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Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We're seeking a dynamic and experienced Business Improvement Lead to join our Painter Brothers team in Hereford.

This is an amazing opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in a great place to work. We offer a collaborative and inclusive work environment that values diversity and innovation and will support your professional growth and development.

Painter Brothers is one of the UK's leading specialist in structural steel manufacture. We have the capacity to produce in excess of 15,000 tones of steelwork each year. Our 50,000m2 site has a wide range of machinery meaning we can manufacture and store any type of structural steelwork, including galvanised specialist structural steelwork.

As the UKs largest fabricator of towers for the overhead power transmission network, we are embarking on a period of considerable growth. With the government committed to delivering Net Zero by 2050, the investment in electricity infrastructure over the next 10 years will be higher than any period since the construction of the national grid in the 1960s. We are also seeing growth in our Rail and Nuclear markets. Painter Brothers are ideally placed as a trusted and expert partner, so why not come and join us for the journey?

What you'll be doing

• Provide functional support to the business in advising on upcoming pipeline development, competitive landscape and market knowledge.
• Maximize opportunities by utilising Balfour Beatty Group companies and cross-selling.
• Maintain strategic relationships with new and existing customers, identifying opportunities to add value, increase revenue and margin, and grow market share in structural steel fabrication.
• Establish a flexible pipeline with a high conversion rate in order to achieve growth objectives.
• Engage with operations teams to ensure works are planned to maximise utilisation and margin.
• Prepare high-quality internal and external presentations and present these personally and/or coach senior leadership to provide accurate and persuasive presentations.
• Prepare proposals that reflect the principles of high-value selling.
• Support business unit leaders in achieving 100% sales targets and improving operational efficiency.
• Influence operational business unit leaders in order to deliver high quality tenders and to maintain excellent customer relationships.

Who we're looking for

• Business improvement experience preferably within the steelwork manufacture or power transmission & distribution industries gained either through direct experience of delivery and / or direct experience of market expansion.
• Experience with Tier 1 contractors in the Power Transmission & Distribution Rail or Highway sectors.
• Experience in supporting business units in maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Experience in presenting to the customer and managing internal customers.
• Track record of growing businesses and targeted growth.
• Proven attention to detail and ability to follow defined business processes.
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate both verbally and in writing.

Why work for us

Our people are our biggest asset and we focus on recruiting, training and developing the people who can apply innovation to deliver the infrastructure of the future. We nurture these talents, offer a great benefits package in addition to a competitive base salary and continually invest in developing the skills of our people at every level. Some of our key benefits are:

• Company car
• Medical health cover
• BB Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Payment of an annual professional membership
• Enhanced maternity/paternity & family friendly policies
• Real career progression opportunities
• Discretionary annual salary reviews.
• Access to our referral scheme programme.

About us

Balfour Beattyis a leadingrailinfrastructure provider. We work at the heart of the UKs railway network designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railway that connect communities and underpin growth.

Our expertise covers design and manufacturing, civils, track, reactive maintenance, electrification, signalling, power systems and rail plant

We have a strong orderbook with and a positive pipeline of opportunities, and we put our customers, rail users, and our people at the heart of everything we do.

Diversity & Inclusion: At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/