# Technical Director Land

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Greater Manchester
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Director Land to lead our Land business in the UK and Ireland. As a Technical Director, you will provide strategic leadership and technical direction on WSP Land projects, drive a high-performance culture within the team, and serve as a trusted technical advisor to both internal and external clients.

Responsibilities:

- Provide strategic leadership and technical direction on WSP Land projects

- Demonstrate excellent stakeholder engagement to ensure successful land identification, securing of land rights, and land acquisition

- Drive a high-performance culture within the team, fostering collaboration and a shared sense of purpose

- Serve as a trusted technical advisor to both internal and external clients

- Oversee the successful delivery of projects, ensuring they are completed on schedule, within budget, and to the highest technical and quality standards

- Lead business development initiatives for WSP Land in the Energy, Water, and Rail sectors

- Collaborate closely with other WSP disciplines to identify and capitalise on multidisciplinary and strategic growth opportunities

- Champion the profile and technical reputation of WSP Land across public forums, social media, and professional circles

- Lead the preparation and review of high-quality bids and tenders

- Implement succession planning and engage in targeted recruitment to maintain and enhance the technical capabilities of WSP Land

- Conduct high-level project and business reviews to support effective risk and opportunity management

- Champion our WSP culture of health, safety & wellbeing (HS&W)

- Ensure our adherence to Quality Assurance and development of our processes

- Ensure our adherence to Data Protection and development of our processes

Requirements:

- Proven leadership in overseeing and directing the delivery of Land services

- Extensive experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams across diverse sectors and geographies

- Demonstrated success in mitigating land-related risks for clients and providing strategic advice on land matters

- Significant involvement in Public Inquiries and Oral Hearings

- Consistent track record in fostering repeat business and expanding service offerings with existing clients

- Proven ability to secure and develop business opportunities with new clients

- Substantial experience in authoring, managing, and approving bids and tenders at a senior level

- Expertise in resource strategy, including talent development, succession planning, and aligning team capability with business growth objectives

- Outstanding engagement skills with landowners and the public

- Exceptional communication, influencing, and negotiation skills

- Strong team leadership and collaborative working skills

- Ability to cultivate robust relationships with senior clients, key stakeholders, and executive management colleagues

- Resilience and composure under pressure

- Advanced business acumen and IT proficiency

- Commitment to quality assurance, data protection, and exemplary Health and Safety standards

- Degree qualified in Geography, Agriculture, Land and Estate Management or a closely related discipline

- Chartered status or membership of a recognised professional body is highly desirable

- Full, clean driving licence is essential

## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- land referencing
- stakeholder engagement
- project delivery
- business development
- team leadership
- communication
- influencing
- negotiation
- Geography
- Agriculture
- Land and Estate Management

### Nice to have
- Chartered status
- membership of a recognised professional body

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