options

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Passion for innovation and ideas driving change.
• Experience of working with large, geographically dispersed teams.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Running an effective MyC triage process and ensuring clear communications.
• Collaborating to deliver improvements on ideas platform and tracking KPIs.
• Supporting campaigns and training teams on platform usage.

Skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Innovation

Teamwork

Job description

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About the role

Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a My Contribution Senior Executive (18 Month FTC) to join our Group Head Office - Communications team based in Canary Wharf on a 18 Month Fixed Term Contract.

You will support all day-to-day operations of My Contribution, ensuring the smooth running of people, process, technology, and communications elements. You will actively participate in the MyC community, working closely with the MyC Team.

What you'll be doing

Your responsibilities include:

• Running an effective MyC triage process, qualifying ideas, identifying common themes, and ensuring clear communications for submitters.
• Collaborating to deliver upgrades and improvements to the ideas platform, reporting dashboards, and social networks.
• Coordinating reports for senior leaders, tracking progress against KPIs, and sharing successes or areas for improvement.
• Regular monitoring of programme results, ensuring quality of idea data in the MyC platform for accurate progress reporting.
• Supporting My Contribution campaigns and events, offering expert guidance to ensure they align with business objectives.
• Programme promotion, education and training, creating impactful communications content such as presentations, sharepoint pages, videos and hub stories.
• Developing creative and aligned communications plans targeting audiences using the best channels available.
• Driving engagement in Viva Engage communities related to MyC.
• Gathering and analysing feedback from employees, Team MyC, and leaders to identify areas for improvement and make informed recommendations to enhance the programme.
• Sourcing engaging examples of ideas, projects, and people stories to share with various audiences.
• Engaging employees, celebrating achievements, and recognizing success through various communication channels.
• Training MyC Leads in ways of working and platform usage and offering ongoing guidance and coordination of the MyC Lead community across functions and businesses to support collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Supporting recruitment, induction and onboarding for new Team MyC members and ongoing engagement strategy.
• Managing ideas needing central coordination.
• Helping to identify and prioritise ideas with significant potential to deliver benefits or to leverage across the business

Who we're looking for

Essential:

• Passion for innovation and ideas driving change within an organisation
• Self starter with excellent organisation skills and strong people and interpersonal skills
• Team player with ability to work with individuals across multiple geographical locations
• Adapts positively to changing business demands and working within tight deadlines
• Experience of working with large, geographically dispersed and diverse virtual teams
• Good communication, written and interpersonal skills, focus on quality and creativity
• Experience of achieving goals and communicating creatively and effectively
• Computer literate and very comfortable with using digital and cloud based technology
• Experience of promoting campaigns and driving engagement in a sizable organisation
• Willingness to travel around the UK

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 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: [e-mail]