Location
Basingstoke

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

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.

The Planning discipline has 800+ consultants and engineers across the UK. Development accounts for 300 of this number located in 15 offices within the UK. Specifically supporting the Development part, you will play a key role in the growth aspirations for Basingstoke and Southwest to South and Southeast region.

This senior position will be very much centred on client facing activities, technical leadership and business growth, rather than day-to-day operational management and will play an integral part in supporting the initiative to diversify our team, both in staff numbers and revenue.

You will be:
- Providing strategic direction and highly visible leadership
- Exhibiting and demonstrating behaviours and attitudes in accordance with WSP core values
- Working in partnership with other colleagues to ensure coordination across the Development discipline and sharing of market intelligence, best practice and innovation
- Engaging with the Technical Leadership Group (TLG) to promote technical innovation, best practice and technological advancements for infrastructure development for major projects
- Liaising with the Regional Director and local Office Place Lead in setting and agreeing appropriate local team structures, shapes and skills sets
- Driving business development by being embedded within local networks of decision makers and establishing lasting relationships
- Winning work from key accounts and aligning the business to secure major opportunities and an increasing order book
- Leading and supporting bids by contributing, reviewing and authorising submissions and by demonstrating added value both commercially and technically
- Acting as Project Manager or Director for major projects and strategically important commissions
- Supporting all aspects associated with Health & Safety and Corporate Responsibility and ensuring the team complies with SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment and Quality)
- Mentoring selected colleagues on the Succession Planning Schedule and Emerging Talent schedule

Your Team
The Development Team is a well-established and high performing discipline within the Planning and Development business unit which includes over 800 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation and handover.

Our vision is to be recognised as the best Development team in the industry. We strive to achieve this through continuous improvement and a management structure comprising four pillars: Technical Excellence, People, Clients and Operational Excellence.

We help our clients to promote, implement and manage sustainable development, from pre-feasibility through to planning consent; establish plans and provision for how an area, its accessibility, and needs, will develop over time and guide sustainable future development; and develop multi-disciplinary design from concept through to detailed design and construction.

We work with public/private sector land promoters and house builders, developers, signature architects, Government, and local authorities.

Some of the multi-disciplinary services we provide that you will help deliver include:
- Civil engineering, highways design and earthworks strategies
- Utilities, energy planning and coordination
- Drainage, flood risk and SuDS
- Site appraisal, due diligence, and strategic planning advice

Experience
- Demonstrable track record in identifying and delivering new business opportunities
- Broad range of project experience within civil design for developments and multi-disciplinary projects
- Expert stakeholder management and team leadership skills
- Proven ability to lead and implement change programmes, motivate and encourage others
- Experience acting as a catalyst for change and driving an innovative and supportive culture
- Strong presentation skills with ability to lead workshops, training sessions and one-to-one learning
- Influential and persuasive with excellent communication skills internally and externally
- Ability to establish, build and sustain professional relationships with relevant groups
- Logical reasoning and problem-solving skills, proactive in responding to challenges

About you
- Forward thinking with the ability to visualise and plan for the longer term
- Driven to exceed client expectations
- Actively champions sharing knowledge, ideas and intelligence
- Demonstrates behaviours and attitudes aligned with WSP core values

Qualifications
- Degree level qualification in civil engineering
- Chartered status or working towards chartership

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.