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GHD · 2 weeks ago

Business Group Leader - Water, US Central Region

Houston, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

15+ years exp

GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. They are seeking a Business Group Leader for their Water Group to manage performance, develop business strategies, and drive project delivery while enhancing client relationships and mentoring a talented team.

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Responsibilities

Lead, manage and grow our Water Group

Manage Business Group performance, people, and resources

Develop and achieve our business plan objectives and targets aligned with GHD’s Make It Real strategy

Establish and maintain effective relationships with diverse sector clients and across GHD

Build a strong business development and winning work culture, with effective positioning and pursuit of large and strategic opportunities and expanding GHD's presence and market share

Lead the technical and commercial direction on significant projects, identifying and creating business opportunities and effectively managing risks

Provide technical leadership and overall execution of major treatment projects while working cooperatively with multidisciplinary design teams in the preparation of design packages and participating in quality reviews

Develop and mentor a talented team of engineers and technical specialists

Drive a safety culture throughout the business and across our projects

Improvement/Innovation: Initiate, formulate, and implement new business practices within a specific discipline while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organization's change management program

Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions

Corporate Representation: Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees, in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts. Focus is on a specific smaller area of the organization, such as a sub-function or division. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings, seminars, and conferences

Financial Management and Control: Manage a significant portion of the organization's financial management and/or control processes

Leadership and Direction: Identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the business area or department; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals

Performance Management: Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives

Organizational Capability Building: Evaluate the capabilities of staff within the department to identify gaps and prioritize development activities. Implement the organization's formal development frameworks within the area of responsibility. Coach and mentor others to support the development of the organization's talent pool

Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting: Develop and implement a relationship management plan for strategic, complex potential accounts to build key relationships at local and national levels. Coordinate the engagement of own organization with the customer organization to ensure effective two-way flow of information and resolution of issues

Business Planning: Develop and propose annual business plans for a given area or department, ensuring alignment with strategy. Recommend financial and headcount budgets; propose business targets, for example, revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs); and schedule key activities/projects, ensuring integration with other elements of the organization

Brand Strategy and Effectiveness: Serve as ambassador for the essence of the brand and/or maintain a portfolio of brands, defining the measures used to determine brand effectiveness and using the results to inform future activities

Strategic Planning: Manage an element of the organization's strategic planning. This could involve being responsible for development or delivery or both

Strategy Formation and Implementation: Develop tactical plans for optimizing resources and assets being managed within a significant area or department

Corporate Strategy Shaping: Participate in the development of corporate strategy for a small local organization, applying functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process

Qualification

Water project managementBusiness developmentTechnical leadershipEngineering degreeP.E. designationStakeholder engagementStrategic planningInterpersonal communicationTeam mentoring

Required

Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Engineering, with a Master's Degree being an asset

P.E. designation (TX preferred)

Wide and deep experience providing expert competence (Over 10 years to 15 years)

Experience of planning, managing and organizing resources within short / medium timescales within the overall policy framework (Over 6 years to 10 years)

A proven track record of leading water/wastewater treatment projects, backed by technical experience in design, evaluation and upgrading of medium to large municipal and industrial water and wastewater treatment plants

A demonstrated ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams from concept through detailed design and construction is required

Experience of supervising and directing people and other resources to achieve specific end results within limited timeframes

15 years of experience in a professional water consulting environment, with notable project technical leadership and management experience

Strong business development skills and the ability to interact professionally with public and private sector clients

Outstanding interpersonal communication skills (both oral and written), with the ability to interact effectively with all levels of the organization in a collaborative fashion