
Regional Business Development Director- Texas
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Job overview
WSP seeks a Regional Business Development Director to drive growth across its Power Delivery business in Texas. The role focuses on developing high-value opportunities, expanding strategic client relationships, strengthening market position, and leading critical pursuits. The director will use market intelligence and client insight to shape growth strategies, guide negotiations, and connect utility and infrastructure clients with WSP’s capabilities.
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This Opportunity
WSP is seeking a Regional Business Development Director – Texas to help drive growth across our Power Delivery business in Houston, TX . The following locations will also be considered: New Orleans, LA and Dallas, TX . This senior leadership position will focus on identifying and developing high-value opportunities, expanding strategic client relationships, strengthening our market position, and leading critical pursuits across the Texas.
This is an opportunity for an experienced business development leader who understands how utilities and infrastructure clients make investment decisions and can connect those needs with the full capabilities of WSP.
Your Impact
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Build and deepen executive client relationships, creating sustained engagement with key clients and positioning WSP's differentiated capabilities.
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Drive strategic growth initiatives aligned with WSP's market positioning, revenue objectives and broader business strategy.
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Develop market and competitive intelligence, assessing trends and prioritizing high-value opportunities and growth sectors.
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Lead strategic pursuits and capture efforts, providing senior oversight of complex proposals, client presentations and strategic marketing initiatives.
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Guide critical client negotiations and partnerships, working across the organization to align opportunities with WSP's strategic objectives and risk considerations.
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Contribute directly to revenue growth, backlog, market expansion, client retention and competitive positioning across the business.
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Provide insight on market trends, client needs, competitive positioning and investment priorities to help shape business development and long-term growth strategies.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing or a closely related discipline, or demonstrated equivalent experience.
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15+ years of relevant post-education professional experience in senior-level business development, strategic marketing, client relationship management, sales leadership or related executive roles.
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Demonstrated experience identifying, evaluating and capturing complex, high-value business opportunities in professional services.
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Experience conducting market research, competitive assessments and strategic analyses to inform growth and market-expansion decisions.
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A track record of developing and sustaining executive-level client relationships and managing strategic client engagements and negotiations.
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Advanced experience with strategic proposals, executive presentations and high-impact marketing materials.
What Success Looks Like
The successful candidate will operate as a market leader and client strategist, not simply an opportunity manager. They will bring together client relationships, market intelligence and WSP's technical capabilities to establish early positioning, focus investment on the right opportunities and convert relationships into sustainable growth.
They will also be comfortable working across organizational boundaries, bringing the right leaders and technical experts to clients and helping WSP present an integrated value proposition.
Why This Role Matters
Power Delivery represents a relationship-driven market where major opportunities are often shaped well before a formal procurement begins. This position is intended to strengthen that early client engagement and opportunity development while bringing greater strategic discipline to pursuit and capture. The underlying role profile identifies its impact as revenue growth, market expansion, client retention, backlog development and stronger competitive positioning.
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About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,878 open Sales Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$150–239K/yr66 salary ranges
- US median$22–25/hr24 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 120 open Sales Leadership jobs in Texas and 1,878 across the US. 18% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Sales Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,533 postings).
- Education
- 444 of the 1,878 open Sales Leadership jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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