Practice Manager Building Services

Opis stanowiska

Your purpose:

Strategy

• Collaborate with senior leadership to align national discipline efforts and influence Building Design strategy.
• Promote high‑quality, multi‑disciplinary project delivery through technical best practice and process optimisation.

Technical Excellence

• Champion technical excellence and integrated multi‑discipline project delivery across regions.
• Ensure project performance, quality, and compliance with our Company Management System, while supporting Project Managers and Project Directors and leading delivery when needed.

Working Winning

• Lead regional and national work winning through client relationships and strategic bidding across markets.
• Drive service line transformation and support innovation through digital tools and sustainability‑focused change.

Workforce Planning

• Support workforce planning, skills development, and recruitment to meet headcount and diversity goals.
• Build agile teams using permanent staff, contingent resources, and global delivery centres aligned to workload.

People Leadership

• Build agile teams using permanent staff, contingent resources, and global delivery centres aligned to workload.
• Line manage local leaders, ensuring performance management and growth opportunities are effectively delivered.

What you can bring:

• Experience of leading a Building Services Engineering team to successfully win and deliver major buildings/infrastructure design projects.
• Strong and effective communicator and listener, always promoting inclusivity
• Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills, showing empathy and understanding in meeting business needs. Able to build a culture of trust through transparency, diplomacy and collaboration.
• Strong collaborative behaviours to interface and engage with other practices, market teams and wider stakeholders.
• Excellent technical reputation and ability to work as a technical authority, Project Director, Project Manager or design manager, to interface with clients ensuring the team delivers on, and is recognised for, technical excellence and design quality.
• Knowledge of our markets, ability to build on current client relationships and a desire to establish new client contacts.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of corporate operations and levers available to maximise performance.
• Open to new taking on new opportunities and stretch experiences that support career progression or personal growth.