Regional Director - London & South East

Description

• Ensure accuracy and overview of actual/forecast revenue, project contribution, utilisation and profitability
• Provide strategic and operational support to the Operational Leadership Team, the Operations Director and to the Discipline overall.
• Support the Discipline by developing and embedding a client and project centred culture in the region. Represent the business internally and externally as appropriate.
• Monitor the interface with support services teams.
• Interface with HR on all general related staff matters.
• Manage recruitment needs to meet project and budget targets/demands.
• Responsibility and ensure compliance with SHEQ management systems.
• Manage the integration of UK wide best practice ie. BMS, SHEQ, and implement operational business improvements.
• Provide highly visible leadership and operational direction. Lead and engage others to develop an efficient delivery model balanced with the need to satisfy staff, client and commercial expectations.
• Define, lead and direct teams to implement best practice.
• Manage and support team leaders for extraordinary performance issues, including business reshaping in the region.
• Interface with GCC and promote its effective use within the region.
• Monitor working capital management. Support and administer action as appropriate.
• Manage and oversee all aspects associated with Quality/Health & Safety/Environment/Corporate within the region.
• Support bids by contributing to and reviewing submissions to ensure added value both commercially and technically.
• Ensure accuracy of indirect costs particularly controllable costs.
• Responsible for commercial and financial performance.
• Promote the Performance Review process and support career development; encourage training and learning in association with the TLG and HR.
• Support regional, national and international business development activities through participation in external market profile raising activities and functions.
• Actively involved in building and maintaining key client relationships with Key Account Managers at a Regional, UK and Discipline level.
• Responsible for the management and leadership of day to day operational matters associated with responsibility for P&L.
• Manage risk and opportunity through implementation of effective control and review measures.
• Ensure best practice relating to project reviews (technical and commercial).
• Develop and maintain an effective organisational structure in the region.
• Ensure effective implementation of commercial risk management controls, governance, reviews (bid, contract, project, business, etc), guidance and direction.
• Undertake prospect/fee bid reviews, overview and sign off in accordance with delegated authorities.
• Responsible for annual budget development and delivery.
• Demonstrates the desire to constantly improve, motivate and encourage others; leads and implements change programmes; inspires colleagues and drives an innovative and supportive culture. Acts as a catalyst for change.
• Provide co-ordination across the business to ensure sharing of best practice and innovation.
• Maintain an overview of workload, utilisations and associated resource requirements and work with regional managers and the resource manager as appropriate to ensure resources are fully utilised within technical capability.

Requirements

• Expert stakeholder management and related relationship and team management skills.
• Strong commercial and strategic capability with a demonstrable track record in having identified and subsequently delivered new business opportunities.
• Demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively and uses own knowledge to support and coach others as required. Actively champions sharing knowledge, ideas and intelligence. Strong presentation skills, able to lead and facilitate workshops, training sessions and one to one learning. Influential and persuasive internally and externally; encourages open dialogue and feedback within their Discipline.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with good leadership and management abilities; capable of communicating effectively with all parts of the business.
• Exhibit and demonstrate behaviours and attitudes in accordance with company values through effective team working with transparent and open communication.
• Possesses a broad range of project experience, both within discipline and multi-disciplinary.
• Able to establish, build, sustain and share strong, professional relationships with relevant internal and external groups. Driven to exceed client expectation.
• Preferably with direct knowledge of the technical project delivery activities.
• Experience of managing a P&L and/or having held substantive broad commercial roles with prior knowledge of working within a matrix managed organisation.
• Able to reason logically and apply a systematic process to finding solutions; proactive in responding to problems; able to apply sound logic in situations of ambiguity and use problem solving methodologies across a range of circumstances.
• Experience of working within large scale professional services firms that depend upon the successful management of complex multi-stakeholder relationships.
• Visible and exemplary Health, Safety and Wellbeing leadership, including the completion of at least one formal health and safety focussed leadership engagement activity per month.
• Forward thinking and capable of visualising and planning for the longer term. Designs, communicates, engages and drives the implementation of design and technical initiatives and strategies.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance