WSP is looking for a passionate and dynamic team leader for our Nature Services discipline in GCC India. The person would lead a diverse team of professionals and would have following responsibilities:
- Key point of contact for UK-based business, including direct liaison with Nature Services & Arboriculture business's directors
- Commercial management and reporting, workload forecasting and planning of resources for the team
- Supervising and directing local delivery to support projects and assisting in the professional and technical development of Nature Services colleagues
- Providing operational and technical leadership in the coordination and successful delivery of our work delivered by ecology iCRC colleauges
- Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required
Responsibilities
Project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK colleagues including:
- Act as the technical face of the India-based Ecology team
- Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment / compliance
- Project, programme and financial management
- Represents the interest of team which he/she leads
- Record of leadership of projects and teams, 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 proven track record of technical oversight and guidance of people, teams, proposals, and projects
- 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 GCC Charter within the team and that the staff deliver on the Charter promises
- Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
- Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the iCRC Ecology 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
- Contribution 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
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
