Location
Edinburgh or Glasgow, Scotland

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Lead the Future of Nature Services across Scotland as a Regional Lead for WSP. This high-profile leadership role offers the opportunity to provide strategic direction to our growing ecology and environmental teams based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow. You will influence business growth, strengthen client relationships, develop talented teams, and help deliver some of the region's most important environmental and infrastructure projects. Combining technical excellence, commercial performance, and people leadership, you will create a thriving, collaborative, and high-performing business.

As Regional Lead, you will be responsible for leading multidisciplinary Nature Services teams across Scotland, ensuring outstanding project delivery, strong financial performance, and fostering an inclusive culture where people can do their best work. Working closely with the Service Line Director and senior leaders, you will help drive regional growth strategy and strengthen our position as a trusted partner to clients addressing complex environmental challenges.

Your key responsibilities will include leading and inspiring ecology and environmental teams, creating an inclusive and engaging culture, championing health, safety, wellbeing and flexible working, overseeing project delivery with a focus on quality and profitability, providing senior technical leadership and governance, building trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders, supporting business development and major bids, identifying market opportunities, and driving collaboration across teams and geographies to deliver an integrated all-Ireland service.

Experience
- Significant experience within ecology, environmental consultancy or a related natural sciences discipline.
- Proven ability to lead, develop and motivate high-performing teams.
- Strong commercial and operational management experience.
- Experience managing project delivery, utilisation, budgets and financial performance.
- Experience in business development, major bids and framework delivery.
- Ability to build long-lasting relationships with clients, regulators and stakeholders.

About you
- Established leader with excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Strategic thinker with a practical and delivery-focused approach.
- Inspires confidence and unites teams through growth and change.
- Encourages collaboration and knowledge sharing.
- Balances people, client and commercial priorities effectively.
- Demonstrates integrity, accountability and commitment to excellence.
- Passionate about developing future talent and creating an environment where people can succeed.

Qualifications
- Membership of a relevant professional body.
- Appropriate degree or postgraduate qualification in ecology, environmental science or related discipline.