Pre construction Manager - Motherwell

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About the role

Job Title: Pre-Construction Manager

Location: Motherwell / BB Maxim Business Park, Eurocentral

Project Type: Various around Scotland

Company: Balfour Beatty Group Employment Limited (UK).

About Us:

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Our innovative thinking shapes our industry, equipping the world for tomorrow's challenges. Join our Regional Scotland team as a Pre-Construction Manager and you can contribute to tangible, worthwhile work you can be proud of.

You will lead, manage and co-ordinate all aspects of large scale bids/proposals (and sometimes PQQs) ensuring that high quality, compelling proposals are delivered to the customer in a manner consistent with the Balfour Beatty Gated Lifecycle and our strategy for winning the right business.

You will establish and maintain positive and effective relationships with customers and will manage elements of the Technical Services team, with focus on bidding and estimating within the Delivery Unit, to deliver technical support during the tender and delivery process.

Own your career, and you can build something to be proud of at Balfour Beatty. By joining our well-established construction teams working on our significant future pipeline of large-scale construction projects in Scotland you will work with true experts who will share their knowledge and provide support, encouragement, and invaluable feedback so you never stop learning. Bring us your capability, and we'll help you take it much, much further.

What you'll be doing

As a Pre-Construction Manager, you will have the following responsibilites:

• Participate in the selection of realistic, achievable, profitable opportunities
• Formulate and agree bid, proposal & win strategies with senior management to secure profitable orders
• Form relationships with the customer to develop clear understanding of their requirements to enable development of our value proposition
• Establish, manage and maintain an approved budget
• Oversee and lead the preparation, coordination and delivery of presentations to customers as required, to successfully communicate our proposals
• Attendance at key customer meetings and industry events (e.g. bidder open days)
• Oversee the establishment, production and implementation of pre-construction management processes.
• Develop technical expertise to differentiate the regional business from competing regional businesses
• Ensure that technical support is provided throughout bids/proposals and delivery as required
• Provide leadership to the design, development and engineering solutions teams, ensuring effective resource allocation to bid/proposal teams and projects
• Lead and manage teams effectively to work with customers, to optimise value in bids/proposals and on projects
• Support the Delivery Unit Commercial team in post bid/proposal negotiations
• Ensure that identified risk and opportunity is managed as part of the pricing process
• Participate in providing the "winning strategy" including margin/profit decisions
• Supervise and provide commercial & technical advice to estimators
• Assist with and prepare documentation for submission to the customer
• Ensure that considered responses are produced to customer generated questions / queries during / after the tender/proposal process
• Ensure that appropriate and adequate handover information is generated to enable the project operational and commercial team to fully understand the delivery strategy adopted in the tender/proposal and that all relevant documentation is transferred!

Who we're looking for

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships across the entire supply chain.
• The ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines is essential, as is a flexible attitude to deal with a variable and demanding workload. It is important to be a strong team player with proven experience of leading a work winning team, but also able to work on own initiative.
• Able to prepare written proposals to Clients questions to form successful bids/proposals.
• Strong all round knowledge of commercial issues is required alongside a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and Estimating Systems prevalent within the industry.

The following qualifications are essential:

You will hold a valid CSCS card, hold membership of a relevant professional body such as RICS, CIOB or ICE or be qualified through experience gained in a similar role.

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development, and career opportunities.

We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it's sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

*70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.

For further information about Balfour Beatty Regional Scotland please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers/Scotland - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

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

From Dunfermline's tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.

We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.

Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland's transition towards net zero in the built environment.

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

We are 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