About The Role
Come and join us on our growth journey!
Our 2025 mid-year results reflect a business thriving on strong performance, disciplined growth, and real strategic clarity. With a £19.5 billion order book and a £20 billion pipeline of future work, including landmark projects like Sizewell C, Lower Thames Crossing and national power transmission schemes, we’re entering a new era of opportunity and transformation.
We’re now seeking an
Executive Recruiter to join our high-performing Executive Search team, helping us attract the visionary leaders who will drive our continued success. The location of the role is
flexible with hybrid working arrangements and could be located from our key hubs in London, Manchester or the Midlands.
What you'll be doing
Responsibilities
As a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, you’ll play a pivotal role in identifying, engaging, and securing top-tier leadership talent across Balfour Beatty’s Strategic Business Units. Your responsibilities will include:
- End-to-End Executive Hiring: Manage full-cycle recruitment for senior leadership roles, ensuring alignment with succession planning and strategic goals
- Strategic Talent Mapping: Conduct exploratory market mapping and talent profiling to identify future-fit leaders, especially for ExCom -3 and niche ExCom -4 roles
- Stakeholder Engagement: Lead detailed briefing sessions with hiring managers to define role requirements, target companies, and success profiles
- Candidate Relationship Management: Build and nurture a diverse, engaged pool of candidates, maintaining long-term relationships and keeping them informed of opportunities
- Market Intelligence: Provide consultative insights on compensation trends, talent availability, and employer branding using internal and external data
- Interviewing & Assessment: Conduct interviews, participate in business panels, perform reference checks, and support offer negotiations
- Industry Networking: Leverage networks across infrastructure and adjacent sectors to identify best-in-class talent and share insights with the business
- Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Partner with the Recruitment Delivery team to share talent pipelines and support junior hiring needs
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data analytics and talent intelligence to drive sourcing strategies, assess market trends, and inform hiring decisions.
Who we're looking for
- Proven experience in executive search gained from an in-house, executive research, or search firm environment
- Expertise in leadership assessment, market mapping, and candidate sourcing
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
- Sector knowledge in engineering, construction, or infrastructure would be highly advantageous
- Intellectual curiosity and lateral thinker
- Commitment to finding best-in-class talent and providing a superb 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…
About Us
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:
[email protected] 
