Geographic Leader

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we're integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow._ - Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow._ **Your Impact**: At Jacobs, we challenge what is currently accepted, so we can shape innovative and lasting solutions for tomorrow. If you’re interested in a long and rewarding career working with the industry’s best and most innovative engineers, then Jacobs is where you belong. We are looking for a driven and curious client-focused Thermal Power Start Up and Commissioning Supervisors to grow with our team. We are helping our clients meet the challenges faced in countries and cities across the globe, providing innovative solutions from replacing conventional thermal power plants with renewable energy to developing demand side management strategies. As part of the growing Energy & Power team, we have a strategic opportunity for a Geographic Leader - Power Generations and Storage Solutions. The Geographic Area Manager supports the Senior Director of Operations and provides leadership to a capability area within the Middle East E&P Region. You will provide consistent leadership and role modelling of Jacobs’ core values, fostering an inclusive and diverse culture across your Capability Area that embodies Jacobs’ Culture of Caring and prioritises the health and wellbeing of your people. You will set clear direction and provide a strong role model regarding client focus and responsiveness and your strong client relationships will help to ensure we can identify and anticipate client needs. Our recruitment, retention and development programs should reflect this need. Under your stable and composed leadership your team will be engaged, resilient and adaptable, remaining flexible and focussed in a changing, competitive environment. You will influence and shape culture in line with Jacobs’ strategy where your people are inspired to challenge traditional ways of doing things and strive for innovation while maintaining outstanding client service. You will empower and support your team to thrive in a global setting, prioritising cross-geography relationships in order to maximise the benefit to our clients and our people of global delivery. This will include continually striving to find new ways of working which sustainably build trusted relationships both nationally and internationally while minimising the need to travel. You will work closely with the Client Growth Manager(s) in the Middle East to efficiently grow our pipeline of work and magnify our ability to serve our clients and our communities. You will be accountable for the financial performance of the capability area and central to ensuring we create lasting and sustainable value for our shareholders. You will deliver upon key commercial performance objectives and provide leadership in the areas such as integrated delivery with our GDCs to deliver on these outcomes. By motivating, inspiring and holding your team to account, you will ensure that considered investment decisions, responsible cost control, balanced risk management and disciplined solution delivery translates to the achievement of key commercial targets and broader business goals. **Here’s What You’ll Need**: Key selection criteria and leadership competencies**: - **_Values Differences_**: Experience driving a culture of inclusive, high-performing integrated teams. Demonstrated ability and commitment to maximising the power of diverse thinking and perspectives by creating a culture in which differences are shared, celebrated and incorporated into business activities - **_Customer Focus_**: Experience articulating and role modelling clear expectations for client responsiveness, client orientation, delivery efficiency and solution innovation - **_Builds Effective Teams_**: Demonstrated leadership capability and demonstrated experience building teams and empowering, supporting, mentoring and holding them to account to ensure that they can thrive in a global setting - **_Business Insight_**: Evidence of an understanding of market trends and key financial drivers to contribute to and drive sound commercial decision making - **_Communicates Effectively_**: Strong communication skills and ability to effectively inspire and engage you team to drive achievement of key business priorities (e.g. BeyondZero, project delivery, Client Expectation surveys) - Strategic Mindset: Evidence of a strategic mindse