- Asset Management
- Bidding
- Legal & Commercial
- Operations
- Project Finance
- Graduates
- Head Office Functions
Six word memoirs
We asked our employees, ‘If you had to sum up your time at Balfour Beatty Capital in just six words what would they be?’ So here’s an insight into what some of the people who work at Balfour Beatty Capital think about their time here to date:
“Projects, meetings, ball – have it all!”
Tzvetelina Bogoina, Bidding, Bid manager
“Started as temp, but still here!”
Anne Da Costa, Facilities Manager
“Connect Roads still leading the way.”
Andy Beauchamp, Director of Operations, Connect Roads
“Who knew work could be fun?”
Julie Hollings, Community Engagement Officer
“Training opportunities; responsibility; variety; CJVs – mmm!”
Ron Johnston, Construction and Design Manager, Consort Healthcare Fife
Asset management
Our asset management team is responsible for optimising the value of our existing equity portfolio and also for all our equity acquisition and disposal activity.
A career in asset management offers the opportunity to play a key part in the future development of Balfour Beatty Capital as well as the wider Balfour Beatty Group. If you have the motivation to help us achieve our investment growth plans and want to work in a team with a broad and exciting remit, we want to hear from you.
Job roles found in this department include:
Transaction Director
Senior Transaction Manager
Six word memoir
"Tie-less deals in rolled up Lewin sleeves"
Bob Reid, Transactions Director, Asset management
Bidding
Our bid managers lead teams preparing for sophisticated multi-disciplinary projects to a demanding timescale.
Each bid is a project in its own right with a budget ‘at risk’ of between £2 million for a £150 million hospital or school, to £10 million for a ‘one-off’ infrastructure project.
The entry level requirement for bid managers is exemplary interpersonal skills, for building successful relationships with the client and our business partners.
The second key requirement is leadership skills, with the bid manager needing to motivate and energise an internal Balfour Beatty Capital ‘core’ team which on some projects can be up to several hundred including financiers, lawyers, designers, cost managers, facilities managers, community liaison and town planners.
The successful bid manager will develop a firm grasp of all the Balfour Beatty Capital core skills, including relationship marketing, systems integration, risk management, finance, whole life costing and commercial management. Along with these skills will come the ability to ask the right questions of the specialists within their team and to make the link between cost, risk and commercial terms.
Job roles found in this department include:
Bid Director
Assistant Bid Manager
Six word memoir
"Pre-Qualify, bid, win; Live love Fife"
Andy Hatton, Senior Bid Manager, Fife Hospitals project.
Legal & commercial
We seek people with an excellent academic background and solid commercial acumen to be commercial managers.
You will assume a broader commercial role in providing advice, input and shaping Private Finance Initiative (PFI) bids and concessions. You will review, develop and negotiate principal agreements and subcontracts. Other aspects of the role include implanting standards to control business risk and liaising with client authorities, contractors, consultants, advisers and partners.
Due to the strong negotiating and contractual element of the commercial team’s work, many of our commercial managers come form a legal background. This is not to say that a legal qualification is required; far from it. Individuals who can display sound judgement, an ability to analyse and negotiate complex commercial structures and develop these into fully drafted contracts (with the help of external lawyers), whilst playing a pivotal role within a bidding team will be equally qualified for this role. Moreover, the broader commercial skills possessed by those with an engineering, industry or quantity surveyor background can equally be brought to bear within this role.
Job roles found in this department include:
Commercial Manager
Assistant Commercial Manager
Operations
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As part of the concession team, you will be responsible for delivering the project on a day to day basis.
We recruit from a variety of backgrounds, but often find that many of our concession based staff live locally, meaning that our people really do understand and appreciate the importance of the project to the local community.
Working life on a concession can be varied, with no two days being the same. As a member of the team you will liaise with a wide variety of people including construction, facilities management and the local community. It is through this partnership working that we ensure our projects are delivered correctly and with the maximum benefits for everyone.
Job roles found in this department include:
Project Director
Construction & Design Manager
Project finance
Our project finance team is comprised of individuals from a range of backgrounds including industry, advisory and banking. The team’s role encompasses two main elements:
• To procure, structure and negotiate debt and equity finance for our PPP/PFI sector
• To ensure that equity investment returns are commensurate with the risks taken on
Balfour Beatty Capital has strong relationships with most of the leading providers of senior debt, financial equity and advisory services in the PFI/PPP sector. Whilst working very closely with these partners, advisors and lenders, the natural preference of the project finance team is to take a proactive lead in financing projects with a rigorous and challenging approach that is demanding of lenders and advisors. Internally, the team work closely with the Balfour Beatty Capital board, bid directors, commercial and asset management teams, finance department and with senior management in Balfour Beatty plc.
We seek people who want to operate in a competitive, transaction based environment and who will embrace and enhance our team culture. In return we offer the opportunity to gain experience across a broad spectrum of projects and to make a major contribution to the long term success of our business.
Job roles found in this department include:
Project Finance Manager
Financial Analysis Manager
Graduates
We give our graduates the opportunity to gain experience in across the business and to learn from a host of experienced and talented managers. As a management trainee, our graduates spend time in all business sectors to gain an all-round understanding of Balfour Beatty Capital with a view to specialising in a specific field at the end.
The graduate programme lasts two years. The first year consists of four modules of three-month placements. As bidding and operations are key to the success of our business, a placement in each of these areas is mandatory. The optional modules are: legal & commerce; project finance; marketing; health, safety, environment & risk; and asset management. Our programme recognises the importance of giving meaningful and challenging work. At the end of the first year our graduates choose a business area where they would like to spend the second year of the programme.
Requirements
• a good degree (at least a 2:1 degree) in one of the following degree subjects - Science, Maths, History, Geography, Law, Economics, Business Studies, Management Science or Engineering (non professional route).
• can-do attitude
• strong interpersonal skills
• people focused skills
• computer literate
• Strong interest in being involved in complex PFI projects working with leading edge legal and financial advisers
• Language skills, preferably German, Cantonese, Chinese for overseas projects
• Experience or study of PFI Investments
http://www.balfourbeatty.com/graduates/
Six word memoir
“Sale, Sheffield, Singapore. Ready for more!””
Philip Dorin, Graduate Manager
Head office functions
Marketing
Our marketing team is responsible for marketing communications and community engagement in both bidding and operations. Based in our Manchester office, the team manage our brands, ensuring that our values, goals and strategies are appropriately reflected in all our communications both internally and externally.
Risk and HSE Department
Our risk and HSE team is responsible for advising directors, senior managers and employees on a broad range of occupational health and safety, sustainability including the environment, and risk issues. The team manage and maintain our management systems within risk, safety and sustainability and seek strategic development of these areas to keep us at the forefront of our industry whilst making a positive contribution to society as a whole. Every day we can address a very diverse range of safety technology and safety engineering issues in all our business sectors from primary identification of hazards and assessment of risks to providing safety and sustainability solutions that have to be practical, realistic and reliable.
A career in the risk and HSE department offers the opportunity to see the strategic picture and play a key part in being at the forefront of risk, safety and sustainability management throughout our business operations, where no two days are alike. A role within the department requires a skilled multi-disciplinary approach to develop new innovative ideas and realistic and approachable solutions. We need natural communicators too, to design and present employee training programmes. If you up for a challenge, enthusiastic, are of postgraduate level or equivalent with a background in science, engineering or medicine / medical sciences, we want to hear from you.
Six word memoir
"Activity, complexity, diversity, urgency and fun"
Ian Scott, General Manager Risk and HSEQ
Finance
Our finance team is based in our central London office. The team’s work is varied and covers management and financial accounting and analysis, financial modelling, systems development and implementation. The team also support our commercial and general management teams at locations throughout the UK.
HR
Our HR team is responsible for delivering a comprehensive HR service to the business. Based in London and Manchester, their work is varied and includes recruitment, training and development as well as providing an advisory service to its line managers and employees.