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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