Role Summary

• Key point of contact for UK-based business, including direct liaison with Environmental Consent business’s directors
• Commercial management and reporting, workload forecasting and planning of resources for the team
• Supervising and directing local delivery to support projects across the Environmental Consents portfolio and assisting in the professional and technical development of Environmental colleagues
• Providing operational and technical leadership in the coordination and successful delivery of our work delivered by the full range of Environmental Consent service lines (including Environmental Planning, Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment), supporting infrastructure development and other projects in the UK and elsewhere
• Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required
• Incumbent to have responsibility for the leadership of local Environmental Consents teams ensuring team development, career progression and satisfaction is achieved

Responsibilities
Team leader Environmental Consents will lead the Consents team in the Earth & Environment discipline in UK i CRC. Key responsibilities for the position include leadership skill, team management, Project management. The person will

• Act as the face of the India-based Environmental Consent team
• Represent the interest of the team that he/she leads ,
• Have a track record of leadership of projects and teams, and 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 a proven track record of technical oversight and guidance of people, teams, proposals, and projects
• Have a 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 i CRC Charter within the team and that the staff deliver on the Charter promises
• Interface with multi-disciplinary project teams
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the i CRC consent 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
• Contribute 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