GHD
Job Overview
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 support and empower all of our people to make a positive impact when working hand in hand with our business to drive change. We’ll help you accelerate your career and empower you with the right technology and training as you bring ideas and projects to life.
Our Hybrid Work Model Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in‑office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.
Responsibilities
Corporate Social Responsibility/Integrity: Manage the provision of a strategic corporate social responsibility policy and services.
Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including top management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
Corporate Representation: Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees, in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts. Represent the organization in external relations with investors, clients, industry, partners, the public, and others. Focus is on a specific area of the organization, such as a function or department. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings, seminars, and conferences.
Budgeting: Take overall responsibility for setting and approving area budgets that achieve organizational strategy.
Leadership and Direction: Set and communicate the strategy, along with the broad actions needed to implement it, for achieving the organization’s mission, vision, and values within a function; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization’s business goals.
Performance Management: Manage and report on the performance of the function/business area; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
Organizational Capability Building: Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant function. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities. Embed personal development and the fulfillment of personal potential in the culture of the organization. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods.
Key Account Management: Take overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the organization’s account management strategy. May also personally manage a few relationships with the most strategic customers.
Business Planning: Lead the development of annual and longer‑term business plans for a significant function or small local business, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); and ensure integration of key activities or projects across the organization.
Policy Development and Implementation: Develop a comprehensive policy framework for a significant area of the business and oversee its implementation.
Negotiation: Hold overall responsibility for the design, development, and delivery of the organization’s strategy to manage communication with clients and business partners to negotiate and establish sales or buying deals, building positive relationships in the process. Be aware of, and take into account, the end goal of all parties, and actively participate in due diligence, including legal, financial, commercial, and business implications.
Strategy Formation and Implementation: Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility, such as a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets medium‑term business needs.
Corporate Strategy Shaping: Participate in the development of corporate strategy for a small local organization, applying functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process.
Functional Strategy Formation: Lead the development and implementation of strategy for a significant area of responsibility, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider corporate strategy.
Education
Master’s Degree or Equivalent Level
Experience
10-15 years of experience in an AEC or similar industry.
Salary Range Salary Range: $112,000-$167,000
About Us 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 make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.
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Our Hybrid Work Model Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in‑office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.
Responsibilities
Corporate Social Responsibility/Integrity: Manage the provision of a strategic corporate social responsibility policy and services.
Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including top management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
Corporate Representation: Represent the organization or institution in a variety of industry, institutional, and/or professional forums, boards, and committees, in order to promote the company or institution brand or efforts. Represent the organization in external relations with investors, clients, industry, partners, the public, and others. Focus is on a specific area of the organization, such as a function or department. May involve preparation of presentations and materials for professional partnering meetings, seminars, and conferences.
Budgeting: Take overall responsibility for setting and approving area budgets that achieve organizational strategy.
Leadership and Direction: Set and communicate the strategy, along with the broad actions needed to implement it, for achieving the organization’s mission, vision, and values within a function; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization’s business goals.
Performance Management: Manage and report on the performance of the function/business area; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
Organizational Capability Building: Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of a significant function. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities. Embed personal development and the fulfillment of personal potential in the culture of the organization. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods.
Key Account Management: Take overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the organization’s account management strategy. May also personally manage a few relationships with the most strategic customers.
Business Planning: Lead the development of annual and longer‑term business plans for a significant function or small local business, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); and ensure integration of key activities or projects across the organization.
Policy Development and Implementation: Develop a comprehensive policy framework for a significant area of the business and oversee its implementation.
Negotiation: Hold overall responsibility for the design, development, and delivery of the organization’s strategy to manage communication with clients and business partners to negotiate and establish sales or buying deals, building positive relationships in the process. Be aware of, and take into account, the end goal of all parties, and actively participate in due diligence, including legal, financial, commercial, and business implications.
Strategy Formation and Implementation: Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility, such as a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets medium‑term business needs.
Corporate Strategy Shaping: Participate in the development of corporate strategy for a small local organization, applying functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process.
Functional Strategy Formation: Lead the development and implementation of strategy for a significant area of responsibility, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider corporate strategy.
Education
Master’s Degree or Equivalent Level
Experience
10-15 years of experience in an AEC or similar industry.
Salary Range Salary Range: $112,000-$167,000
About Us 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 make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement As a diverse and inclusive organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, GHD will provide reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.
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