Balfour Beatty plc
Business Resilience & Innovation Manager
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About The Role
We’re looking for a forward-thinking Group Business Resilience & Innovation Manager to strengthen how Balfour Beatty anticipates, responds to and adapts in a changing environment. In this role, you’ll embed resilience and innovation into business planning and operational decision-making, ensuring we remain agile, prepared and future-ready.
Working closely with senior leaders and teams across the business, you’ll help translate ideas into practical solutions, from strengthening resilience frameworks to advancing innovation initiatives. This is a key role where you’ll drive continuous improvement, enhance performance and support long-term growth.
The location for this role is UK flexible, with a mix of office-based and home working in line with our flexible working policies.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the ongoing development and enhancement of the Business Resilience Framework, ensuring it remains practical and aligned to business priorities
- Support the delivery and evolution of the Innovation Framework, embedding innovation across the organisation
- Integrate resilience thinking into transformation, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Coordinate business continuity, incident response, and crisis management planning across business units
- Plan and deliver resilience testing, exercises, and assurance activities, driving meaningful improvements from insights
- Identify emerging risks, trends, and opportunities, providing actionable recommendations to strengthen preparedness
- Build strong relationships across functions to identify vulnerabilities and enable innovation-led improvements
- Monitor performance, maintain reporting, and provide clear insights to leadership and governance forums
- Enable a culture of resilience and innovation through training, engagement, and knowledge sharing
- Support the identification and deployment of innovative solutions to improve efficiency, performance, and resilience
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Who We're Looking For
Background & Skills
- Experience in business resilience, innovation, transformation, or continuous improvement
- Strong understanding of business continuity, incident management, and resilience principles
- Proven ability to develop and improve frameworks, processes, or governance structures
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Strong planning, organisation, and project coordination capability
- Ability to identify and implement practical improvement and innovation opportunities
- Confident communicator, with strong influencing and facilitation skills
- Analytical mindset with experience producing reporting and performance insights
- Experience supporting transformation or change initiatives
Culture Fit
- Proactive, self-motivated, and driven to deliver outcomes and identify opportunities
Why Work For Us
Day-to-Day Impact
At Balfour Beatty, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting, and meaningful projects, developing, building, and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Benefits
Aside from the rewarding impact you’ll make, we offer a personalised benefits package tailored to your needs. Here are our key benefits:
- Smart working: Up to 40% remote working, flexible start/finish times
- Paid annual leave: 25 days (pro rata)
- Family-friendly policies:
- 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave
- 4 weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Additional benefits: Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes
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About Us
Balfour Beatty's Group Enabling Functions—Legal, Finance, IT, Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR, and Sustainability—support our Build to Last strategy. We focus on improving efficiencies, standardising approaches, systems, and processes.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Balfour Beatty, we believe diversity and inclusion are fundamental to a successful workplace. Our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy fosters:
- Equity and support for all identities and backgrounds
- Inclusive culture where everyone can thrive Resources: www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
We actively support external partnerships like:
- WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum
- Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE) In 2020, we signed the AUDELLIS and Involve Open Letter—committing to long-term, sustainable action on Black inclusion.
We also recognise and value:
- Veterans, reservists, and Armed Forces personnel (we’re a Gold Award holder in the MoD Employer Recognition Scheme)
- Disability equality—as a Disability Confident Employer, we commit to interviews if you meet minimum requirements. More info here
If you have feedback on our recruitment process, please share it at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com.
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