Balfour Beatty plc
Recruiter - Enabling Functions
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty has ambitious growth plans, and our Enabling Functions teams are at the heart of making that possible. From Finance and HR to Legal, Procurement, Communications and IT, these functions provide the expertise, governance and support that help our operational businesses deliver some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects.
We're looking for a talented and driven recruiter to help us attract the exceptional people who will support our continued success. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing resourcing team and partner with business leaders across a broad range of professional and enabling functions disciplines. You'll act as a trusted advisor, bringing market expertise, commercial insight and a proactive approach to securing top talent in a competitive market.
This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys managing multiple priorities and can confidently build relationships with demanding stakeholders. You'll play a key role in shaping hiring outcomes, influencing recruitment strategies and ensuring an outstanding experience for both candidates and hiring managers.
This role is based from our offices in Derby, with hybrid working arrangements available, offering the opportunity to collaborate closely with colleagues while benefiting from flexible ways of working.
What you'll be doing
- Lead end-to-end recruitment across a diverse portfolio of enabling functions roles.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand business needs and develop effective recruitment strategies.
- Deliver high-quality shortlists through proactive sourcing, networking and talent attraction activity.
- Provide expert market insight and advice on talent availability, attraction approaches and hiring decisions.
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders and confidently influence, challenge and manage expectations.
- Manage multiple vacancies simultaneously while maintaining excellent delivery standards and service levels.
- Drive an exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
- Champion Balfour Beatty's employer brand through social media, talent engagement and networking activities.
- Use recruitment data and insights to improve hiring outcomes and support informed decision-making.
- Ensure accurate ATS management, process compliance and recruitment reporting.
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Who we're looking for
- Experience delivering end-to-end recruitment within an in-house, RPO or agency environment.
- Proven track record recruiting across Finance and/or other Corporate Functions disciplines.
- Strong sourcing capability with the ability to identify and engage high-calibre talent.
- Credible and confident in building relationships with senior stakeholders and hiring managers.
- Skilled at influencing, challenging and managing expectations to achieve the right hiring outcomes.
- Agile and highly organised, with the ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Commercially minded, using market insight and data to inform decisions and drive results.
- Collaborative, proactive and committed to delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
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?
Benefits
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…
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Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.
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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