Job Description

About the role

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a HR Business Partner to join join our growing team.





The purpose of this role is to provide HR expertise and contribute as a business leader to the performance of Enabling Functions Leadership teams by implementing and delivering against their People Plans, to ensure we have the capacity and capability required to achieve business aims.

What you'll be doing

Creating and implementing a resource plan that optimises expertise to confidently meet the requirements of our current and future workload. This includes forecasting requirements for strategic, experienced and emerging talent hires, aligned to key locations and professions. Drive the full scope of the talent agenda including succession planning so that talented individuals are appropriately identified, have development plans that will enable them to move into bigger roles and are engaged in their development and career progression Ensuring plans to develop capability are appropriate to achieve the business strategy by building career paths and development solutions (by utilising current BB material but also identifying additional enabling function specific development) Steering leaders in diagnosing the current effectiveness of the organisation and outlining robust proposals that give confidence in reliably achieving the medium term business outcomes. Diagnosis and proposals should consider structure, culture, people and skills and end to end processes in the context of the business strategy. Applying change management expertise to ensure that changes are planned and implemented in a way that applies best practice, complies with legislation, realises intended benefits and minimises unnecessary ER activity, costs and disruption to delivery performance Accountable for supporting the leadership teams with architecting and embedding a culture that's inclusive, engaging, innovative, collaborative, safe and committed to high quality and high performance outcomes. It's expected that supporting leaders with team effectiveness sessions will be an important feature of achieving this Ensuring that our people plans will support progress towards meeting our 2030 D&I targets, including aligning plans with the Social Impact teams. Support the Leadership teams with activities relating to employee engagement including action planning, feedback and long term engagement strategy which aligns to customer requirements Owning the interface with HR teams within Balfour Beatty to ensure HR operational excellence, maximum value for the business and a seamless and well understood cycle of HR activity for individuals.

Who we're looking for

Demonstrable experience working within the context of complex, matrix organisations is required Experience of leading Organisational Effectiveness programmes and complex change is preferred Experience of project managing initiatives relevant to HR Technical knowledge and broad understanding of ER context - ie re-organisations Ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with very senior stakeholders including the ability to constructively challenge those in more senior positions Highly developed commercial skills, be emotionally intelligent and able to coach and influence senior colleagues Understanding of the wider employment, skills and training landscape Collaborative with an exceptional ability to manage a large number of stakeholders A strong communicator who is confident and articulate

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.

About us

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



Job Reference: BBUK14690