Project Management Training Manager

About the role

We’re looking for a Project Management Training Manager to shape the future of project management across Balfour Beatty. In this highly impactful role, you’ll design and deliver a comprehensive capability framework that supports Project Managers at every stage of their career, from early talent through to senior leaders and aspiring Major Project Directors.
Working closely with senior stakeholders across the business, you’ll define what “great” looks like for project delivery capability, aligning development pathways to business priorities, professional standards and industry best practice. You’ll play a key role in strengthening our P3M community, ensuring our people are equipped to deliver complex projects with confidence, consistency and excellence.
The location for this role is UK flexible, with travel as required.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the design and delivery of a structured project management capability framework across all career stages


• Analyse business needs and translate capability gaps into targeted, scalable development solutions


• Deliver a blended learning approach, combining formal training, on\-the\-job development, coaching and peer learning


• Partner with senior leaders to define future skills, capability requirements and workforce priorities


• Align all development activity to recognised professional standards (e.g. APM) and explore accreditation opportunities


• Build and maintain clear career pathways and progression frameworks for Project Managers


• Act as a trusted advisor, influencing stakeholders to adopt impactful and proportionate learning solutions


• Use data and insight to measure effectiveness, track progress and demonstrate return on investment


• Manage programme governance, budgets and supplier relationships, ensuring effective delivery


• Foster strong stakeholder networks internally and externally, including industry bodies and communities of practice

• Proven experience in project management or a project delivery environment


• Background in designing and delivering learning or capability development programmes


• Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders in a complex, matrix organisation


• Skilled in learning design, facilitation and creating blended development solutions


• Data\-driven approach, with experience evaluating the impact of learning interventions


• Strong understanding of project management best practice and professional standards (APM preferred)


• Excellent communication, coaching and stakeholder engagement skills


• Ability to translate complex capability needs into practical, business\-focused solutions


• Experience managing programmes and priorities in a fast\-paced environment

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?

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…

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

Job Reference: BBUK19974

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