Job Description
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
THE TEAM
Our Sustainability Advisory Discipline delivers a range of valuable and insightful sustainability advisory services supporting our clients with expert advice to help manage their risks and design and implement strategic change through consultancy and programmes. The discipline has a very broad capability including climate change, corporate ESG, responsible production and consumption, policy and permitting, health and safety, carbon and net zero, lenders and investors ESG, environmental due diligence, microclimate, sustainable certification and buildings and industrial decarbonisation.
We have specialists to deliver integrated and multi-service advisory support to our clients and across almost all sectors, from energy, water, industry and local government through transport, commercial property, financiers and investment, through to aviation, we have a very broad experience and in-demand services that create genuine impact.
A Little More About Your Role…
As the Sustainable Certification Lead this is your opportunity to define, develop, lead and grow this service at WSP. You will be a member of the leadership team of the Built Environment business within the Sustainability Advisory. You will have specific responsibility for the growth and development of the Sustainable Certification services with a contribution to the growth of wider sustainability services in the built environment in collaboration with other team leads across the service line. You will possess accountability for strategic growth, client care, project delivery, technical excellence and operational delivery.
You’ll be an existing or aspiring business leader with an accomplished career to date within a multi-disciplinary client centric environment. The business has a diverse service offering so you will also need to have a growing breadth of understanding across other core discipline services and have a detailed knowledge of the Sustainable Certification services offered by WSP.
What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate…
- Leadership – experienced leader in their field with a positive internal and external market profile and someone that drives an innovative and trusted culture. Manages teams of significant size. Demonstrates the desire to constantly improve, motivate and encourage others, leads and implements change programmes, inspires colleagues and drives an innovative and supportive culture. Actively demonstrate leadership in safety, health and wellbeing, with a commitment to a zero-harm culture.
- Operational Performance – oversight of the operational performance for the Sustainable Certification team, including the combination of workload pipeline development and tracking, project UK and Global team resourcing. Responsibility for the performance of the team against agreed budgets and targets set at service line level including profitability. Experience of budgeting and profitability on projects to meet team net revenue and EBITDA targets.
- Strategic Leadership - Develop and implement a robust Sustainable Certification growth strategy in collaboration with other team leads to identify areas where offerings can be leveraged affecting market growth, or services and tools integrated to business advantage across the built environment.
- Technical skills – High level of experience and technical knowledge in their team with broad, developing knowledge of others. Expert knowledge of sustainable certification schemes such as BREEAM, DREAM, LEED, WELL, etc.
- Developing people – has a passion for developing the full potential of others with good coaching skills. Understands and respects diversity and difference using this for the advantage of both the individual and the business.
- Communication – Sharing knowledge, intelligence and inspiration. Demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively, to support and coach others, and to motivate through passion and empathy. Actively champions sharing knowledge, ideas and intelligence.
- Persuasive – Influential and persuasive internally and externally but encourages open dialogue and feedback.
- Innovation – challenges the status quo, encourages, research and the development of new techniques, is well informed about current developments in their own area of expertise, and is alert to opportunity in service and product.
- Team building – works collaboratively and consultatively, leads, develops and participates in a culture of team working. Has a track record of building high performing teams. Actively champion and role model diversity within the workplace and drive an inclusive environment where colleagues collaborate and thrive based on personal and collective contributions.
- Client relationship management and business development – ensure a client centered culture within the team and personally lead critical client and partner relationships, and support business development activities for the team through participation in internal and external market profile raising activities and functions, and through involvement with strategic clients.
- Extensive experience in successfully delivering Sustainable Certification and wider sustainability projects in the built or natural environment; and
- Educated to first or second degree standard, or similar post graduate qualification an advantage. Exceptional candidates without a degree will be considered, if they can demonstrate equivalent professional qualifications (e.g. Chartered Status);
- Full membership of a relevant professional body;
- Continued their professional development, through participation in relevant organisations, conferences, events and self-study (formal institutional CPD evidence is not required as this varies significantly between professions).
Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
With us, you can. Apply today.
About Us
We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 69,300 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
Work-life balance
At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community.
Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.
Inclusivity & Diversity
We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote a culture of inclusivity.
Health & Wellbeing
We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.
Med24 offers you and your family unlimited telephone access to an NHS doctor, available 24/7, with options for face-to-face video consultations. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.
Flex your time
To enhance work-life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day.
We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
Your development
We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.
#WeAreWSP
Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
