Business Line Digital Lead, Earth & Environment (US) bei WSP USA Inc.
WSP USA Inc. · New York, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Hybrid
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This Opportunity
WSP in the US is seeking a Business Line Digital Lead for our Earth & Environment market. This role can sit out of any of our primary Earth & Environment offices across the US. In this role, you will Provide visible digital leadership for the US Earth & Environment business line. This role drives consistent, high quality Digital Project Delivery, shapes and grows client facing digital services, and enables revenue and margin growth in partnership with E&E leadership and regional teams.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Governance
- Champion the Digital strategy within E&E and align Business Line plans to enterprise priorities and standards.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for digital strategy and services within E&E Business Line, coordinating with Corporate Digital, OneIT, and Marketing & Communications.
- Own the annual E&E Digital Business Plan (objectives, key results/OKRs, and an investment roadmap) to balance capability uplift and market growth.
- Identify and escalate delivery, commercial, and data governance risks; drive mitigation plans.
Business Unit Engagement & Value Proposition
- Engage with Business Line leadership team to refine the digital value proposition for each team, articulate differentiators, and align to client needs and market trends.
- Prioritize areas of opportunity and investment using clear criteria (client impact, ROI, scalability, risk) and maintain a transparent prioritization backlog.
- Support implementation of the digital strategy within each Business Unit, including operating model adjustments, enablement plans, and performance tracking.
- Identify areas of improvement in delivery of E&E services leveraging digital tools and collaborate on implementation.
Client Facing Activation
- Identify and track digital pipeline within CRM
- Partner with Business Development and Global Client Program leads to identify and prioritize target Clients for digital engagement, ensuring alignment with strategic growth objectives.
- Communicate effectively our current digital offerings internally and externally and how they can add value to our clients and projects.
- Lead and contribute to client facing digital workshops to identify pain points, map customer journeys, and conceptualize solution options (platforms, products, and services).
- Translate workshop outputs into proposals with clear value hypotheses, success metrics, delivery approach, and resourcing plans in partnership with Client Directors and Pursuit teams.
- Support pursuit teams with development of digital approach, methodology, and pricing.
- Build repeatable playbooks and assets (problem framing, discovery templates, demo environments) to scale workshops across Clients and markets.
Capability & People
- Establish and nurture an E&E digital community of practice; coach and mentor emerging digital leaders.
- Define a skills roadmap and upskilling plan (digital literacy; data; visualization; GIS/Location Intelligence; automation; BIM/digital twins) with Technical Excellence leaders.
- Drive a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
- Manage and develop a team of digital delivery professionals in the US and in India that collaborates throughout the business to achieve the above goals.
Tools & Technology
- Develop and steward an E&E tools strategy (e.g., Autodesk, Bentley, GIS/Location Intelligence, data & visualization stacks) for effective, consistent use and licensing efficiency.
- Collaborate with AI and platform leads on product/platform roadmaps, integration patterns, and data governance.
- Support commercial models for digital tools, platforms, and productized services (pricing, packaging, margin tracking).
Services & Growth
- Maintain visibility of E&E digital services and platforms; set KPIs and dashboards for adoption, NPS, utilization, revenue, and gross margin.
- Foster cross selling across Business Units and adjacent markets; share wins, case studies, and best practices.
- Partner with Marketing & Communications to amplify E&E digital thought leadership and client references.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Digital Technology, Engineering, Environmental Science, Design, or Management)
- 12+ years leading project delivery in complex, client facing environments.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; structured problem solving and data informed decision making.
- Comfortable with ambiguity; thrives in matrixed, fast-moving contexts with a commercial mindset.
- Experience with services and client base of the E&E business.
- Proven experience building and leading teams, including coaching across disciplines in a matrix organization.
- Track record of driving performance against measurable outcomes; removes barriers and fosters teamwork.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in a relevant field (Digital Technology, Engineering, Environmental Science, Design, or Management)
- Essential Professional Licensure/Certification.
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $147,500-272,580
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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Company
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
