Vice President, US & Latam National Lead Program Management

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking a US & Latam National Leader, for Program Management, a Senior Director level, who will be responsible for growth and delivery of program management services for the US Business while maintaining outstanding culture and employee engagement. This role combines external market and client leadership with internal practice stewardship-cross market collaboration, resource management, building capabilities, ensuring excellence in project delivery, and achieving strong financial performance while championing growth and innovation.

As a national leader, you will be a key member of our Senior Leadership Team who together help drive growth and business decisions across the company.

With a drive for rapid growth across the US in support of all our markets the Program Management Team supports our clients in successfully executing high-quality programs across markets including Transportation, Water, Buildings & Places, Power, Industrial, and more. We do this by partnering with clients, to engineer a better planet through reliable, quality infrastructure programs managed by innovative and competent professionals.

We enable our teams and clients to achieve measurable success through collaborative strategies, insightful analytics, robust resources, and disciplined execution - ensuring agility, mitigating risks, and delivering high-performing programs across all Atkins

Réalis markets.

Your role

Multi Market Growth and Leadership

* Work closely with Market Directors to support the development and deployment of market-leading strategies for maximum expansion and growth across priority geographies and sectors.

* Build on your existing industry relationships to develop new relationships with elected officials and staff executives with authority over capital programming, design, and construction.

* Ongoing market and client support and assessment to identify trends, opportunities and the competitive landscape.

* Proactive identification and development of solutions and innovation methodologies to bring to markets particularly working with the Technology and Innovation team.

* Build strong market awareness and brand visibility through client and industry interactions, professional organization involvement and thought leadership.

* Participate in high-profile, national business development events to gain sight to emerging large programs of more than $1 billion

* Work with our business units to sell new Program Management services to existing clients and to gain entry to new clients.

* Expand use of market-forecasting tools to monitor bond programs in core geographies and better position for new programs.

* Identify and support the acquisition and/or integration of related Multi-Market acquisition targets. Deliver value from any acquisitions in line with our agreed business case.

Resource Strategy & Capability Building

* Own resourcing strategy to support delivery of the US long-range plan including attract, retain, and deploy graduate through senior technical talent.

* Be responsible for matching supply and demand for resource management

* Oversee performance management, succession planning, training, and career paths; maintain robust skill and credential repositories; engage Fellows for on-the-job development.

* Balance in-country teams with Global Technical Center (GTC), and global resources; develop centers of excellence and drive efficiency, quality, and innovation.

* Create Program Management Training curriculum that teaches technical and personal skills of program managers

* Network and recruit individuals willing to travel, relocate, and work regularly on site at client

Project Delivery & Quality

* Collaborate with the Market leaders on workplans, schedules, budgets, and risk mitigation; enforce QA/QC, safety, and adherence to Atkins

Réalis procedures and policies.

* Advise on complex technical issues with regional/global SMEs; drive lessons learned and continuous improvement.

* Drive technology and innovation across each market ensuring solutions in one market are assessed and deployed in all.

* Continue work with the program management team to establish and strengthen an internal "center…