Regional Social Impact Manager

Balfour Beatty Investments - North America; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Remote work 40%

Annual leave 25 days

Pension scheme

Family friendly policy

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a regional team leader in the Midlands/Central region. This hybrid role supports offices across the Midlands with regular travel to projects, clients and partners.

The role can be full-time or flexible, with a focus on developing a high-performing team and delivering across multiple business units. You will lead a regional team of about nine, including five direct reports, steer performance, coaching, succession planning and inclusive leadership.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
• Proven ability to plan resources, allocate workload and ensure delivery performance.
• Strong coaching, mentoring and talent development capabilities.
• Experience aligning governance, standards and ways of working across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Direct leadership responsibility for a regional team of approximately nine employees, including five direct reports.
• Team performance and development.
• Resource planning and workload management.
• Performance and career conversations.
• Coaching and mentoring.
• Talent development and succession planning.
• Creating an inclusive, high-performing team culture.

Skills

Team leadership

Performance management

Resource planning

Stakeholder influence

Coaching & mentoring

Talent development

Diversity & inclusion

Strategic communication

Job description

About the role

This role offers hybrid working and can be based from any suitable Balfour Beatty office within the Midlands and Central region.

Regular travel across the region is required to support projects, business units, clients, supply chain partners and team members. Occasional national travel will be required for team meetings, strategic planning sessions, conferences and client engagement.

This role can be full time or reduced/flexible working arrangement.

What you'll be doing

• Direct leadership responsibility for a regional team of approximately nine employees, including five direct reports.
• Team performance and development
• Resource planning and workload management
• Performance and career conversations
• Coaching and mentoring
• Talent development and succession planning
• Creating an inclusive, high-performing team culture

Who we're looking for

• Significant experience leading and developing high-performing teams. Proven experience managing workload, resource allocation, capacity planning and delivery performance.
• Ability to influence, coach and support senior stakeholders to make responsible and commercially effective decisions.
• Strong people leadership, including performance management, mentoring and talent development.
• Experience establishing standards, governance and consistent ways of working across multiple teams or business areas.
• Strong organisational, communication and relationship management skills. Demonstrable commitment to responsible business practices and positive outcomes for people, communities and the wider business.

Desirable:

• Experience in inclusive procurement, supplier diversity or social value delivery.
• Experience in inclusive recruitment, workforce development, employment initiatives or early careers programmes.
• Experience supporting work winning, client engagement and bid development.
• Experience developing frameworks, governance arrangements, reporting approaches or improvement programmes.

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.

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