E&E Regional Leader- Mid-Atlantic

Your Impact

• Drive growth and performance of E&E service-lines, working with senior leaders, technical practitioners, and regional business-line leaders to strategically grow market share.
• Work with National, Global, and Client Care Leads to extend WSP services for key clients; serve as a catalyst for client coordination and cross-selling efforts.
• Regularly meet with clients to get performance feedback, learn improvement opportunities, and understand future market drivers; function as an executive sponsor and ambassador for selected E&E key client relationships.
• Drive growth through effective market penetration and client development; build a culture of cross-selling relevant E&E and broader WSP services.
• Support teams to include the "full WSP" consultancy in pursuits.

People & Culture

• Work with regional and national business-line leadership to attract top industry talent by fostering a collaborative work environment that values inclusion, diversity, and broad creative thinking.
• Emphasize employee training, development, and mentoring to create a fulfilling work experience and career trajectory.
• Inspire, motivate, and promote WSP to clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct; adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies.
• Champion excellence in delivery of services and provide operational support and governance to ensure seamless delivery to clients.
• Build a "clients, projects, people" mindset and culture throughout teams.

Strategic Growth Vision & Direction

• In collaboration with regional leadership, national sector, and regional service and business-line leaders, set strategic direction, develop strategy plans, and lead execution of strategy through annual business plans.
• Personally lead and sponsor targeted growth initiatives within the region and relating to execution of national and global strategy, tied to specific cities/locations, key clients, or key services.

Expertise & Operational Excellence

• Accountable for financial performance of the E&E Mid-Atlantic business; develop and deliver on annual budget and strategic growth plans, driving improved financial performance and operational efficiencies.
• Hold overall responsibility for the performance of the Mid-Atlantic E&E client project portfolio and the successful partnering and growth of client relationships, in compliance with WSP Project Delivery metrics.
• Manage WSP's risk and exhibit strong governance by leading and supporting the evaluation of technical and commercial risks in assessing new client project opportunities and in delivery of services.
• Function as the executive lead/sponsor for all aspects of contract, commercial negotiations, and dispute resolution with clients.
• Maintain full understanding of technical expertise and resources within E&E and the Mid-Atlantic region to leverage broad technical experience and enhance current and new service offerings.
• Capitalize on extended reach of technical and subject matter experts across the region, nation, and globe to foster new and innovative client delivery.
• Work closely with leadership teams to ensure the full range of technical expertise is available and appropriately prioritized for projects and clients, drawing from national and Mid-Atlantic teams.
• Encourage, support, and promote the technical and professional development of all staff within WSP.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree in a Civil or Environmental related discipline, or similar.
• 15+ years of experience in environmental sciences and civil engineering practice, including leadership roles with progressively increasing operational responsibilities.
• Significant experience leading earth and environment related business across a broad range of end-markets and client types covering at least one or several of: site investigation and remediation, construction inspection and materials testing, site-civil engineering and geotechnical engineering, environmental planning and permitting, cultural and natural resources, environmental water related sciences.
• Deep experience in managing profit and loss performance and operations for complex earth and environment services businesses, with a history of driving topline growth and margin performance.
• Strong track record in leading organizations through change and creating synergistic growth from bringing full organizational capabilities to clients and end-markets.
• Strategic thinker with demonstrable success in developing and leading regional sector strategies that drive growth and support execution of overarching enterprise level strategy.
• Excellent work history of increasingly expanding leadership responsibilities, positive attitude, and track record in driving collaboration in multi-disciplinary businesses.
• Ability to interact well with public and private clients and excellent teamwork skills.
• Experience in participation and representing company interests in industry organizations.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills with ability to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with employees at all levels and external client stakeholders.
• Experience in leading large teams and organizational structures.
• Tactical lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail and prioritization of responsibilities in a pressure work environment.
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, regulators, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety, drug/alcohol, and harassment policies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint software.
• Strong ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to a variety of schedules and hours to meet business needs.
• Routine travel required as a function of project oversight and client and other stakeholder requirements, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic, but potentially throughout the U.S.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree and/or MBA would be an asset.
• Valid PE registration or equivalent for related discipline.

Pay

Expected salary range: $192,000 – $345,000. Actual compensation based on successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and geographic location.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• Retirement savings
• Paid sick leave
• Paid vacation (or other personal time)
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off for bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings