About the role

At Balfour Beatty, we’re delivering high-quality, sustainable buildings that make a lasting impact across the UK. Our Regional Build business in London is growing — and we’re looking for an experienced Preconstruction Manager to play a pivotal role in securing and setting up projects for success.

Our Regional Build business delivers a diverse portfolio of high-quality projects across sectors including commercial, education, healthcare, residential, and public sector frameworks. With a strong pipeline of opportunities and continued growth across the capital and surrounding regions, we are looking to appoint a Preconstruction Manager who can lead from the front — driving winning strategies, building trusted client relationships, and setting projects up for operational excellence from day one.

We believe the success of every project is determined long before construction begins. The decisions made at preconstruction stage shape programme certainty, commercial performance, sustainability outcomes, and ultimately the experience of our clients and communities. That’s why we place enormous value on strong, strategic preconstruction leadership.

What you'll be doing

As a Pre-Construction Manager you will:

Leading bid and preconstruction activities across a varied portfolio of regional build projects

Developing winning strategies and managing tender submissions

Overseeing cost planning, risk management, and value engineering

Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, consultants, and supply chain partners

Coordinating internal teams including estimating, design, planning, and commercial functions

Ensuring seamless handover from preconstruction to delivery teams.

Who we're looking for

You will have the following:

Proven experience in a preconstruction or bid leadership role within main contracting

Strong commercial awareness and technical understanding of building projects

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

A collaborative mindset with the confidence to lead and influence

A track record of securing profitable work within the London or South East market.

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

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

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

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

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