Senior Environmental Planning and Approvals Manager

3 days ago


Brisbane, Queensland, Australia beBeeEnvironmental Full time $100,000 - $150,000
Senior Environmental Planning and Approvals Manager

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled environmental planning and approvals professional to lead our team in securing major project approvals for clients in the renewable, mining, infrastructure, and industrial sectors.

The successful candidate will have a strong track record of delivering multimillion dollar sales results annually, including successfully winning large and strategic projects. They will be responsible for managing an approvals and planning team, leading environmental assessment projects, and building, growing, and managing a high-performance team.

  • Lead and manage an approvals and planning team to secure major project approvals for clients in the renewable (wind farms, solar, hydrogen etc), mining, infrastructure, and industrial space.
  • Lead environmental assessment projects and related approvals management in support of our clients' capital project delivery.
  • Build, grow, and manage a high-performance team, serving as a leader and mentor to consultants. Identify emerging talent and work with them to reach their full potential; ensure rising stars are nurtured, developed, and given new areas of responsibility.
  • Support the growth and development of our Capital Project Delivery service area and actively collaborate with colleagues across the nation and globe.
  • Drive innovation within the technical community to stay ahead of client needs and to differentiate us in the market.
  • Work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment to build our business, as well as to lead client and technical teams.
  • Meet business financial targets, overall project budget, and schedule, client satisfaction/expectations, and internal and contract requirements.

You will have the opportunity to partner with Account Directors to actively develop commercial strategies to pursue and win new business opportunities that result in significant revenue growth with target clients aligned with our global strategy.

  • Provide business value selling at the top levels of client organisations, raising the profile of our capabilities within key client organisations, to identify and shape clients' needs for our services.
  • Develop new client relationships and expand existing relationships by delivering strategic consulting advice, excellent value, and quality service.
  • Maintain a pulse on industry business cycles and prioritise sales efforts toward high-potential, top opportunities.

If you have the following qualifications, we want to hear from you:

  • Relevant tertiary qualifications;
  • 15+ years of experience in environmental planning and approvals, impact assessment, working within WA and Commonwealth legislative requirements.
  • High degree of technical competence in environmental planning and approvals, due diligence, land use planning, post approval management, and broad knowledge of impact assessment best practices, with a solid grasp of the key impact assessment and management issues within the renewables, infrastructure, and industrial sectors.
  • Solid experience building sustaining relationships with major clients.
  • Authorisation to work in Australia.
  • In-depth understanding of project approvals challenges, including existing relationships that can be leveraged into new business.
  • Business acumen to understand business risk and challenges, and recognise corporate opportunities.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, or disability status.



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