Team Manager (Transport Planning)

Do you have what it takes to transform society? Sweco is looking for a Team Manager to support and lead our Transport Planning team across Leeds and Manchester. This role could be based in either office and can be worked flexibly with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. You will lead the team and be accountable for people leadership, financial results, client outcomes, project quality and commercial awareness, alongside undertaking high level project activities aligned with your technical expertise.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for financial KPI’s within the team including billing ratios, average fees, and profit and loss.
• Collaborate with your team to mitigate negative movements in KPIs and provide feedback and context to the Department Manager.
• Take responsibility for people KPIs within the team including absence, staff turnover and employee survey outcomes and collaborate with other Team Managers to identify and share best practice and implement improvements.
• Ensure effective and consistent delivery of projects within the team using the project management framework.
• Embed a culture of work winning, project quality and commercial awareness, ensuring the team engages with regional and national campaigns and leaders to maximise work winning and bid opportunities.
• Collaborate with other Team Managers to create development opportunities, recruit and instil a culture of succession to ensure a pipeline of talent is grown within the Department.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key clients and partners through active client engagement and building strong relationships by ensuring excellent delivery and expert knowledge.

To Be Successful In This Role You’ll Possess

• Extensive experience in Transport Planning with a thorough understanding of delivery, work winning with public and/or private sector customers and evidence of managing client relationships.
• Experience of managing and developing teams in a project manager or line manager capacity.
• Effectively balancing workload delivery, resource planning, employee development and wellbeing.
• Strong leadership skills to enable you to be a proactive part of the Department management team working alongside and providing support to the wider team in the development of overall objectives.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to adapt your style to suit different audiences.
• Proven decision-making skills with the ability to influence strategic decision-making and make commercial decisions within defined parameters.
• Demonstrable experience of operating and influencing at a senior level.
• Chartered status with a professional body.

Employee Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working (Flexworks Policy)
• Competitive pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance (including family cover)
• Company car or car allowance
• Discretionary Annual Bonus Scheme
• Payment of two relevant professional subscriptions
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year).
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (wellbeing, mental health, financial and work advice).
• Employee discounts via Sweco Benefit Select (Faircare)
• Salary Sacrifice Electric Vehicle Scheme
• We plant a tree for all new starters!

About Us: Transforming society together, we are planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future. Sweco brings together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address urbanisation, harness digitalisation, and make societies more sustainable. We offer clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future. We offer flexible start and finish times, part time and hybrid working options so that you can flex your hours around your day to day needs.