Head of Discipline - Transformation & Digital Insights

Job Description

The GCC HoD will play a critical role in shaping and leading our transformation and digital insights capabilities. You will be responsible for leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams, building new service lines, developing team capability, embedding consistent ways of working, and ensuring high quality delivery as part of integrated UKGCC teams.

This is a growth-oriented role supporting our ambition to expand our GCC advisory footprint and deliver high value services that meet the evolving needs of UK clients and markets.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Management:
• Lead and manage a growing multi-disciplinary advisory team across Digital, Data, GIS and Transformation services.
• Support workforce planning, recruitment and onboarding to meet growth targets (building an additional c. 20+ FTEs over the next two years).
• Foster a high performing, integrated one team culture, encouraging open communication, trust, shared accountability, and collective success.
• Build and Mature Capabilities:
• Work with UK teams to define and implement emerging GCC capabilities, including Digital Advisory, Data Analytics, Change and Adoption Management and Transformation Management Office services to strengthen and grow the advisory offering.
• Build a strong understanding of UK market needs and priority sectors to ensure GCC capability development and recruitment aligns with priorities and demand.
• Provide regular updates and reports to clients on project status and milestones.
• Digital & Platform Leadership:
• Own and shape the GCC's digital engineering and platform strategy, with a strong focus on Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse), Azure-native services, and enterprise digital solutions.
• Provide senior leadership oversight on solution architecture, platform governance, security, scalability, and technical quality across digital initiatives.
• Balance low code / rapid development approaches with enterprise grade delivery standards, ensuring solutions are robust, maintainable, and scalable.
• Act as an informed senior counterpart to UK digital and technology leaders, able to challenge, shape and validate digital solution approaches.
• UK Integration & Ways of Working:
• Establish strong working relationships with UK Transformation and Digital leadership and teams.
• Embed standardised processes for deployment, quality assurance, communication and project handover.
• Support the development of a joint operating model, ensuring the GCC functions as an extension of the UK team.
• Enable consistent cross team knowledge sharing, learning, and visibility of work pipelines.
• Delivery Oversight & Quality Assurance:
• Act as a delivery leader across GCC workstreams, supporting planning, prioritisation and resourcing.
• Ensure high quality output, adherence to UK delivery standards, and operational excellence across projects through appropriate processes and capabilities.
• Monitor team utilisation, support workforce planning, and proactively identify opportunities for deployment.
• Ensure the team contributes effectively to bids, proposal materials, case studies and client pursuits.
• Capability Evolution & Skill Mix Balancing:
• Actively reshape the capability mix of the T&DI GCC to align with future demand, shifting from legacy heavy execution work towards digital engineering, data platforms, automation and change led transformation.
• Drive upskilling, redeployment or transition of existing capabilities (including GIS) towards higher value, insight led and platform integrated services.
• Make informed, sometimes difficult, decisions on capability relevance to ensure the team remains future ready and market aligned.
• Ensure the team contributes effectively to bids, proposal materials, case studies and client pursuits.
  
  

Success in this Role Means:

• Strong, trusted UKGCC relationships.
• High utilisation and predictable deployment.
• New capabilities built and embedded.
• High quality delivery aligned to UK standards.
• Clear, scalable operating model between UK and GCC.
• Growing, motivated advisory team.
• A demonstrable shift in capability mix towards digital, data and change led services.
• Tangible digital and data assets in active use across UK engagements.
• Reduced dependency on low value, repeatable execution work through automation and platforms.
• Proven senior leadership experience managing multidisciplinary advisory teams across transformation, digital, and analytics domains.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple advisory service lines or cost centres within a complex delivery environment.
• Strong stakeholder management, with experience engaging senior UK stakeholders.
  
  

Key Competencies / Skills:

• Proven experience in delivery governance, quality assurance, workforce planning, and utilisation management.
• Strong commercial awareness with demonstrated contribution to advisory bids, proposals, and pursuits.
• Leadershiplevel understanding of data, analytics, digital transformation, and insightled decision making.
• Familiarity with modern data and analytics platforms (preferably Azurebased ecosystems).
• Exposure to analytics tools and languages (e.g. SQL, Python), geospatial technologies and advanced visualisation is advantageous.
• Understanding of Agile and modern delivery practices.
• Demonstrated senior level understanding of enterprise digital platforms, including low code / no code ecosystems and cloud native architectures.
• Ability to lead and influence senior technologists and engineers without needing to be hands on, while still providing credible technical challenge.
• Experience operating at the intersection of digital delivery, data, and organisational change, rather than treating these as separate disciplines.
  
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience establishing or scaling a GCC / advisory centre supporting UK or global markets.
• Experience developing reusable advisory accelerators, analytics assets, and delivery playbooks.
• Relevant certifications such as Azure, Agile or Change Management.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Data/Analytics, Technology or a related field.
• Typically 15+ years of relevant professional experience with senior leadership responsibility.
• Willingness to work across time zones and undertake periodic UK travel as required.
  
  

BGV:

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (BGV) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process including documents uploaded is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner.
  
  

About Us


WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, Power & Energy, Resources and Industry sectors, as well as offering strategic advisory services. Our talented people around the globe engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

With approximately 4,000 talented people across 3 locations (Noida, Bengaluru & Mumbai offices) in India and more than 73,000 globally, in 550 offices across 40 countries, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

At WSP we draw on the diverse skills and capabilities of our employees globally to compete for the most exciting and complex projects across the world and bring the same level of expertise to our local communities. We are proud to be an international collective of innovative thinkers who work on the most complex problems. Unified under one strong brand, we use our local expertise, international reach and global scale to prepare our cities and environments for the future, connect communities and help societies thrive in built and natural ecosystems. True to our guiding principles, our business is built on four cornerstones: Our People, Our Clients, Our Operational Excellence and Our Expertise.

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We are

• Passionate people doing purposeful and sustainable work that helps shape our communities and the future.
• A collaborative team that thrives on challenges and unconventional thinking.
• A network of experts channeling our curiosity into creating solutions for complex issues.
  
  

Inspired by diversity, driven by inclusion, we work with passion and purpose.


Working with Us

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.

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With us, you can operate in a flexible, agile, yet structured work environment and follow a Hybrid Work Model.

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• Balance community, collaboration, opportunity, productivity, and efficiency.
  
  

Health, Safety and Wellbeing


Our people are our greatest asset, and we prioritize a safe work environment. Health, safety, and wellbeing are integral to our culture, with each of us accountable for fostering a safe workplace through our Making Health and Safety Personal initiative. Our Zero Harm Vision drives us to reduce risks through innovative solutions, earning recognition for our global health and safety practices with the prestigious RoSPA Health and Safety Awards for six consecutive years.

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Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of over 73,300 talented global professionals dedicated to making a positive impact. Together, we can make a difference in communities both near and far.

With us, you can.

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