Delivery Manager

About the role

Location:Southampton

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Balfour Beatty Living Places is looking for an experienced Delivery Manager to lead the safe, efficient and commercially successful delivery of programming, design and project delivery activities across our Southampton contract.

Managing programmes and schemes worth up to £35m per annum
, you'll provide strategic leadership across planning, design and project management teams, ensuring client priorities, contractual commitments and business objectives are achieved.

• Leading the delivery of capital programmes and operational projects across the Southampton contract.
• Providing leadership to Programming, Design and Project Management teams.
• Driving collaboration across planning, design and delivery disciplines.
• Managing contract performance, governance, risk and reporting.
• Championing a culture of Zero Harm and continuous improvement.
• Working with commercial teams to manage budgets, resources, forecasting and change.
• Building strong relationships with Client, supply chain partners and key stakeholders.
• Promoting data-driven decision making through digital tools and performance reporting.

• Proven leadership experience within project delivery, construction, highways or infrastructure environments.
• Strong commercial and contractual knowledge.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience managing teams and developing high-performing individuals.
• Ability to create and implement delivery strategies.
• Strong understanding of performance management and key delivery metrics.
• Customer-focused with a collaborative leadership style.
• Ability to present complex information clearly and effectively.
• Experience across a variety of project types.
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Professional Management or Project Delivery Qualification/s.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs 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…

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

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

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://disabil

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: candidate recruit