Business Center Practice Leader (Northwest)

Stantec; Portland (OR); Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Stantec seeks a Northwest Business Center Practice Leader to drive growth, leadership, and execution for our regional BC. You will oversee market growth, key client engagements, and pursuit strategies while ensuring high-quality delivery and client satisfaction.

Reporting to the Regional Growth Leader, you will steer revenue, market positioning, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, shaping the future of the BC in the Northwest.

Aufgaben

• Achieving Business Center sales goals and revenue targets.
• Developing and executing market growth strategies across the BC.
• Maintaining a deep understanding of market opportunities and trends.
• Winning new projects with key clients and expanding relationships.
• Developing and managing strategic client relationships across the BC.
• Assessing and pursuing new markets and clients for growth.
• Building Stantec’s external visibility and industry presence.
• Lead and participate in pursuits and campaigns for major BC opportunities.
• Drive client relationship strategy with Principals to improve satisfaction scores.
• Responsible for net revenue forecasts by period, quarter and year end.

Jobbeschreibung

Business Center Practice Leader (Northwest) Application Process

These opportunities are open in any of our US Mountain/Southwest office locations (OR, WA, ID, NV). Qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and submit:

• A current resume
  • ALetter of Interest (maximum two pages) addressing the following questions:
    • How will you unite Community Development and Transportation into a growth focusedOne Infrastructureteam?
    • What are your top three priorities for your newly integrated BC in FY2027?
    • What are the greatest opportunities in your geographic market, and how will you position the BC to succeed?

Your Opportunity

Whatever the distance, wherever the destination – our designs lead you there. Our “One Infrastructure” group provides comprehensive planning, design, and engineering services for all phases of roadway, bridge, transit & rail, airport, and ports & marine projects as well as civil engineering, land development engineering, landscape architecture and urban planning.

Reporting to the Regional Growth Leader (RGL), the Business Center Practice Leader (BCPL) is the “seller/doer” responsible for leading pursuits. Accountable for the top line, the BCPL leads the growth of the Business Centers and Stantec’s market position while supporting innovative design solutions with exceptional quality and execution that exceed client expectations.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Achieving Business Center sales goals
• Developing and executing market growth strategies
• Maintaining a deep understanding of market opportunities and trends
• Winning new projects with key clients
• Developing and managing strategic client relationships
• Assessing and pursuing new markets and clients
• Building Stantec’s external visibility and industry presence

Client Focus:

• Responsible for exceeding client expectations through strong account management across the BC and personally leading accounts for major clients in the BC.
• Achieve minimum client- and proposal-specific marketing and business development (M&BD) sales goals, including internal cross-selling initiatives, target 50% of time.
• Ensure a minimum of 4 client feedback surveys are conducted per year and issues are addressed through implementation and follow-through on action plans.
• Lead and participate in pursuits and campaigns for major BC opportunities.
• Drivestheclientrelationshipstrategy,workingwithPrincipalsandBCleaderstodrive strong results in the client satisfaction survey within the respective BC.
• Responsible for net revenue forecasts by period, quarter and year end.

Business Development and Collaboration:

• Actively contributes to winning strategies and involvement at a hands-on level in key pursuits as needed.
• Leads growth of the BC through leading the business development, key pursuits, and sales strategy.
• Responsible for developing and managing the marketing and business development (M&BD) plan for the BC including cross-selling.
• Increases visibility of Stantec by sharing our knowledge and innovation story through key client engagements to enhance our reputation and drive revenue.
• Establish an effective Go/No Go Review process with Principals and tracks compliance of Go/No Go Process.
• Partners with other BCPLs and leaders to drive collaboration on pursuits across geographies and business lines.
• Responsible for utilizing and ensuring the opportunity Pipeline is maintained and monitor to optimize business development plans and employee utilization rates.
• Develop and Maintain Stantec’s Integrated Practice in the BC. Which includes:
• The maintenance of a cohesive Stantec brand,
• Key client and Account development and maintenance,
• Market and community outreach and engagement.
• AccountabletoachieveorganicgrowthtargetsoftheBC.

Practice:

• Support the Regional Delivery Leader (RDL) with oversight of project delivery, QAQC, discipline excellence and technical quality, documents quality and best practices in the execution of work.
• Responsible for supporting and fostering design excellence in all disciplines present in BC to implement innovation, sustainable design principles and use of technology.
• Responsible for compliance with ISO-certified Integrated management System and Project management (PM) Frameworks.

Support Functions

Business and Financial Management:

• Support BCOL with the annual budget for the BC, outlining the vision, focus, and priorities for implementation and setting specific goals for business performance.
• Supports the BCOL in meeting established targets on net revenue, gross margin, SG&A, and operating income target in the BC.
• Partners with BCOL to develop and implement improvement plans for distressed business units and BCs.
• Supports achieving utilization rate and backlog targets and partners with BCOL to drive collaboration and work sharing across the practice.

Health and Safety:

• As a BC leader, the BCPL should drive the HSSE culture across the business center, including visible leadership, proactive engagement with teams, monitoring leading and lagging indicators, meeting leading indicator goals, and following up on BC Improvement Plans.

People Leadership:

• Support BCOL with developing, attracting, engaging and retaining top talent
• Partner with BCOL by conducting quarterly office visits and BC Wide meetings to communicate the vision, business strategy and progress against applicable action plans.
• Support the BCOL with managing performance and compensation in accordance with Stantec’scompensationphilosophywithintheBCthroughyearlyemployeeperformance review (YEPR), rate review, and STIP/bonus -allocation for the BC.
• Direct reports may include roles focused on M&BD.