Pre construction Manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Job Title: Pre-Construction Manager
Location: Motherwell / BB Maxim Business Park, Eurocentral
Project Type: Various around Scotland

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!

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.

• 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