Transport Executive

This is an executive role reporting into the board managing a National team of 100+ Consultants.

My Client a leading International Engineering Consultancy are currently looking to recruit a Transport Executive to join their successful team in Brisbane. This is an executive role reporting into the board managing a National team of 100+ Consultants.
Key objectives to capitalise on growing market opportunities:
• Strengthening our voice and brand in the external market;
• Supporting the wider business go to market activity;
• Growing our market share across multiple clients;
• Enabling the growth of the team and expand regional connectivity; and
• Expanding our skills across permanent members of staff.
This is a client focussed role and it is expected that the candidate will have demonstrable capability to engage with both public and private sector clients and develop a good rapport with our internal clients with the aim of positioning the firm at the front end of major projects, offering a range of services through the whole of project lifecycle.
Technical:
• transportation infrastructure and service provision - to remove, cap, renew and tame transportation infrastructure in cities.
• Decarbonizing mobility and sustainability strategies - includes shifting transportation modes to more sustainable forms as well as looking at opportunities for electrification and decarbonization.
• Corridor mobility strategies – looking at technology, demand management, introduction of new, high capacity modes, and physical or operational changes that make overall transportation activity more efficient; and
• Human movement in the built environment - to better understanding how people move through places and spaces.
Business Development
• Develop, communicate, and gain commitment to the region’s Transport Planning strategy that reflects and enables the realisation of strategic aspirations.
• Grow our market share in the target market.
• Raise name and profile in the target market industry circles
• Identify, support and/or orchestrate the successful pursuit of prospects and projects which are critical to positioning in the market segment and/or need to be coordinated on a cross-cities/geographic basis (including participation in development of key bids).
• Develop external business networks and a market profile
• Identify and take responsibility for investments to develop our capability and market presence.
• Actively lead and contribute to pursuits and bids in CPD
Quality of Work
• Share and promote best practice throughout the region.
• Lead or contribute to projects in the market.
• Seek quality of work within the market area that fits with the aspirations of Arup
Operations
• Conduct or participate in project reviews.
• Develop effective working relationships with group leaders to ensure the market needs are understood and effectively reflected in the people/resourcing strategies.
• Establish and energise a local network of market focussed professionals and communicate with the regional and global business network.
• Seek commitment and engagement of Group and Discipline leaders in market activities.
• Contribute strategically to selected bids and projects - Project Director roles, reviews, post-mortems, client meetings, team meetings, etc.
• Source funding for market-focused investments and initiatives from global and local sources