Wastewater Area Practice Leader

The Area Practice Leader (APL) is responsible for driving the growth of their practice areas to advance the business unit's strategic goals.  In this role, you will also be responsible for understanding the unique trends in your area and using that knowledge to create technical differentiation from that of our competitors while serving as an important conduit between the National Practice Leaders, Specialty Leaders, and the practice staff in the Business Unit.

The Area Practice Leader role is designed to be coordinated with your other current role such as Project Manager, Client Service Manager, Portfolio Design Manager, or operations leader in the market.

 

Detailed Description:

 

Practice Leadership

• Be a visible leader within the industry to represent BC’s brand related to your practice and within your market.
• Inform development of technical practice vision and strategy (led by National Practice Leader) including market-specific trends, clients, needs, and opportunities for the area.
• Inform development of Business Unit technical focus working with the Area Manager, Local Leaders, Client Service Managers/Teams and practice members to identify emerging trends and opportunities in the Practice and geographic area.
• Develop connectivity and collaboration between affiliated staff in the area / region
• Collaborate with National Practice and Innovation Leaders to support connection of technical differentiators, innovative solutions and R&D for clients and advance goals set for your area or region by business and practice leadership.
• Partner with Specialty Leaders to ensure Subject Matter Specialists are developed and assigned to ensure quality delivery and appropriate governance.
• Inform technical workforce deployment strategically to support technical differentiation on projects.
• Engage as a visible leader in the Practice Portal connecting technical staff with resources, solutions, standards, and best practices.

 

Project Delivery Quality and Efficiency

• Ensure quality delivery of relevant technical project elements on strategic regional projects
• Support national sharing of resources to match top talent with strategic projects. Work with BU leaders, Practice Leaders, and other regional/area practice leaders to provide qualified resources in the practice (from across the country if necessary) in support of strategic projects and pursuits within and outside of your area.
• Inform Practice Leaders of project resource needs
• Coordinate with Practice and Specialty Leaders to ensure application of standards during project delivery. Support NSLs in directing appropriate resources to developing standards.

 

 Client Development and Sales

• Collaborate with Practice and BU Leaders to develop technical strategy and participate in annual business planning for the area. Drive implementation of the technical strategy including funnel development, capture of key pursuits, project staffing, and talent development 
• Coordinate with area/regional business development partners to drive expansion of the funnel with projects and pursuits associated with technical practice area.
• Participate in go/no-go decisions on local projects associated with the technical practice area.
• Act as sales leader for strategic pursuits or CSM for new strategic clients in the area as needed.
• Understand our competition in terms of strategic direction of their approach to the regional practice area, and their technical focus, staff, strengths, and weaknesses. Equip business units with winning technical strategies.
• Work to build capacity to deliver on business unit strategic goals for capturing and delivering work related to the specialty and area.

Knowledge and Technical Standards

• Support Practice and Specialty Leaders by identifying needs for standards including tools, content, and practice best practices based on client/project demand  
• Enable engagement of regional and local workforce to support application and development of standardsto enable local staff to gain knowledge
• Oversee implementation of standards on local projects 

 

Talent Development

• Mentor and identify opportunities for BU technical staff to grow experience and “advance” in the practice. Support the ability for regional talent to achieve new “badges” within the practice specialties.
• Identify practice area staffing needs and recruits. Drive recruiting efforts for technical talent within the region. Support enterprise recruiting as needed.

BC Brand and Industry Leadership

• Lead representation of the BC brand