Director, Life Sciences; Health and Life Sciences

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP is a leading specialist consultancy, transforming environments for clients in health and life sciences. Our target market in life sciences is focused on client organisations operating in the fields of discovery and development, pre-clinical research and clinical research and clinical development. In doing so we interface with organisations involved in pharma manufacture and also with the academic and research arms of universities, health organisations and systems.

WSP has one of the largest teams of life sciences programme and project managers in the UK, supporting the delivery of large, complex investment programmes through its work with DEFRA, UKRI, AstraZeneca and the Ellison Institute of Technology. Our focus is on collaboration between health, scientific research, the tertiary and private sectors, and the resultant translation into better health outcomes.

To support WSP’s continued growth within the Life Sciences sector, we are looking for an experienced Director to expand our Life Sciences real estate consultancy offer across England, building on WSP’s multidisciplinary capability and helping clients make robust, commercially informed decisions about their property portfolios.

This is a senior, market-facing role for someone who combines strong transactional and agency expertise with commercial leadership. You will be expected to originate opportunities, build profile in the life sciences real estate market and convert relationships into high-quality advisory, agency and transaction-led instructions. You will support occupiers, landlords, developers and investors with property advice that reflects market demand, operational need and long-term value.

With more than 30 offices across the UK, WSP offers a strong national platform for this role to be located across England, with access to regional markets, national client relationships and multidisciplinary support.

Our Property Advisory team forms part of WSP’s specialist Health and Life Sciences Advisory business (HLSA), where the Property team helps clients unlock value, manage risk and make informed property decisions. We advise on acquisitions, disposals, lettings, lease advisory, rent reviews, portfolio strategy, development appraisals, options analysis and property-led change.

We work at pace on targeted commissions and wider portfolio programmes, bringing together property, planning, cost management, programme delivery, sustainability, and technical expertise to support clients across the life sciences property lifecycle.

As Director, you will play a visible leadership role in shaping our life sciences growth strategy, generating pipeline, winning work and strengthening WSP’s profile with occupiers, landlords, developers, investors and professional partners across England. The role aligns to WSP Director-level expectations, with emphasis on strategic client impact, commercial growth, market positioning, portfolio leadership and people development.

• Lead the growth of WSP’s Life Sciences Property Advisory offer across England, identifying target clients, shaping propositions, developing routes to market and converting new opportunities.
• Provide market-facing transactional, agency and strategic property advice to life…