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Location

Noida | India

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Job description

Role Summary

WSP is looking for dynamic leader who can drive improvements in business processes and have versatile personality, passion and driving nature :

• Key point of contact for UK-based business, including direct liaison with Ecology & Arboriculture business’s directors
• Commercial management and reporting, workload forecasting and planning of resources for the team
• Supervising and directing local delivery to support projects and assisting in the professional and technical development of Ecology colleagues
• Providing operational and technical leadership in the coordination and successful delivery of our work delivered by ecology iCRC colleauges
• Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required

 

Responsibilities

Project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK colleagues including:

• Act as the ‘face’ of the India-based Ecology team
• Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment / compliance
• Project, programme and financial management
• Represents the interest of team which he/she leads
• Record of leadership of projects and teams, providing consultancy services at a high level to client.
• Have proven successful project management record of larger, multiple and/or more complex projects and tasks
• Possess excellent commercial skills and accountability and drives commercial excellence within their projects and teams
• Have proven track record of technical oversight and guidance of people, teams, proposals, and projects
• Proven track record in producing clear and well written bid documents/ reports and communicates professionally and concisely to clients and co-workers
• Ensures and maintains a high-quality standard of work from all team and project members through robust review and constructive and developmental feedback
• Understands the challenges and works collaboratively to find, and implement solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Promote WSP Vision and Values
• Actively promote the UK iCRC Charter within the team and that the staff deliver on the Charter promises
• Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the iCRC Ecology team and ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
• Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
• Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement, lessons learned exercises with appropriate changes implemented
• Develop / maintain excellent client relationships ensuring repeat business and client satisfaction, internally and externally
• Contribution to bids and marketing material
• Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement processes and achievement of performance KPIs

 

Client / External focus

• Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the teams’ performance of client satisfaction
• Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums
• Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge

 

People

• Inclusively lead people, clearly articulating the vision, defining responsibilities, delegating effectively and providing constructive feedback
• Inspire and motivate departmental staff towards technical progression
• Be self-motivated to take on a leadership role in project work with a clear focus on timeliness, quality and technical excellence.
• Managing people through change and develop succession plans
• Create and support innovation
• Deal with conflict appropriately
• Work across cultures (e.g. international and/or multi-disciplinary projects), embracing diverse points of view.

 

Business Focus

• Proactively influences Health and Safety (Safety by Design)
• Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensure agreed targets are met
• Be responsible for the quality of technical outputs to WSP standards including any specific UK client standards

 

• Identify appropriately qualified staff to deliver projects with regard to the constraints of project budgets
• Champion and mentor others in use of agreed systems and processes
• Explore ways to add value and improve personal and team performance
• Manage opportunities, risks and project changes / variations so that these deliver advantage to the business
• Ensure budget utilizations is met or exceeded
• Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded

 

Key Competencies / Qualities

Mandatory Skills

 

• Excellent communication, internal client handling, interpersonal skills and listening skills with the ability to influence and interact with people
• Technical manager with management acumen and strong leadership skills
• Excellent spoken and written English
• UK experience
• Open minded and intellectually agile
• A hard-working self-starter with initiative and ability to work within a team environment
• Understand own strengths and impact, adapting behaviour according to different situations and individuals
• Professional manner and able to work effectively under pressure
• Act ethically with fairness, honesty and integrity

 

Desired Skills

• Significant experience in a relevant field
• Membership of relevant professional institution
• Proven ability to apply innovation and advanced techniques to design and contract solutions

• Successful track record of delivery in the infrastructure development sector within the context of a professional services provider

 

Qualifications

• Educated to Bachelor / Master’s degree level in a relevant subject
• Membership of an appropriate professional body an advantage (e.g. CEnv; CGeog; ICE)
• 10-15 years’ experience.

Skills Required : Record of leadership of projects and teams, providing consultancy services at a high level to client. Have proven successful project management record of larger, multiple and/or more complex projects and tasks Possess excellent commercial skills and accountability and drives commercial excellence within their projects and teams
Experience : 8 to 14 Years

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