Director, Property Consultancy (Health and Life Sciences)

About the Role

WSP’s Health & Life Sciences Advisory team (HLSA) is growing and we are looking for an experienced Director to expand our Property Advisory offer across the North of England. With more than 30 offices across the UK, including key northern hubs in Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle , WSP offers a strong platform to grow a regionally focused healthcare property advisory practice with national reach and multidisciplinary support.

The role is a senior, market‑facing position that combines strategic property insight with strong commercial leadership. You will lead the development of new healthcare business opportunities across the NHS, independent healthcare and wider public sector, while strengthening WSP’s regional presence and deepening our relationships with clients and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the growth of WSP’s HLSA Property Advisory business across the North of England, identifying, shaping and converting new opportunities.
• Provide strategic property advice to healthcare clients, helping them align estate decisions with clinical, operational, financial and organisational objectives.
• Work alongside WSP’s multidisciplinary teams, including healthcare planning, cost management, project and programme management, town planning, sustainability and digital advisory.
• Advise on complex asset and portfolio management strategies that improve utilisation, release value, reduce risk and support long‑term service resilience.
• Lead options appraisals, development strategies, commercial assessments and cash‑flow analysis to support investment, rationalisation and redevelopment decisions.
• Lead property transactions, including disposals, acquisitions, lettings, lease advisory and related client‑side property negotiations.

Leadership & Team Development

• Take an active leadership role in growing the team, supporting colleagues, sharing knowledge and creating opportunities for others to develop.
• Deliver work commercially, managing scope, quality, programme, risk and profitability across commissions.
• Communicate clearly and persuasively through reports, proposals, presentations, workshops and senior client conversations.
• Promote collaboration across HLSA and the wider WSP business to create stronger, broader client propositions.
• Understand the wider commercial, strategic and reputational impact of your work, balancing client value with WSP’s growth objectives.
• Champion technical quality, robust governance and effective review across the work you lead.
• Engage confidently with senior stakeholders, including executive teams, estate directors, commercial leads, clinicians, public sector partners and investors.
• Demonstrate WSP’s values in the way you lead, collaborate, make decisions and represent the business.

Qualifications & Experience

• A strong track record in healthcare, public sector or specialist property advisory, ideally gained within a consultancy, client‑side estate team or comparable advisory environment.
• Degree qualified, or equivalent, with a relevant professional qualification such as MRICS preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of property markets, healthcare estate drivers, public sector decision‑making and wider economic and commercial trends.
• Strong client relationship, negotiation, networking and business development skills, with evidence of winning or growing work.
• Commercial confidence, sound judgement and the ability to manage priorities, risk and delivery across multiple client relationships and commissions.
• Experience leading, motivating and developing collaborative teams, with an inclusive and empowering leadership style.
• The ability to build capability in others, provide constructive feedback and foster long‑term learning, collaboration and devolved leadership.
• An interest in how digital technologies, data and evidence‑led insight can support estate optimisation, service redesign, investment planning and improved outcomes for healthcare clients.

Benefits

Hybrid working: flexibility to work from home two days a week while also having opportunities to collaborate in modern offices across the UK.

Work‑life balance: personalised support such as “WSP My Hour” for one hour each day, part‑time and flexible arrangements, additional leave options and use of bank holiday entitlement.

Health & wellbeing: access to WSP Thrive, virtual GP service, reasonable workplace adjustments, Gymflex gym‑membership scheme, and a comprehensive menopause support package.

Professional development: training, mentoring, chartership opportunities and a supportive environment that invests in your growth.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria; please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.

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