Practice Leader - Soils, Geochemistry, Toxicology & Risk

SLR Consulting Australia Pty Ltd; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

flexible hybrid work environment

novated leasing offers

supportive and generous parental leave

Job summary

SLR Consulting Australia Pty Ltd in Brisbane seeks a Practice Leader for Soils, Geochemistry, Toxicology & Risk to lead 40+ consultants across Asia Pacific. You will set strategy, mentor leaders, win work, and grow the practice while maintaining technical excellence and client focus.

You will manage a cross-disciplinary team across geochemistry, soils, erosion, toxicity and geomorphology, drive business development, and build high‑performing capabilities across regions with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years' experience in environmental consultancy.
• Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science/Engineering or similar.
• Post Grad qualifications will be held in high regard.
• Experience managing projects and teams across different geographies.
• Proven operations leadership within a technical consulting environment.
• Strong business development, client management and bid execution skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Practice Area with authenticity and vigour.
• Drive growth in line with market trends and opportunities.
• Manage resourcing to facilitate growth and maintain KPIs.
• Oversee risk, backlog and standards of excellence across projects.
• Foster collaboration across practices and promote knowledge sharing regionally.
• Engage with clients to drive brand awareness and market share.

Job description

Practice Leader – Soils, Geochemistry, Toxicology & Risk

About SLR & the role What if your next leadership role could combine world-class science, exceptional people, and genuine regional influence? As Practice Leader for Soils, Geochemistry, Toxicology & Risk, you'll lead and inspire experts across Asia Pacific. This team now includes our existing Toxicology & Risk, Geochemistry and the Soils & Erosion Practices with the recent addition of our Geomorphology Practice. With the recent acquisition of Hydrobiology also adding further strengths across this group. This has seen the Practice now reach 40+ consultants which you will be tasked with managing and growing this team further across Asia Pacific. As a newly formed grouping of some of the best in the business this provides a unique and exciting opportunity for the right person to scale up and shape the business, delivering into this high demand sector. From mentoring future leaders to steering some of the region's most challenging environmental projects, you'll have the platform, resources and reach to make a significant impact, while accelerating your own career in a highly visible and strategic position.

SLR Consulting is an international environmental consultancy with a globally recognised reputation for providing high-quality tailored services. With offices throughout the Asia Pacific, Europe, North, Central and South America and Africa regions, we are one of a very small number of leading international specialist environmental consultants. With 24 offices in the Asia Pacific region and 1200+ staff, SLR is on an exciting growth trajectory. We are flexible on location for the right person to deliver in this key role across the offices where our teams are already established and delivering exceptional work.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the Business Unit Director – Earth Sciences, The Practice Leader is responsible for leading people, achieving financial KPIs, growing client relationships and market share, driving technical excellence, and achieving business growth within their Practice Area, and across the wider business.
• Leading the Practice Area with authenticity, purpose and vigour
• Driving growth in line with market trends and opportunities, and actively manages resourcing requirements to facilitate growth
• Consistently achieving KPIs across the spectrum of financial metrics, responding to stretch targets as necessary
• Managing SLR's commercial risk through rigorous and informed review of project work and proposals, ensuring adequate backlog and maintaining standards of excellence
• Using your proven leadership skills to maintain and grow a high performing practice
• Leading by example by working effectively across the Company, fostering collaboration across practices, promoting knowledge sharing regionally and globally
• Ensuring the portfolio of projects with the Practice Area is healthy, with a net positive position, and that high risks are appropriately managed
• Maintaining a client focus always.
• Engaging frequently with clients in collaboration with other business leaders to drive brand awareness, business development, and market share advancement both regionally and globally.
• Keeping up to date with specialist area trends and best practice, participating in technical and/or professional associations
• Living and breathing the SLR way through the promotion and use of consistent globally aligned systems, practices and processes

Experience

• Our ideal candidate will have 12-15+ years' experience, including experience within a consultancy group, as well as:
• Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science/Engineering or similar with relevant experience in one or more of soils, erosion, geochemistry, risk assessment, toxicology/eco-toxicology or geomorphology.
• Post Grad qualifications will be held in high regard.
• Experience managing both projects, and teams of consultants across different geographies
• Proven experience in operations leadership within a technical consulting or professional services environment
• Experience in developing practice-level business plans and achieving intended outcomes, particularly for developing teams in start-up or scale up phases.
• Proven people management experience across a wide area to engage, develop and retain their team
• Demonstrated experience in consistently achieving performance metrics and growing teams, revenue and margins
• Excellent business development, client management and multi-disciplinary bid execution skills
• Outstanding ability to understand client needs and oversee teams to meet those needs
• Effective communication capabilities, particularly around conveying vision, strategic intent and ability to invigorate people to bring them on the journey
• Competence in analytical assessments and reporting
• The ability to travel interstate and international to engage with the team personally.

Our Benefits

• flexible hybrid work environment
• novated leasing offers
• supportive and generous parental leave scheme

We're Making Sustainability Happen.

We don't have all the answers to the complex sustainability challenges faced by humanity today. But we're working on it. We are a consultancy with 4,500+ employees, working on projects in over 125 countries around the world. When you join SLR, you'll work alongside some of the world's leading advisors and technicians on projects of global importance in the environmental space. We know sustainability starts from within. And no matter how good we are today, we can always do better. We continually work on our internal ethics to set the standard for organisations and reflect the advice we give to clients.