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About the Role
Lead and inspire experts across Asia Pacific in Soils, Geochemistry, Toxicology & Risk. This role involves managing and growing a team of 40+ consultants, shaping the business in a high-demand sector, mentoring future leaders, and steering challenging environmental projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead people, achieve financial KPIs, grow client relationships and market share, drive technical excellence, and achieve business growth within their Practice Area and across the wider business.
- Lead the Practice Area with authenticity, purpose and vigour.
- Drive growth in line with market trends and opportunities, and actively manage resourcing requirements to facilitate growth.
- Consistently achieve KPIs across financial metrics, responding to stretch targets as necessary.
- Manage commercial risk through rigorous review of project work and proposals, ensuring adequate backlog and maintaining standards of excellence.
- Maintain and grow a high-performing practice using proven leadership skills.
- Work effectively across the Company, fostering collaboration across practices, promoting knowledge sharing regionally and globally.
- Ensure the portfolio of projects within the Practice Area is healthy, with a net positive position, and that high risks are appropriately managed.
- Maintain a client focus, engaging frequently with clients to drive brand awareness, business development, and market share advancement.
- Stay up-to-date with specialist area trends and best practice, participating in technical and/or professional associations.
- Promote and use consistent globally aligned systems, practices, and processes.
Requirements
- 12-15+ years of experience, including experience within a consultancy group.
- Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science/Engineering or similar with relevant experience in one or more of soils, erosion, geochemistry, risk assessment, toxicology/eco-toxicology or geomorphology.
- Experience managing both projects and teams of consultants across different geographies.
- Proven experience in operations leadership within a technical consulting or professional services environment.
- Experience in developing practice-level business plans and achieving intended outcomes, particularly for developing teams in start-up or scale-up phases.
- Proven people management experience across a wide area to engage, develop and retain their team.
- Demonstrated experience in consistently achieving performance metrics and growing teams, revenue and margins.
- Excellent business development, client management and multi-disciplinary bid execution skills.
- Outstanding ability to understand client needs and oversee teams to meet those needs.
- Effective communication capabilities, particularly around conveying vision, strategic intent and ability to invigorate people.
- Competence in analytical assessments and reporting.
- Ability to travel interstate and internationally to engage with the team personally.
Skills
- Soils
- Geochemistry
- Toxicology
- Risk Assessment
- Geomorphology
- Environmental Science
- Environmental Engineering
- Leadership
- Business Development
- Client Management
- Bid Execution
- Analytical Assessments
- Reporting
- Communication
Location
- Asia Pacific
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 12-15+ years
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in Environmental Science/Engineering or similar
- Post Grad qualifications
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid work environment
- Novated leasing offers
- Supportive and generous parental leave scheme
About the Company
- SLR Consulting is an international environmental consultancy with a globally recognised reputation for providing high-quality tailored services.
- We have offices throughout the Asia Pacific, Europe, North, Central and South America and Africa regions, and are one of a very small number of leading international specialist environmental consultants.
- With 24 offices in the Asia Pacific region and 1200 + staff, SLR is on an exciting growth trajectory.