Description
WSP is seeking a Senior Technical Director to join our Property & Buildings team in Riyadh. This highly visible, client-facing appointment requires an internationally experienced Property & Buildings professional with a strong technical background in architecture, building structures, or building services.
The successful candidate will provide senior oversight of selected projects and client relationships, maintain confidence in WSP's services, anticipate and control project risk, and bring together the right capabilities from across Property & Buildings.
Responsibilities:
- Clients, prospects, and work-winning:
- Represent the full breadth of WSP's Property & Buildings capabilities with assigned clients.
- Build trusted relationships with existing and prospective clients.
- Act as a senior adviser and point of escalation for clients.
- Maintain and strengthen client confidence in WSP.
- Lead selected prospects from early positioning to project mobilisation.
- Take an active role in work winning and shaping integrated solutions.
- Property & Buildings oversight:
- Provide senior oversight of Property & Buildings services involved in selected projects.
- Bring together relevant discipline and specialist leads to ensure coordinated services.
- Maintain oversight of project health, including client confidence, quality, and risk.
- Identify technical, contractual, and commercial risks early.
- Direct project and technical delivery:
- Lead and deliver selected complex or major projects within the candidate's own professional discipline.
- Take responsibility for technical quality, coordination, scope, programme, resources, fee, and performance.
- Provide authoritative technical direction and lead key design reviews.
- People and capability:
- Provide people leadership for assigned employees and project teams.
- Encourage strong collaboration across Property & Buildings disciplines and specialist services.
- Support the development of Saudi national talent.
Qualifications:
- Western education in architecture, structural engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering.
- Approximately 20 years of relevant experience in the design and delivery of major or complex Property & Buildings projects.
- Strong understanding of multidisciplinary building design.
- A strong client-facing record and proven ability to develop senior client relationships.
- Experience within a leading international or multidisciplinary consultancy.
- Excellent professional English communication, presentation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
- GCC experience and an established regional client network would be advantageous.