Balfour Beatty reshapes leadership team around key growth markets
Balfour Beatty has announced a significant restructuring of its senior leadership team, creating new divisional chief executive roles designed to align the business more closely with major infrastructure growth markets including energy, transport, defence and regional infrastructure.
Philip Hoare (image: Balfour Beatty)
The changes form part of a wider reorganisation under Group Chief Executive Philip Hoare, who succeeded Leo Quinn as Group Chief Executive in September 2025, following a 30-year career with AtkinsRéalis.
The new structure brings together related business units to create larger, market-focused divisions intended to strengthen customer engagement, improve project delivery and drive operational efficiency across the group.
Under the restructuring, Balfour Beatty’s UK activities are organised within the following portfolios:
UK Defence, Power & Regional Infrastructure, led by Divisional CEO Nick Crossfield, combines UK regional civils, the Scottish construction business, UK buildings and the UK power transmission & Distribution business to create a more integrated offer across electricity networks, defence infrastructure and regional programmes.
UK Energy & Major Projects, led by Divisional CEO Phil Clifton, brings together the delivery of large, complex infrastructure with major energy programmes including Hinkley Point C and Net Zero Teesside, positioning the business for opportunities such as Small Modular Reactors and new reservoirs.
UK Transport brings together UK Rail, UK Highways and Balfour Beatty Living Places into a single, connected transport business portfolio. Recruitment for a Divisional CEO is underway.
Major alliances and joint ventures - including HS2, Sizewell C and Gammon - will continue under Divisional CEO Steve Tarr, maintaining focus on the delivery of complex programmes delivered alongside long-standing partners.
The Group is also strengthening its Group Executive Committee with two new roles - a Chief Strategy Officer and Group Business Services Director, to enhance strategic focus, productivity and value creation.
Philip Hoare, Group Chief Executive, said, “These changes sharpen our focus on our customers and our core growth markets. By bringing our capabilities together in this way, we are building a more connected, agile business - better placed to deliver critical infrastructure and consistent value for our customers, partners and shareholders.”