Business Group Leader

**There's no pledge more important than the one we make to look after our environment, and we're committed to helping you do exactly that.**

GHD is a leading Australian environmental assessment, planning and engineering consultancy committed to sustainability, with environmental and social performance central to delivering solutions that build resilient futures for our clients and communities.

Operating across the water, energy, transport, property/buildings, and environment markets, GHD has an integrated and purpose-driven approach to projects, aligning Future Energy, Future Water and Future Communities to deliver best outcomes for our clients and communities.

From the early phases of building a business case and understanding the feasibility of projects, we help clients identify environmental constraints and opportunities and prepare planning approval strategies and environmental impact statements to enable their projects to obtain the required approvals.

**Who are we looking for?**

Working with our Operations Manager, multi-disciplinary leadership group and broader internal network, this pivotal position is your opportunity to lead a passionate, technically renowned team within a global consultancy and will see you involved in:

- Lead, manage and grow our Environmental Assessment and Planning Group
- Manage Business Group performance, people, and resources.
- Develop and achieve our business plan objectives and targets aligned with GHD's Make It Real strategy.
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with government and private sector clients and across GHD.
- Build a strong business development and winning work culture, with effective positioning and pursuit of large and strategic opportunities and expanding GHD's presence and market share.
- Lead the technical and commercial direction on significant proposals and projects, identifying and creating business opportunities and effectively managing risks.
- Develop and mentor a talented team of scientists, engineers and planning practitioners.
- Drive a safety culture throughout the business and across our projects.

**What you will bring to the team**:

- Engaging and motivating people skills backed by strategic problem-solving capabilities.
- A relevant degree qualification in Science, Engineering, Planning or equivalent
- Commercially astute with strong project delivery experience, including providing support to Project Directors and Project Managers to deliver outstanding client experiences coupled with both technical and commercial performance on projects.
- Passionately innovative, with a drive to continuously evolve the way we work to deliver successful outcomes for our clients.
- High level market awareness and business development skills with a strong focus on client engagement and ideally a well-established network of relationships across potential clients.
- You are a hardworking, supportive and motivating leader able to get the best out of their team and comfortable with mentoring and technical supervisory responsibilities.
- Strong communication and people management skills.

Contact Chris Wong

GHD embraces hybrid work arrangements to create a work environment focused on well-being, flexibility and productivity where GHD people can thrive, this supports the diverse needs of our workforce while balancing the benefits of remote working with the value of face-to-face collaboration in the office.

We respectfully ask that no agency resumes be presented at this stage.

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**Come together and make a meaningful impact.**

We bring our people together to create something bigger and solve some of the world's most complex problems. Come and experience the power of commitment and see strategy and ideas come to life when you join GHD.

**Let's drive real change.**

**Our Pledge to You**
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That's why we pledge to empower all of our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.

That's the
**#PowerOfCommitment**

**Who we are**
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.

The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.