Buildings Sector Leader, Education

Buildings Sector Leader, Education - ( 230001BI )

**Description**

The Education sector is a collaborative, mission-driven community of designers, planners, and engineers. Crafting beautiful and innovative learning environments that support student success, wellness, sustainability, and the resilience of our communities is what drives us.

Our established team focuses on the K-12, higher education, and student housing markets, and works closely with the science and technology sector. Together, we strive to be a global leader in designing high performing educational environments that truly make a difference.

**Your Opportunity**

The Sector Leader for Education inspires and upholds the highest ambitions for our practice - to be the world’s leading integrated design firm. The Education SL is responsible and accountable for:

- Leading the sector’s vision, strategic goals, pursuits and project performance.
- Partnering across the practice to bring together pursuit and project teams.
- Contribute as a Buildings’ senior leader enhancing our practice through core responsibilities for strategic planning, market development, project execution, financial management, and talent retention and recruitment.

The Sector Leader will advance these responsibilities through engaging across the practice, its projects and pursuits, and the industry at large as a brand ambassador.

**Your Key Responsibilities**

**Business Development & Collaboration**:

- Sustain and grow our Education market presence, brand, and expertise.
- Develop and execute the sector’s vision, strategy and goals, as well as the annual sector plan and budget for implementation.
- Lead and manage the sector strategic pursuits through the Go / No-Go process and Top 20 pursuit program.
- Partner with practitioners across the practice to drive collaboration on pursuits across geographies and disciplines.
- Develop win strategies and successful project execution through being hands-on in key pursuits, client relationship development and project management.
- Collaborate with market leaders and sub-specialists, BC leaders and regional and national Sector Leader’s to develop and leverage expertise across our practice.

**Outreach**
- Speak at selected conferences, publish thought-leadership pieces and maintain active memberships in associations (such as board posts and committee memberships).
- Contribute to the thought leadership and brand of Stantec, by sharing our knowledge and innovation stories at key client engagements, industry events and across our professional networks.
- Partner with the Marketing team to develop sector campaigns for Stantec brand recognition through presentation/speaking opportunities, papers, public relations, awards, etc.
- Contribute to and support Stantec client satisfaction/survey program.
- Solicit and facilitate sharing of industry knowledge.
- Mentor and coach next generation thought leaders.

**Client & Project Focus**
- Lead and participate in major opportunities that positively transform our communities and inspire and challenge us as designers.
- Lead delivery of significant project pursuits.
- Achieve utilization target of 25%.
- Achieve client
- and proposal-specific marketing and business development sales goals, including internal cross-selling initiatives target of 50%.

**Core Buildings Leadership Responsibilities**

**People Leadership**
- Act as a highly regarded leader, thought partner, and a source of counsel and advice for the business.
- Identify emerging leaders across the organization for growth and advancement.
- Assist in the recruitment of emerging and top talent that has a strong knowledge of innovations and emerging design trends.
- Engage in and support resource management, career development, engagement, succession planning, coaching, mentoring, and leadership development across the discipline.
- Take a proactive role in furthering our presence and leading staff to participate in Professional Symposiums/ Publications/Webinars as well as partner with marketing and public relations for published articles and white papers to demonstrate excellence and thought leadership in targeted areas.

**Financial Management**
- Contribute to the annual business plan and budget, outlining the vision, focus, and priorities for implementation and setting specific goals for business and practice performance.
- Assist with developing the annual sector budget allocations, manage the allocation, and provide budget review.

**Enhance our Practice**
- Steward our community of Education sector practitioners to drive awareness of technical expertise, client relationships, the full breadth of education market services.
- Participate on the Buildings Leadership Team and actively collaborate with the BOUL, BLs, SLs, RBLs, and DLs in the improvement of project delivery and the strategies that can be employed to help differentiate us in the market on major pursuits.
- Position the Stantec Buildings practice platform as a