Senior Vice President, Transportation Director/Local Business Lead

This Opportunity

WSP is looking for a Senior Vice President Transportation Director/Local Business Lead (LBL) for Los Angeles County, based in Downtown Los Angeles. The candidate will play a key strategic leadership role in the California Region as we continue to strengthen and expand our Transportation practice. WSP is playing a critical role in the growth and development throughout the robust market in the state of California, specifically with key public agencies such as Caltrans, Metrolink/SCCRA, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro), County of Los Angeles, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles World Airports, Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, and other major municipal agencies in Los Angeles County.  The LBL role is a leader in leveraging cross collaboration with other WSP business lines such as Property and Buildings (P&B), Energy, Water, Federal, Advisory Services, and PMCM to bring value to our clients. 

The Local Area Business Leader is a recognized leader and face of WSP in Transportation. They are the local CEO of WSP within the bounds of our Delegation of Authority promoting collaboration and teamwork with a drive to grow our team. The Local Area Business Leader drives operational performance and growth while enabling WSP to be the preferred and trusted choice for clients, employees, and partners. They passionately lead their business service delivery in their local area through WSP’s strategy focused on four pillars of success: Clients, Expertise, People & Culture and Operational Excellence.  

The Local Area Business Leader is the external transportation face of WSP in Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles County, attending civic and industry events, conferences, and forums ranging from ACEC, WTS, Chamber of Commerce, and many more.
• 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

• Works with Business Line 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

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 regional, district leaders 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, Backlog, Inclusion & Dive