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WSP USA Vice President, IT Business Partner in New York, New York
Overview
The Regional IT Business Partner is a pivotal leadership role within the WSP’s global IT organization. The position carries the dual responsibility of overseeing Business Relationship Management activities for the region and related regional IT staff. The Business Partner acts as the key spokesperson for IT in the region and works to align technology solutions to business needs.
Leadership & decision-making responsibilities
Foster strong relationships with regional business stakeholders, including senior executives, and capture their evolving needs and strategic objectives.
Partner closely with business leaders to align IT initiatives with the region's business objectives, ensuring that IT contribute to the region's success.
Collaborate with service hub and enterprise IT stakeholders and to ensure fulfillment of business needs, and adoptions of global solutions and standards
Partner with the IT leadership to define strategic IT objectives and secure necessary financing for technology investments
Partner with the enterprise IT function to establish and maintain transparent financial reporting
Ensure efficient daily IT service delivery of the regional IT unit with high quality and good performance
Oversee the general direction of regional projects and plans
Ensure continuous identification and mitigation of risks, as well as the development of business continuity plans for critical IT services
Manage and develop the regional IT function's staff and performance
Provide thought leadership on emerging trends and best practices and leverage this knowledge to drive innovation and create value for the organization
Other Responsibilities
Ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures, and standards, and promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement in management
Foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork, encouraging open communication, knowledge-sharing, and cross-functional problem-solving to achieve common goals
Promote a safe and healthy work environment that prioritizes employee well-being and work-life balance
Develop and lead unit employees by monitoring individual performance, ensuring individual development plans, providing mentorship, and leading the recruitment process with appropriate onboarding
Adhere to company policies, including conducting systematic occupational health and safety work, reporting and taking prompt corrective action on risks, logging and reporting long term actions, and participating in department-wide talent management and succession planning
Ability to communicate to both operations-oriented employees and business executives, as well as employees across business regions and enterprise functions.
Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including internal customers, suppliers, and partners, to ensure effective collaboration and alignment.
Foster a culture of effective communication within the IT organization to engage and inform employees.
Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to promote the organization's use of technology and position it as an industry leader.
Standardize IT policies, procedures, and documentation across the organization
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in human resource management, or related discipline with major concentration in HR (or equivalent experience).
17+ years of relevant post education experience in enterprise-level HR talent sourcing, recruitment, talent acquisition discipline.
Experience in the AEC industry and a strong understanding of engineering and technical positions.
Developed analytical and organizational skills, with business acumen to bridge business and human resources.
Competent with technical writing, office automation, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), MS Office suite products (e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint), technology, spreadsheets, and HR tools.
Capable critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical HR knowledge to reach conclusions from data collation, verbal and written feedback, and analysis to arrive at a logical solution.
Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Ability to work schedules conducive to job-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical work week.
Occasional travel may be required depending on job-specific requirements.
WSP Benefits
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary (all locations): $162,000-376,200
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $185,000-330,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.