Transport Planning Business Line Manager

Country/Region: FR- Field: Consulting- Location: Paris, FR, 75015- Type of Contract: Permanent- Level of experience: 10-15 years- Job number:
**SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups** **specialising in public transport and sustainable mobility**. With over **10,300 employees**, SYSTRA's mission is to design safe and sustainable transport solutions to bring people together, develop social inclusion and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure throughout the world.

For 65 years, the Group has been working alongside cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their infrastructure and transport systems, throughout the life cycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved from the earliest stages of design through to the testing, deployment and maintenance phases. The company provides all its services in over **80 countries** **worldwide** and generates **74% of its turnover internationally**. With its new services, SYSTRA supports its clients and partners in their digital, ecological and energy transition, in order to invent the mobility of tomorrow.

**Context**:
Consultancy at SYSTRA focuses on transport planning and represent more than 800 staff in 7 countries. In order to structure a global offering, to strengthen the links between the consultancy entities and to propose multi-site delivery schemes, SYSTRA is looking for a business line manager who will be in charge of the Consultancy Group, a transversal technical group. He/She will act under the direction of the Consultancy Group steering committee, composed by the 7 Consultancy BU leaders: France, UK, Asia, Brasil, Canada, Australia and India.

The Business Line Manager will be hierarchically related to the Business Lines and Production department, created with the main goal to support the international business growth.

In its role, Business Lines and Production is to:

- Define the strategic development of the Engineering centers worldwide
- Support the different Business Units during bids, operations in their collaboration with the Engineering centers
- Lead Transversal Business lines (Bridges, tunnels, consultancy, systems transverse group)
- Propose Multi site production split between the different engineering centers of the group
- Prepare main multi-site Bids/Tenders
- Follow up main multi-site production projects
- Propose coordination tools and ease the collaboration within the group
- Coordinate the infrastructure technical networks throughout the group.

**Main duties**:
The Transport planning Business Line Manager is in charge of:

- He/she is one the three business lines leads and, consequently, he/she is the face of the Consultancy for SYSTRA as a Group
- He/she is the point of contact of the Business Units (internal clients) and consultancy production teams (provider of services)

**STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT**
- Organize and follow up the Consultancy Group meetings and workstreams
- Define the purpose, the roadmap of the Consultancy Business Line, taking into consideration the specific needs of consultancy activities for SYSTRA:

- Raison d’être
- Best services for the Group:

- Support the commercial strategy of the Bus
- Experts network animation / community management, with support from BLP’s community manager
- Support for meeting key clients when/if required
- Based on coordination with the production teams, he/she is responsible for:

- The definition of the positioning of SYSTRA, as a Group, in the consultancy market for the core business:

- Definition of the value chain
- Mapping of skills and services per BU
- Group positioning on the value chain
- The elaboration and promotion of portfolio of services of SYSTRA as a Group.
- Coordinate with BLP production strategy lead to develop a 5years production strategic plan, for consultancy services

**MARKETING/COMMUNICATION**
- Develop the brand of the consultancy group
- Define the strategy of communication for the business line (Symposium, conferences etc )

**BIDS SUPPORT AND OPERATION COORDINATION**
- Coordinating technical bids with the different Consultancy BUs and interfacing with the SYSTRA internal clients (Bus from Home Countries / International East or West). Propose smart production split between the different Engineering Centers
- Setup the project multi-site organization after award and follow up on the project operations.
- Pipe follow up for major bids
- Define and support the implementation of the digital strategy for consultancy services, in support of other functions

**OTHER ACTIVITIES**
- Consolidate a workload plan with the different entities
- “to think out of the box” to contribute to the launch of new “societal projects” in coordination with BLP transversal functions lead and with the Group sustainability team.

All other activities related to the department Business Lines and Production ant its growth.

**Degrees**:

- Master degree / Engineer in Civil engineer