Associate Director – Water
Join us at RPS, a Tetra Tech company, as part of the Clean Water Technical Team.
This role is responsible for overall management, direction and performance of our Analytics and Software teams, and for building strong client relationships.
Responsibilities
* Leadership and management of delivery teams.
* Ensuring that project delivery and commercial performance deadlines and targets are achieved.
* Development and maintenance of strong relationships with key client contacts.
* Development of project delivery strategies with associated training, recruitment and innovation plans.
* Identification and cultivation of innovative technical solutions aligned with client requirements.
* Consolidation and coordination of project delivery across the clean water team to drive efficiencies.
* Resource planning and management.
* Identification of escalated project risks and opportunities, together with risk and opportunity mitigation and management.
* Identification, implementation and support of growth opportunities across the UK.
Qualifications & Experience
* Extensive experience in the leadership and management of people, and in leading the delivery of major project/programme work in the water sector.
* Proven experience in bid delivery and winning client work.
* A commitment to a strong culture of health, safety and wellbeing.
* Commercial acumen and the ability to deliver commercially complex framework programmes successfully.
* Proven ability to build and mentor teams and drive collaborative behaviours.
* Proven ability to co‑ordinate and facilitate teams to deliver successful outcomes at project and programme level through a balance of strategic and tactical approaches.
* Experience preferable in analytical projects and/or software development.
* Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills.
* Skilled in collaborative negotiation.
Benefits
* Company car.
* Performance‑based bonus.
* Generous 7.5% employer pension contribution, rising to 10% after five years.
* Personal development plan and a transparent career pathway.
* Flexible, hybrid working environment.
Location: Nottingham, England, UK.
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