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Business Centre Practice Lead
@ Stantec
Edmonton, Alberta
Overview
Stantec is hiring a Business Centre Practice Leader to grow its Water practice across Alberta, with a focus on the Edmonton Region. The role is a seller-doer position that builds client relationships, captures pursuits, leads project delivery and manages a business development team. The posting requires a Professional Engineer or equivalent designation, a valid driver's licence and at least 15 years of water industry consulting experience.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Alberta water market strategy with a focus on the Edmonton Region
- Develop sales pipeline and achieve revenue targets
- Build client relationships and lead key accounts
- Lead significant project pursuits and delivery
- Lead, mentor and develop a business development team
Requirements summary:
- 15+ years consulting experience in the water industry
- Business development and account management success in Alberta water market
- Experience writing RFP, EOI and SOQ responses
- Water or wastewater project management or technical delivery experience
- Professional Engineer registration or eligibility in Alberta
- Valid driver's licence and satisfactory driving record
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-02
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Business development |
| Experience | 15+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | Professional Engineer (Alberta) |
| Driver’s licence | required |
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Stantec
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Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before. We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more. Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible. Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN. Recruitment fraud notice: All legitimate Stantec career opportunities are posted exclusively at www.stantec.jobs and candidate applications and employment offers are managed through our secure applicant tracking system. Stantec will only contact candidates using official email addresses ending in @stantec.com and does not send job offers as email attachments. Stantec never requests application fees and money transfers in the recruitment process or banking information via email. We also do not send payments for the purchase of office supplies or equipment. Any communication offering employment outside of our official recruitment process should be considered fraudulent.
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Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before. We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business Consulting and Services |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Specialties | consultingplanningarchitectureengineeringenvironmentalinterior designlandscapesurveyingand project management |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 586 |
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Reporting to the Regional Growth Leader (RGL), the Business Centre Practice Leader (BCPL) is a frontline business development leader accountable for growing Stantec’s Water practice and market position across Alberta with a focus on the Edmonton Region. As a seller-doer, you will develop and maintain strong relationships with priority municipal, regional, utility, private, and other public-sector clients; identify and capture strategic opportunities; and build a healthy pipeline that supports sustainable revenue and backlog growth.
Working collaboratively with Growth, Operations, and Management teams, you will shape and execute geographic growth strategies, connect clients with Stantec’s multidisciplinary expertise, and strengthen our position in the Alberta water market.
Primary Focus
- Marketing and Business Development Strategy and Performance
- Client and account management
- Leadership and collaboration across the Alberta Water community of practice
- Project delivery leadership and coordination
- Lead and develop a collaborative group of business developers
Your Key Responsibilities
- Drive market growth and strategic pursuits.
- Lead the Water market strategy for the Alberta with a focus on the Edmonton Region, translating regional priorities into focused client, account, and pursuit plans.
- Develop a healthy sales pipeline and achieve revenue targets
- Build strong client relationships and lead key accounts.
- Lead significant project pursuits and project delivery in an appropriate technical, project management, review, or advisory role.
- Provide contract review and compliance oversight and resource planning on pursuits
- Support and help deliver the annual business plan for Water in the region
- Support successful project delivery, quality, and risk management.
- Lead, mentor, and connect high-performing teams.
- Champion collaboration, inclusion, and health and safety.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
• Strong business development, account management, and sales-strategy skills, with demonstrated success building and maintaining productive client relationships in Alberta’s water market, specifically in the Edmonton Region.
• Strong project management and/or technical delivery experience on water, wastewater, conveyance, or related infrastructure projects.
• Experience developing proposals in response to requests for proposals, expressions of interest, and statements of qualifications.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, coach, and influence multidisciplinary teams working across offices, geographies, and business lines, fostering cohesive and results-oriented collaboration.
• Sound commercial judgment, including experience with project risk, contracts, fees, scope, schedule, and quality.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work across multiple deadlines.
• A valid driver’s license and a satisfactory driving record.
• Registration, or eligibility for registration, as a Professional Engineer in Alberta, or another relevant professional designation.
• Minimum 15 years of consulting experience in the Water Industry
Communities everywhere share the need for clean water. And as they work to meet that need, they’re facing new, more complex challenges every day. Our water professionals collaborate to contribute innovative ideas, guided by scientific rigor and a vision for sustainable growth. Every day, we’re helping communities improve, reuse, and protect our world’s most precious resource.
Join our team to deliver transformational projects that will benefit future generations. Grow with us, H2O+U.
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