# Planning - Local Business Leader **Company**: WSP USA, Inc. **Location**: Raleigh, NC **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Consulting **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/98598?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1ff0054d-c0b ## Description WSP USA, Inc. is looking for a Local Business Leader for our Raleigh, North Carolina Planning Practice, as a Vice President in Transportation Planning for our North Carolina-based planning team. This position is expected to organise, plan, and grow our Advisory & Planning services in the state of North Carolina. You will be a client advisor, staff manager, and pursuit and project manager on North Carolina and regional projects and programs. This role involves working closely with planning, environmental, civil, and transit/rail staff across WSP to research, analyse, document, and present information related to various types of transportation projects across the region. ## Your Impact - Lead our North Carolina-based team of land use, transit/transportation, and environmental planners. - Provide profit & loss leadership over projects, pursuits, and staff, including managing and directing successful outcomes for key performance indicators. - Offer proactive and strategic leadership for the planning discipline and function, providing direction, expertise, and support to ensure technically proficient and high-quality planning deliverables are provided to our clients. - Contribute to and manage multi-disciplinary project teams in all phases of project execution and delivery. - Lead larger-scale, more complex transportation planning projects, ensuring contributors know their tasks and deadlines, preparing and overseeing project budgets, monitoring external events, tracking hours and expenses, and supervising subcontractors and employees. - Ensure compliance with applicable Federal, State, and Local Agency laws, policies, and regulatory requirements. - Support the long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development of transportation and environmental planning work for WSP in your assigned area. - Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation, presentations, and meetings. - Assist with preparing annual updates to business tactical action plans. - Develop and improve planning discipline certifications, accreditations, and value proposition. - Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys to align the planning discipline's function with business and project strategy. - Schedule planning discipline meetings and provide updates and recommendations. - Serve as a liaison to external entities, including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, clients, subcontractors, and industry-related groups. - Develop proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics. - Interpret and summarise data to minimise impacts to the community, population, local economy, and environment. - Maintain and grow a client base for providing Transportation Planning services. - Manage and provide performance guidance and leadership to assigned staff. - Remain current in the latest transportation, urban, and environmental planning subject matter, practices, regulations, and techniques. - Collaborate with professionals from various disciplines to provide 'trusted advisor' services and future-ready solutions for clients. - Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct. ## Who You Are ### Required Qualifications - A minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in land use, transportation planning, environmental planning, or policy work. - Experience working on and leading projects similar to those described, overseeing the work of others or managing staff. - A Bachelor's degree in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, Civil Engineering, Public Policy, or a related field. - Ability to develop business and technical strategy with others and manage high-quality technical and professional deliverables. - Experience with state DOTs, local municipalities, metropolitan planning organisations, and North Carolina regulatory agencies. - Project administration and management experience in the transportation sector. - Strong communication skills, high energy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude. - Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. - Ability to effectively present and communicate ideas orally and in written form. - Valid driver's license and ability to work in the United States. - Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and adhering to WSP's health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies. ### Preferred Qualifications - Master's Degree. - Essential professional licensure/certification (e.g., AICP Certification). ## Skills ### Required - Transportation Planning - Urban Planning - Environmental Planning - Civil Engineering - Public Policy - Project Management - Microsoft Office - Communication - Leadership ### Nice to have - Master's Degree - AICP Certification --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/98598?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)