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About the Role
Lead and deliver social sustainability initiatives that create positive outcomes across social mobility, employment, education, skills development, community investment, volunteering, and social inclusion. Strengthen stakeholder relationships and deliver lasting benefits to the communities in which BAM works.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop high-performing teams through coaching, performance management, and regular development.
- Inspire, motivate, and engage others by building trust, accountability, collaboration, and strong communication.
- Demonstrate emotional intelligence and effective stakeholder management, influencing and negotiating to achieve shared goals.
- Drive continuous improvement, innovation, and effective decision-making to deliver business objectives.
- Plan and prioritise resources effectively to ensure timely delivery, excellent customer service, and individuals reach their full potential.
- Act as a subject matter expert in social sustainability and social value, promoting best practice and industry-leading approaches.
- Apply and communicate social value measurement frameworks and methodologies.
- Stay informed of emerging legislation, policy, research, and industry trends.
- Identify opportunities to maximise social impact while managing associated risks.
- Lead the development and delivery of social sustainability strategies, plans, and targets aligned with client requirements and National TOMs.
- Deliver initiatives across employment, skills, education, volunteering, community investment, and social inclusion.
- Build strong relationships across BAM and external stakeholders to support strategic objectives.
- Support regional and business-wide strategies, working groups, events, and communications activities.
- Ensure compliance with BAM policies, contractual obligations, and industry best practice.
- Develop, maintain, and monitor documentation, reporting processes, and assurance activities across projects.
- Develop and maintain stakeholder engagement and communication plans.
- Build and manage strategic partnerships that enhance social impact and support project delivery.
- Lead engagement initiatives with communities, disadvantaged groups, and underrepresented stakeholders.
- Represent BAM at internal and external forums, steering groups, and community events.
- Embed social sustainability requirements into procurement, contracts, and supply chain activities.
- Support suppliers and subcontractors to improve social value performance and maturity.
- Promote compliance with relevant legislation, including Modern Slavery and Human Rights requirements.
- Support business development activities through bid writing, tender submissions, case studies, local needs analysis, and client presentations.
- Contribute to post-tender interviews and early client engagement opportunities.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion across all activities in line with BAM and client strategies.
- Challenge non-inclusive behaviours and promote a culture of respect and belonging.
- Work collaboratively with clients and supply chain partners to advance shared D&I objectives.
- Analyse performance data and provide insights to support strategic decision-making.
- Measure, monitor, and report social value outcomes against project, client, and business targets.
- Identify trends, opportunities, and improvements, implementing lessons learned to maximise impact and performance.
Requirements
- Has a deep understanding of societal, industry and legislative drivers of social value.
- Demonstrates a track record of leading in a team environment, with management capabilities and experience.
- A high degree of energy and self-motivation.
- Previous experience in a similar role, applying social value and social sustainability principles preparing and delivering social value plans and leading performance measurement and reporting.
- Experienced in stakeholder management/community engagement and managing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders.
- Champions Diversity and Inclusion related to social value and stakeholder management.
- Knowledge and experience in National TOMs and expertise in using tools and techniques to assess social value outputs, impact and outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience of writing high scoring tender responses and supporting tender submissions.
- Excellent organisation / time management skills.
- Enthusiasm and ability to inspire, influence and engage a broad cross section of stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate BAM Values: sustainable, inclusive, reliable, ownership, collaborative.
- Be highly competent in MS Suite – especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- A willingness to travel regularly throughout the region, and UK&I as required.
- Ideally a full UK driving licence.
Skills
- Social Sustainability
- Social Value
- Stakeholder Management
- Community Engagement
- Diversity & Inclusion
- National TOMs
- Tender Writing
- MS Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Location
- Southeast of England
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Management
- Leadership
Education Level
- Degree level qualification or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- A wide range of family-friendly policies
- Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
- 8 % matched pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- 26 days holiday
- 2 wellbeing days
- 1 volunteering day
- Personal and professional development
About the Company
- Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM.
- We engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.
- We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued.
- We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
Equal Opportunity
- BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.