National Program Leader

**WSP **is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 55,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 9,800+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

The excellence we bring to our work and to our workplace has been recognized far and wide. We are among the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies two years in a row, one of the Top 100 Sustainable Companies in the World (and among the Top 10 in Canada), and we earned Platinum Elite Recognition through our participation in more than half of Canada's Top 100 Infrastructure Projects.

At **WSP**:

- We value our people and our reputation
- We are locally dedicated with international scale
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo
- We foster collaboration in everything we do
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

**MONTREAL, CALGARY, TORONTO, QUEBEC CITY OR VANCOUVER**:
**The Opportunity**:
With Future Ready we see the future more clearly and integrate this future into all the advice and designs we give to our clients. And we consider future trends in our day to day operations.

The Future Ready country leader will steward and update the national Future Ready program by engaging, consulting and collaborating with internal lines of business to deliver a world class national programme that sets WSP apart - attracting and retaining great people, helping us win more work and placing our business at the heart of creating Future Ready societies.

**Why WSP?**:

- We value and are committed to upholding a culture of **Inclusion **and **Belonging**:

- Our **Flexible Work Policy** - we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
- Our **Hybrid Work Policy**:

- a combination of in-person and remote working, enables us to purposefully think of how we work, who we need to work with, and where the work should be done.
- A **Canadian **success story - we're **proud **to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
- **Enhance **the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
- **Outstanding** career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to **your **ideas and trying **new **things.
- A phenomenal **collaborative **culture and a workforce filled with genuinely **good people** who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

**We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.**

**#WeAre**WSP**

**A day in the life**:

- Future Ready program design, documentation, deployment planning, budgeting, organizational alignment and communication. Ongoing evaluation, refinement and evolution based on regional and global needs and requirements.
- Educate and engage senior staff, thought leaders and middle management. Win support in selected sectors, embed FR in proposals and projects. Facilitate peer-to-peer networking (regional, global). Embed into culture, engage our people.
- Engage selected clients on FR via targeted meetings, communications and events. Leverage sector PM’s and BD to engage both existing and potential clients in FR. Develop/refine competitive differentiation by sector for program.
- Implement with marketing a multi-channel internal and external FR campaign based on the Global marketing program, linking with innovation and key successes. Includes events, white papers on key themes, social media and related digital content.
- Monitor and assess successes and failures with FR program. Modify documentation to reflect. Provide monthly reporting on adoption, client engagement, thought leadership content.
- Evaluate Future Ready trends and engage disciplines in research and development to ensure the Future Ready program and WSP is at the forefront of innovative thinking.
- Share best practice tools and techniques with other national Future Ready leaders.

**What you'll bring to WSP...**:

- Undergraduate degree or diploma in a relevant field;
- Capable of working on complex problems and exceptions without direct supervision;
- Ideally 8+ years of related experience.
- Excellent experience in relationship management across all levels and cross functional areas (operations, technology, executives, senior management), and with our clients