Team Leader-Ecology

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