Associate Director (Roads)

Being a champion of our health, safety, and well-being culture by leading by example.

Drive operational excellence to achieve budget targets on utilisation.

Develop pipeline and ensure sufficient workload for your team. 

Plan the growth of the team and recruit to fill key roles and meet head count targets. 

Line manage and develop members of the team to achieve their goals and aspirations.

Lead on business development activities to bring in new, sustainable opportunities for WSP across a variety of sectors including defence, ports, aviation, digital, design & build, energy, healthcare, education and more. 

Supporting and working with the Regional Director, London & South East to deliver their goals for the cost centre.

Leading on projects to ensure technical quality and timely delivery. 

Provide visible leadership to your team to boost morale, wellbeing and workplace satisfaction. 

Managing projects to ensure coordination of multi-disciplinary inputs.

Managing resources effectively and efficiently to meet fluctuating work loads.

Working with Clients and design teams to deliver compliant designs on time and within budget meeting CDM, QA and technical review requirements.

Participating in tender bids and business development opportunities as they arise.

Developing relationships with other WSP teams to utilise additional resources required.

Agreeing fees and managing the commercial position on projects.

Experience of managing a Professional Services team in a consultancy business. 

Experience of operating at management level in delivering services into the public and private sector.

Lead, inspire and motivate the team to support the achievement of personal and 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 communication skills, with excellent stakeholder management.

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 handling and interpersonal skills are essential.