# Senior Director, Local Business Leadership

**Company**: WSP USA, Inc.
**Location**: Los Angeles, CA, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $218,900 - $367,200
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP USA, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director, Local Business Leadership for its California Planning Practice. The successful candidate will be a Senior Vice President in Transportation, Environmental, or Land Use Planning, leading the California-based planning team. The role involves organizing, planning, and growing planning services in California, acting as a client advisor, staff manager, and pursuit and project manager on California and regional projects.

**Your Impact**

- Lead a team of land use, transit/transportation, and environmental planners in California.

- Provide profit & loss leadership over projects, pursuits, and staff.

- Offer strategic leadership for the planning discipline, ensuring high-quality deliverables.

- Manage multi-disciplinary project teams across various phases of project execution.

- Lead larger-scale transportation planning projects, ensuring profitability and performance.

- Ensure compliance with Federal, State, and Local Agency laws and regulations.

- Support long-term strategy, growth, and pipeline development for transportation and environmental planning.

- Lead technical aspects of contract negotiation and presentations.

- Assist with business tactical action plans and ensure planning discipline certifications are developed and improved.

- Conduct needs analyses and client value surveys.

- Serve as a liaison to external entities, including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, clients, and subcontractors.

- Develop and inform proposal and project scopes, timelines, pricing, and budgetary metrics.

- Interpret and summarize data for sound planning and regulatory conclusions.

- Maintain and grow a client base for high-level Transportation Planning services.

- Manage and provide performance guidance to assigned staff.

- Remain current in the latest transportation, urban, and environmental planning subject matter.

- Collaborate with professionals to provide trusted advisor services and future-ready solutions.

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making.

**Who You Are** **Required Qualifications**

- A minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience in land use, transportation planning, environmental planning, or policy work.

- Experience leading projects and 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 strategies and manage high-quality deliverables.

- Experience with transit agencies, local municipalities, metropolitan planning organizations, and/or California 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 and experience with MicroStation and/or GIS programs is highly desirable.

- Excellent writing skills and ability to present ideas orally and in written form.

- Ability to work in the United States and possession of a valid driver’s license.

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Master’s Degree.

- Essential professional licensure/certification (e.g., AICP Certification).

**WSP Benefits**

- Comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation; paid parental leave; and paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings.

**Compensation**

- Expected Salary: $218,900 - $367,200

## Skills

### Required
- Transportation Planning
- Urban Planning
- Environmental Planning
- Project Management
- Microsoft Office
- MicroStation
- GIS

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree
- AICP Certification

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