Senior Project Manager

About The Role

Senior Project Manager - Balfour Beatty (@one Alliance)

Location:

Thorpewood House, Peterborough (hybrid working available)

Balfour Beatty plays a key role as part of the @one Alliance, a groundbreaking collaboration between Anglian Water and eight industry‑leading partners:
Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, Skanska and SWECO. Together we deliver around 40% of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.

Now working in our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP 8, this role will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment for career progression.

To enhance our ability to develop an optimal programme portfolio for delivery, we are looking for a talented, enthusiastic and experienced Senior Project Manager.

As Senior Project Manager you’ll take ownership of a portfolio of projects, developing delivery strategies and guiding them from initial concept through to client approval and final handover. You’ll oversee all aspects—design, construction, commissioning and aftercare—ensuring projects meet agreed standards and deadlines in a dynamic, rewarding setting. You’ll champion excellent customer service and seek out creative approaches to working and technology that add real value.

• Lead the end‑to‑end management of multiple projects, aligning outcomes with strategic objectives and driving out performance.
• Prioritise Health & Safety, Environment & Quality (SHEQ) throughout all stages, never compromising standards.
• Build and nurture a high‑performing team, coaching and developing individuals to achieve their career goals and enhance organisational capability.
• Manage stakeholders proactively and transparently, fostering collaboration and constructive challenge to achieve shared success.
• Develop and implement commercial strategies, including procurement, for optimal portfolio delivery.
• Balance risk and cost through active leadership, applying timely mitigation strategies as needed.
• Ensure adherence to governance processes and procedures for effective project control.

• APMP or equivalent (Practitioner level) qualification.
• Extensive experience as a Project Manager or Lead Project Manager (Senior PM/Project Director level).
• Proven track record managing schemes valued between £100m and £175m.
• Confident in leading teams and engaging with demanding stakeholders.
• Experience working within commercial alliances and a strong appreciation for collaborative success.
• Demonstrates sound judgement, decisive leadership, and a commitment to driving performance safely and efficiently.
• Innovative, visible, and inspirational leadership style, with a passion for building integrated teams that consistently add value.

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.

• 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’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and add social value to the communities in which we work.

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