Senior Technical Director – Property & Buildings

Senior Technical Director – Property & Buildings 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.

WSP is seeking an accomplished Senior Technical Director to join our Property & Buildings team in Riyadh.

This is a highly visible, client-facing appointment for an internationally experienced Property & Buildings professional with a strong technical background in architecture, building structures or building services.

While the successful candidate’s professional foundation will be in one of these three disciplines, their wider responsibility will extend across WSP’s full Property & Buildings offering. They will represent our combined building engineering design capabilities, ensuring that clients experience WSP as one coordinated and responsive business.

The successful candidate will provide senior oversight of selected projects and client relationships, maintain confidence in WSP’s services, anticipate and control project risk, and bring together the right capabilities from across Property & Buildings.

They will also lead selected prospects, take an active role in work winning and remain directly involved in project delivery within their own professional discipline.

For the right individual, this is an opportunity to combine client influence, multidisciplinary oversight and direct project leadership in one of the world’s most active and ambitious property markets, supported by WSP’s regional presence and global network of specialists.

Clients, prospects and work-winning

• Represent the full breadth of WSP’s Property & Buildings capabilities with assigned clients, including our core design disciplines and wider specialist and advisory services.
• Build trusted relationships with existing and prospective clients, including developers, asset owners, government entities, architects, and project managers.
• Act as a senior adviser and point of escalation, understanding the client’s wider priorities and ensuring WSP provides a coordinated response across all relevant services.
• Maintain and strengthen client confidence in WSP through clear communication, consistent engagement, and timely resolution of concerns.
• Lead selected prospects from early positioning and capture planning through proposal, client presentation, negotiation, and project mobilisation.
• Take an active role in work winning and shaping integrated solutions.
• Lead the development of compelling technical approaches, scopes, delivery strategies, and fee proposals.
• Represent WSP confidently at client meetings, industry events and professional forums, strengthening our profile and identifying new opportunities.

Property & Buildings oversight

• Provide senior oversight of Property & Buildings services involved in selected projects and priority client engagements.
• Bring together the relevant discipline and specialist leads to ensure that WSP’s services are coordinated, aligned and responsive to the client’s objectives.
• Maintain oversight of project health, including client confidence, quality, multidisciplinary coordination, scope, programme, resources, commercial performance and risk.
• Identify technical, contractual, commercial, delivery and relationship risks early and ensure appropriate mitigation or recovery actions are implemented.
• Establish clear accountability across disciplines while drawing on the appropriate technical authorities for each service.
• Ensure WSP communicates…