Job Description

Business Center Practice Leader, Environmental Services - ( 23000517 )

Description

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth. We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise. We\'re a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that\'s critical to our clients and the communities they support. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.

Your Opportunity

An exciting opportunity exists for a successful candidate to become a Business Center Practice Leader (BCPL) for Stantec\'s Ontario Environmental Services. The BCPL is responsible for leading the pursuit and delivery of excellent work to our clients. Accountable for the top line, the BCPL leads the growth of the Business Center and Stantec\'s market position while providing innovative design solutions with exceptional quality and execution that exceed client expectations.

The BCPL reports to the Regional Business Leader. It is the expectation that all leadership roles have a maximum term of 5-years, with the opportunity to reevaluate at the end of the term and for the purpose of succession and company growth. The BCPL works closely with other Business Center (BC) leaders to deliver professional services to clients, while championing safety, quality, innovation, and risk management processes.

Your Key Responsibilities

Client Focus:

Responsible for exceeding client expectations through strong account management across the BC and personally leading accounts for major clients in the BC.

Lead and participate in pursuits and campaigns for major BC opportunities.

Drives the client relationship strategy, working with senior practitioners and BC leaders to achieve drive strong results in the client satisfaction survey within the BC.

Business Development and Collaboration:

Actively contributes to win strategies and successful project execution and becomes involved at a hands-on level in key pursuits as needed.

Leads growth of the BC through developing and leading the business development, key pursuit and sales strategy. Holds senior practitioners accountable to expand our reach and client base, utilizing strong marketing, business development, sales account management plans.

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 and tracks compliance of Go/No Go Process.

Partners with other BCPLs and leaders to drive collaboration on pursuits across geographies and business lines.

Practice:

Champion Stantec\'s Safer Together culture and lead health and safety performance of the BC, including communication of health and safety information and the investigation of incidents.

Lead, challenge, and inspire technical staff (including coaching developing professionals) through substantive engagement and communication and foster an inclusive and diverse culture.

Attract key staff to Stantec\'s Environmental Service team to facilitate growth.

Drive technical excellence for projects and proposals within the BC, as well as participate in regular national technical leadership meetings, initiatives, and innovation strategies.

Administer risk management and quality assurance related to projects and opportunities, including review of contracts, and identifying risk triggers.

Promote innovation relevant to the BC\'s technical disciplines, including sponsoring Environmental Services strategic initiatives and tools (e.g., digital tool development, eDNA applications) and driving the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit program.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

Ability to balance project execution, business development, and BC leadership.

Entrepreneurial minded with a core understanding of business and the challenges of an engineering and environmental consulting services provider.

Strong technical background in environmental services.

Team player with experience building, leading, and managing a team.

Awareness of professional standards of practice (including PEO, PGO, CET, and PMP), ethics, and their applicability to Stantec\'s business, risk management, and quality frameworks.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills with an ability to clearly convey and distill complex technical information to a variety of audiences.

Education and Experience

Bachelor\'s degree in a related field with a minimum of 10 years of environmental services work, leadership, technical, financial management, business development and consulting experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.

Position will be hybrid, but primarily work in an office setting. Travel required to other Stantec office locations, the field and/or meetings with clients.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other\'s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Primary Location : Canada-Ontario-Waterloo

Other Locations : Canada-Ontario

Organization : BC-1609 EnvSvcs-CA Ontario West

Employee Status : Regular

Job Level : Manager

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Dec 15, 2023, 10:37:14 AM

Req ID: 23000517

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans

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