Senior Vice President, Local Business Leader

This Opportunity

WSP is looking for a Senior Vice President/Local Business Line Lead for our Northern California Transportation Business Line, based in our downtown San Francisco office. Serving as the Local Area Business Line Leader (LBL), the candidate will play a key strategic leadership role in the California Region as we continue to strengthen and expand our Transportation practice, promote collaboration and teamwork with a focus to build our local team, and drive solutions in support our clients, and communities.

The Local Area Business Line Leader will assist with leadership of the Northern California Transportation Business Line, assist in developing and implementing marketing strategies, lead business service delivery through WSP’s strategy focused on four pillars of success: Clients, Expertise, People & Culture and Operational Excellence, and assist in delivering services and solutions to bring value to our clients. The LBL will provide coordinated leadership with other local and national business line leaders and colleagues for the pursuit of transportation and infrastructure focused highway, bridge, roadway corridor, transit and rail, tolling and mobility solutions, and multi-modal services projects and programs; and aviation-based transportation, as well as support our clients and project opportunities for WSP’s market services. 

The Local Area Business Leader is the external face of WSP in Northern California and may bring Regional or National Leaders to support growing the business to meet annual tactical and long-term strategic objectives. Of equal significance, the Local Area Business Leader is empowered to oversee operational performance, mastering internal dynamics of the business to ensure that deployment of resources advances business objectives.  

At WSP, we are driven by inspiring the right people to be part of our Future Ready business objectives. Our devotion to teamwork has allowed us to build communities and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!

Your Impact

WSP’s vision is based on a passionate, thoughtful strategy that embraces the four pillars of our business: Clients, People & Culture, Operational Excellence, and Expertise:

Clients

• Drives performance of the transportation business and strategically grows our market share to fulfill our goal that WSP become the preferred, trusted advisor to our clients.
• Manages local client coordination and cross-selling efforts in coordination with Region, District, National Business Lines, and Pursuit Management.
• Integrates as the “face of the company” locally and across Northern California, attending civic and industry events, conferences, and forums ranging from Women Transportation Seminar (WTS), Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), Focus on the Futures, and others. 
• Brings an expanded view and integrated response to complex challenges by leveraging our full suite of offerings across all end markets.
• Utilizes our extended reach of technical and subject matter experts (SMEs) across regions, districts, offices and the globe to foster new and innovative client delivery.

People & Culture

• Collaborates with the Region Business Line Leader and other area leaders to attract the best industry talent by fostering a work environment that is collaborative, values inclusion and diversity and invites broad, creative thinking – crafting a more attractive place to work, grow and thrive.
• Emphasizes employee training and development to create a unique work experience.
• Inspires, motivates and promotes the best of WSP to our clients and communities to ensure strong employee engagement and morale.
• Supports programs such as Safety, Sustainability and Ethics & Compliance including Inclusion & Diversity and Guiding Principles.

Operational Excellence

• Optimizes the client and employee experience through regular reviews while embracing process improvement.
• Focuses on innovation and collaboration with a focus on maintaining and improving quality.
• Develops local growth, forecast and business development strategy in collaboration with District, Region and National Business Line Leaders.
• Resolves conflict and other internal/external issues that may arise in the office, amongst WSP’s client base, or on projects.
• Collaborates with the Region Business Line Leader and other area leaders to strategically drive the business, assess and suggest improvements for project performance, oversee overhead expenditures, and focus on key performance indicators (KPIs):  Sales, Funding, EBITDA, Staff Hiring and Retention, DSO, Utilization, and Backlog.
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