Location
London, with travel across the UK as required.

Hours
Full Time - Flexible hours to meet client and business needs.

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
At WSP, you will have the opportunity to work on landmark projects, collaborate with leading experts, and contribute to meaningful outcomes. We are seeking a Deputy Business Development Director – Rail: Place and Regional Development to lead Rail's engagement with the evolving place and regional development agenda across the UK. This role focuses on building trusted relationships and market insight with mayoral strategic authorities, combined authorities, local government, and regional transport bodies to shape place-led rail investment and deliver sustainable growth.

Reporting to the Business Development Director – Rail, you will engage with emerging and established regional clients and partners, connecting Rail capability with WSP’s broader expertise in Local Government, Transport, Advisory, Planning, Environment, and Property. You will present a coordinated OneWSP proposition, working closely with Group Directors, client and account leads, Regional Growth Leads, Strategic Growth Directors, and Local Government Sector leadership.

Your responsibilities include leading market development, relationship building, and opportunity shaping, ensuring rail-focused propositions and opportunities are coordinated through existing governance and pipeline arrangements. This leadership role is highly visible within the Rail business and critical to advancing WSP's devolution and regional growth agenda.

Success in this role will come from building trusted relationships, connecting capabilities across the business, and helping colleagues identify, shape, and convert emerging opportunities into sustainable growth.

Experience
- Proven senior leadership track record within rail or wider transport infrastructure.
- Strong credibility across complex client and stakeholder environments.
- Clear understanding of UK devolution, local government, and regional transport, including mayoral strategic authorities and combined authorities.
- Knowledge of the UK rail market, including Great British Railways, Train Operators, and Network Rail.
- Demonstrable success in converting client relationships, market intelligence, and policy insight into tangible opportunities and sustainable growth.
- Experience developing relationships where clients, funders, sponsors, asset owners, operators, and delivery bodies may be different organisations.
- Track record of developing integrated, multidisciplinary propositions focused on client outcomes.
- Sound commercial judgement and understanding of public-sector business cases, funding, governance, procurement, and assurance routes.

About you
- Ability to connect rail investment with place-based outcomes such as economic growth, housing, regeneration, social value, and wider transport integration.
- Collaborative and inclusive leadership style.
- Strong presentation, facilitation, and influencing skills.
- Commitment to sharing knowledge, strengthening internal networks, and developing future talent.
- Ability to translate policy and market intelligence into practical account actions, qualified opportunities, and capture plans.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated, but relevant senior leadership experience and sector knowledge are essential.