Growth Lead; Roads

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.

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.

A Little Bit More About Your Role. A hybrid role, the candidate will be given dedicated headspace to grow our Roads business in a new sector as well as doing client facing, billable work.

The candidate will be based locally within our London (Westferry Circus), Basingstoke or Cambridge offices.

• Being a champion of our health, safety, and well-being culture by leading by example.
• Spending time with clients and industry partners to build strong, trusting relationships and enhance WSP’s external market presence and profile with key clients and partners.
• Lead on business development activities to bring in new, sustainable opportunities for WSP.
• Develop a pipeline of opportunities within the dedicated sector.
• Coordinate with other business and sector/ client leaders to ensure alignment, share best practice and resources, and represent the Regional Business when pursuing multidisciplinary work.
• Deliver funding (sales) and revenue targets within the Region for the dedicated sector.
• Lead key accounts and client relationships as required for the sector.
• Participating in tender bids and business development opportunities as they arise.
• Agreeing fees and managing the commercial position on projects.
• Supporting and working with the Regional Director, Growth Director and wider Regional Leadership Team to deliver their goals for the region.
• Contribute to Regional Business Unit initiatives, best practice, and value propositions.
• Provide visible growth leadership to the wider team, helping to upskill and develop capabilities in growth, bidding, client and account management.
• Co-ordinate with relevant leaders to ensure the effective deployment of competent and experienced resources to bids and the mobilisation of projects.
• Leading on projects to ensure technical quality and timely delivery.

• Experience in a growth focussed role.
• Experience of working for a consultancy business across a specific sector.
• Experience of operating at management level in delivering services into the public and private sector.
• Ability to champion client-centric delivery excellence by embedding a strong understanding of client needs and consistently ensuring right-first time, high-quality outcomes.

• Strong communication skills, with excellent stakeholder management.
• Lead, inspire and motivate a team to support the achievement of business goals.
• Organisational skills to coordinate the delivery activities of a professional team.
• Clear understanding of the importance of robust business processes and systems and a strong commitment to quality.
• Strong influencing skills particularly amongst peers and other managers and leaders.
• Ability to work openly and collaboratively to maximise overall organisational benefit.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Technical expertise to manage and lead multi-disciplinary projects.
• Good client…