Information Management - Regional Lead

Stantec’s Water business is at the forefront of delivering resilient, sustainable, and transformational infrastructure across the UK and Ireland. As our clients increasingly rely on data-driven assets and digital transformation, robust information management is fundamental to how we design, build, and optimize critical water programs.

We are currently seeking a Regional Lead to join our Information Management team. Reporting directly to the UK&I Information Management Lead, you will provide strategic leadership, functional management, and technical governance across regional clients and major delivery frameworks. You will bridge project delivery with business-wide digital strategy—setting standards, developing capability, and ensuring robust governance across information, data, and requirements engineering.

In this pivotal leadership position, you will drive operational governance and lead our regional information management community, utilizing the "plan, do, check, act" model to embed continuous improvement into project delivery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Governance & Standards: Co‑develop and embed UK&I Information Management Standard Operating Procedures (IM SOPs), leading regional auditing, quarterly reporting to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), and corrective action planning.
• Delivery & Resourcing: Collaborate with Client, Framework, and Project Managers to resource standard and strategic projects using the 'right-person-right-job' principle.
• Client & Bidding Strategy: Serve as a technical SME on strategic bids and client presentations, partnering with Client Service Directors and Market Area Leads to translate complex data landscapes into tailored client solutions.
• Client Information Landscapes & Digital Product Enablement: Own the regional approach to information systems, managing client platforms, data dependencies, and digital enablement needs to ensure requirements are traceable and aligned with project outcomes.
• Team Leadership & Capability Building: Provide line management, mentorship, and career planning for local Information Management teams. Drive recruitment, host regional IM forums, and upskill the community in business analysis, process mapping, requirements definition, and systems thinking.

Youwill shape the maturity and performance of information management across our Water sector operations. By establishing transparent data governance and robust IM SOPs, you will give our leadership team and clients total confidence in project delivery standards and external accreditations.

You will nurture an agile, high-performing IM community, fostering cross-project collaboration and continuous learning. Your work will directly unlock the power of digital tools, turning client information systems into scalable, well-governed digital assets that protect the water environment for generations to come.

You are a recognized leader in information management who thrives on driving digital standards, mentoring teams, and embedding governance within complex consultancy or engineering environments.

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Senior IM Leadership
  
  Experience:
  
  Demonstrated track record of leading information management, data governance, and requirements practices within a professional services or engineering consultancy framework.
• Governance & Audit Track Record: Hands‑on experience establishing IM standard operating procedures, leading formal assurance/audit cycles, and applying continuous improvement principles.
• People & Capability Development: Proven success in direct line management, talent acquisition, and coaching teams across capabilities like business analysis, process mapping, and systems thinking.
• Client & Digital Acumen: Strong…