Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
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.

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a pivotal portfolio leadership role within our Water Advisory team. As Portfolio Associate Director, you will help shape the success of a growing and high impact portfolio, with oversight of opportunities and projects owned by Water Advisory, alongside visibility of work delivered by the team in partnership with other disciplines.

You will play a key role in connecting work winning, project delivery, and leadership, helping to bring greater clarity, consistency, and confidence to how opportunities are pursued and how projects are delivered. This role combines strategic oversight with practical leadership, motivated by helping teams deliver great outcomes for clients and communities.

Key responsibilities include strengthening opportunity triage and governance, supporting multidisciplinary bid teams, monitoring performance across live projects, and stepping in early where delivery or commercial risks emerge. You will also create a more transparent view of the portfolio through clear reporting, leadership updates, and high-quality case studies that demonstrate value across the business.

Alongside your portfolio responsibilities, you may provide project management or project director leadership on selected commissions, allowing you to stay close to delivery while influencing the wider direction and performance of the service line.

Your team
You will join our Water Advisory team within Sustainable Water Management and report directly to the Service Line Director. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to work closely with technical leads, Project Managers, Project Directors, Operations and Commercial teams, as well as wider leadership across the business.

It is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys building strong relationships, improving how things work and helping create the conditions for both project success and sustainable growth. While there are no immediate line management responsibilities, there is scope for this role to help shape and grow capability within a developing service line over time.

Why work with us?
WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important, whether that's for your family, friends, or yourself. Our hybrid working policy allows for the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home, as well as to collaborate in our contemporary offices across the UK.

We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.

We are committed to supporting our people and giving you the tools to improve your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme. Med24 gives you and your family unrestricted telephone access to an NHS doctor, available day or night, including face-to-face video consultations.

For improved work-life balance, WSP offers the WSP Hour, enabling you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part-time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

We appreciate that development and training are important to you, which is why we provide a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that's chartership, training or mentoring.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world. With us, you can. Apply today.

Experience
- Leading or overseeing a portfolio of opportunities and projects in consultancy, infrastructure or professional services.
- Strong track record in opportunity shaping, governance and bid support, including coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
- Monitoring project performance across delivery, budget, margin and commercial outcomes, with sound judgement to support early intervention where risks emerge.
- Building trusted relationships with technical, operational, commercial and leadership stakeholders.
- Providing project management or project director leadership where needed.
- Communicating clearly through briefings, updates and portfolio insights to support informed decision making.

About you
- Collaborative and inclusive leadership style.
- Focused on quality outcomes for clients, teams and the wider business.
- Enjoys building strong relationships and improving operational effectiveness.
- Motivated by helping teams deliver great outcomes for clients and communities.

Qualifications
While specific qualifications are not detailed, relevant professional experience in portfolio leadership within consultancy or infrastructure sectors is essential. Commitment to ongoing professional development is encouraged.