Regional Director for Environmental Sustainability

beBee Careers is hiring a Regional Director for Environmental Sustainability in Mexico City, Mexico. This role involves leading ESG services across North and South America, client engagement at executive levels, managing a multi-disciplinary team, strategic planning, and ensuring commercial viability. Candidates should have a relevant degree, extensive experience in environmental services, and strong strategic, initiative, and client-oriented skills.
We are seeking a highly experienced and results-driven professional to lead our environmental services in North and South America.
Job Summary

As Regional Director, you will be responsible for growing our ESG business through new opportunities and cross-selling with other service areas within the company.
Main Responsibilities
• Develop and expand a continuous stream of new stand-alone ESG work, as well as cross-selling ESG work into ongoing proposals and projects.
• Client engagement at VP and CEO level with existing clients and the development of new client relationships for ESG and the broader business.
• Managing a multi-disciplinary team of professionals providing environment, ESIA / EIA / permitting, community, sustainability/corporate responsibility, climate change / carbon management consulting and project delivery services within the business globally and regionally.
• Assisting senior management in strategy planning and organizational design initiatives.
• Ensuring the development of budgets and plans which will deliver the organization's strategic goals.
• Developing and implementing plans to adapt and grow the existing operational systems, processes, and personnel in order to accommodate the rapid growth objectives of the business.
• Ensuring the commercial viability of the business at all times and acting in compliance with agreed profitability objectives.
• Providing project management and specialist advisory support to project teams working on mining, infrastructure, and energy projects.
• Managing the performance reporting requirements of the Environmental Services Group for the region.
Key Competencies
• Strategic Approach: Develops a strategic plan to realize the vision. Revises strategy in light of changing circumstances. Takes a long-term view of organizational success.
• Initiative: Proactive. Seizes opportunities and acts upon them immediately. Takes responsibility for own actions and addresses problems before asked.
• Influence: Articulates the key points of an argument persuasively. Negotiates skillfully and convinces others to own point of view. Directly and indirectly impacts the decisions/opinions of others.
• Results Orientation: Focusing strongly on achieving agreed upon outcomes and ensures that key objectives are met. Conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure.
• Customer/Client Orientation: Strives to provide customers/clients with personalized and efficient service. Anticipates customers'/clients' needs. Quickly follows up on customer/client contacts and complaints.
• Industry & Market Awareness: Seeks to anticipate and respond to industry and market changes/challenges by understanding key characteristics, issues, and the factors driving them.
• Team Skills: Helps to create a sense of team spirit and harmonious relations through cooperation and support. Balances personal goals with those of the team.
• Commercial Acumen: Applies appropriate commercial and financial principles. Appreciates the commercial impact of own work on the organization's total expenses and revenues.
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, environmental science, environmental management, or a related discipline.
• A postgraduate qualification in a related discipline and/or MBA desirable.
• A minimum of 15 years' experience in selling, managing, and delivering EIA, ESIA, and environmental permitting activities on major infrastructure, mining, or energy projects.
• A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated leadership and supervisory experience.
• Strong financial management and people management skills.
• An understanding of how to formulate and execute business strategies as well as effectively leading a team of people.
• Demonstrated experience working on major projects in the infrastructure, mining, or energy industries.
• In-depth knowledge of environmental legislation and requirements in Canada, USA, and/or South America.
• Willingness to travel as work requires.
• An ability to work in a multi-disciplinary and integrated team environment.
• Effective and open communication and presentation style and the ability to plan and deliver high-quality reports.
• An ability to be flexible, learn, and perform challenging tasks outside their area of skills and experience.