# Development Planning Technical Director/Director (Development)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Leeds, West Yorkshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Director/Director with a development transport planning background to support the Development team in Leeds and nationally. The successful candidate will have a focus on client-facing activities, business growth, market strategy, and technical leadership.

Key aspects of the role include:

- Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities

- Liaising with clients and stakeholders to build trusted relationships

- Providing technical advice to clients and supporting them through the planning and design process

- Exhibiting and demonstrating behaviours and attitudes in accordance with WSP's core values

- Working closely with colleagues to ensure coordination across the Development team

- Leading and supporting bids, including reviewing and authorising submissions

- Acting as Project Director for major projects

- Supporting all aspects associated with H&S / Corporate Responsibility

The ideal candidate will have:

- A degree level qualification in transport planning or civil engineering

- Chartered status

- Commercial and strategic capability with a demonstrable track record in having identified and subsequently delivered new business opportunities

- Excellent inter-personal skills with established leadership and management capabilities and experience

- Proven track record of work winning

- A broad range of relevant project experience

## Skills

### Required
- transport planning
- civil engineering
- leadership
- management
- commercial strategy

### Nice to have
- sector specialism

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