Innovation Development Director - Mid-Atlantic Region

Purpose of the Role

The regional innovation director will serve as the regional innovation leader for the Mid‑Atlantic region, responsible for defining how innovation creates value across the region and ensuring that innovation translates into measurable improvements in speed to market, delivery certainty, and competitive differentiation across all global practices (business units with specific market focus).

This role owns the regional innovation vision and roadmap and leads the regional innovation office, a focused team and engagement model that partners with global practices to rethink end‑to‑end project delivery, remove systemic friction, and deliver faster and more predictable results for clients.

Innovation in this role is not about experimentation for its own sake. It is about challenging assumptions, interpreting a rapidly changing technology landscape, and turning ideas into execution advantages that materially improve client outcomes, regional business performance, and long‑term competitiveness while maintaining a safety‑first culture.

Define and lead regional innovation that accelerates project delivery, improves certainty, and strengthens our competitive position while supporting regional growth, margin performance, and long‑term value creation.

• Speed to market and schedule predictability
• End‑to‑end delivery acceleration from early sell through commissioning
• Practical application of technology, data, and delivery models
• Competitive differentiation rooted in execution excellence

This role operates as a peer to global practice leadership, partnering closely to support delivery excellence while constructively challenging how work gets done.

The regional innovation director leads structured analysis of business processes, project life cycles, and customer engagement models to identify high impact opportunities for acceleration and risk reduction.

The role does not own day‑to‑day execution of individual improvement initiatives. Once priorities are defined and solution paths are selected, execution ownership transitions to global practices and designated innovation champions. The director remains engaged at a leadership level, monitoring progress, challenging assumptions, and holding teams accountable for measurable impact.

The regional innovation director establishes and leads the regional innovation office, which includes:

• The director
• Supporting analysts/staff as determined
• Embedded innovation champions within each global practice, designated by global practice leadership and approved by the innovation director to partner with the regional innovation office

The regional innovation office partners with global practices to:

• Assess business processes and project delivery life cycles
• Identify recurring bottlenecks, constraints, and delivery risk drivers
• Prioritize high value acceleration opportunities based on impact and return
• Enable global practices to execute improvements while maintaining leadership level oversight and challenge

Clients do not buy innovation. They buy speed, certainty, and confidence in delivery. The regional innovation director ensures we deliver all three by defining a clear innovation direction, focusing effort where it matters most, and holding the organization accountable for meaningful, measurable improvement. This role shapes how innovation works inside a project delivery firm and how it creates real value at scale.