Business Leader - Wellington

ROLE Business Leader - Wellington ROLE PURPOSE As the Business Leader – Wellington you’ll drive growth, performance, and delivery in Vitruvius' Wellington region, leading people and projects to achieve the business' financial, quality, and client relationship targets. The key outcomes of this role are: • The Wellington team is high-performing, capable, and engaged. Key talent is recruited, developed, retained, and resourced effectively, with the region actively contributing to a strong, values-led Vitruvius culture. • The region has a clear pathway for improvement and growth. Opportunities for business improvement are identified and acted on, with people, pipeline, and performance managed deliberately to shape the region’s growth trajectory. • Project delivery is consistent, controlled, and commercially sound. Project teams execute work on time, in full, and to specification, with clear financial, quality, productivity, and client relationship expectations set, monitored, and achieved. • Vitruvius’ future direction is strengthened. New business and client opportunities are pursued in a way that influences the broader company direction, extending the role’s impact beyond the Wellington region. In addition, the role contributes to health, safety, and quality by recognising that these are fundamental to how Vitruvius works and to the outcomes we deliver for our people, clients, and communities. This means consistently applying relevant legislation, standards, codes of practice, and company systems, while working safely and supporting a proactive approach to quality management so work is completed safely, accurately, and to the expected standard. PURPOSE & VALUES To be successful at Vitruvius and in this role, all employees must be aligned to and embrace our purpose and values so that we work as a collective towards a common purpose. Our purpose: Projects that matter delivered by people who care Our values, what we live by! • Committed to connection • Believe in bravery • Continually improving • Teamwork • Enjoy the adventure Business Leader - Wellington | September 2026 | Page 1 ORGANISATION CONTEXT The nature of business that Vitruvius operates is to deliver client projects and we recognise that each project has different capabilities and requirements. For each project a project team is established which may be considered as a temporary organisation structure and can be illustrated below. The Business Leader - Wellington will be assigned to a role within the Project Team which may include Project Director or Project Leader when working on client projects. The quality of delivery is critical, and every project team member is expected to fulfil the quality responsibilities of their assigned role, including applying project requirements, completing required reviews/checks, maintaining records, and escalating quality issues where needed. KEY RELATIONSHIPS Line Manager: Responsible for: Internal relationships: External relationships: Managing Director 12 with aspirations to grow further to achieve business KPIs All employees Key Clients, Partnership Consultants, Service Providers, Third Party Contractors, Public DIMENSIONS AND SCOPE Contract Type: Location: Revenue Responsibility: Number of Direct Reports: Level: Permanent full time Wellington $3M+ 3+ 10L KEY ACCOUNTABILITIEST THE 1. REGIONAL LEADERSHIP AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE • Lead the Wellington region as a visible senior leader, translating Vitruvius’ strategy into clear regional priorities, performance expectations, and delivery outcomes. Business Leader - Wellington | September 2026 | Page 2 • Own regional performance against agreed revenue, margin, utilisation, billability, backlog, pipeline, client, quality, and people measures. • Develop and implement the Wellington business plan, aligned with Vitruvius’ sector plans and national growth priorities. • Monitor regional performance and take timely action to address risks, gaps, resourcing constraints, or underperformance. • Contribute to company-wide leadership, decision-making, and continuous improvement as a senior leader within the business. 2. PEOPLE LEADERSHIP, CAPABILITY AND CULTURE • Build, lead, and retain a high-performing Wellington team with clear expectations, accountability, development pathways, and succession plans. • Coach and support Service Leaders, Project Leaders, and technical professionals to lift delivery, commercial, and leadership capability. • Lead workforce planning, recruitment, and resourcing decisions in line with pipeline, growth plans, and capability needs. • Lead a strong local office culture that reflects Vitruvius’ purpose and values, including collaboration, professional standards, wellbeing, and accountability. • Address performance, conduct, and capability issues early, fairly, and directly, with support from the Business Support team as required. 3. CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS, MARKET PRESENCE AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT • Strengthen Vitruvius’ Wellington market presence through trusted relationships with key clients, partners, consultants, contractors, and sector stakeholders. • Develop and maintain key client and opportunity plans, with clear ownership of relationship activity, pipeline movement, and conversion. • Identify, qualify, and pursue opportunities aligned with Vitruvius’ strategy, capability, risk appetite, and commercial expectations. • Support Sector Leaders with local market intelligence, capture planning, proposal strategy, bid/no-bid decisions, and high quality submissions to clients. • Promote the broader Vitruvius offering and actively connect clients with relevant capability across the business. 4. PROJECT DELIVERY, QUALITY AND RISK • Provide oversight of Wellington project delivery to ensure work is delivered safely, profitably, on time, to scope, and to the required technical and quality standards. • Ensure Project Leaders and project teams apply the Project Delivery Framework, QMS requirements, delegated authorities, contract requirements, and review/check processes. • Monitor project performance, including programme, budget, margin, variation management, resourcing, client satisfaction, quality issues, and delivery risk. • Escalate and resolve delivery, contractual, technical, or client issues early, using sound judgement and appropriate governance. • Champion lessons learnt, corrective actions, and practical improvements that lift consistency, quality, and delivery performance across the region. Business Leader - Wellington | September 2026 | Page 3 5. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND PROFESSIONAL JUDGEMENT • Provide technical leadership within area of competence, ensuring project teams have appropriate guidance, review, and verification to support sound technical outcomes. • Apply senior professional judgement to complex technical, delivery, contractual, and client issues, escalating matters where specialist input or governance is required. • Support technical quality by promoting clear standards, consistent methodologies, robust checking processes, and compliance with relevant industry requirements. • Act as verifier for design outputs within area of competency, where appropriate, and ensure verification requirements are planned and completed effectively. • Champion safety in design, practical innovation, lessons learnt, and continuous improvement in technical delivery. • Maintain professional credibility through ongoing technical awareness, sector knowledge, and contribution to a culture of technical excellence across Vitruvius. 6. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE • Own Wellington’s financial performance, including revenue growth, profitability, utilisation, billability, recoverability, work-in-progress, and contribution to business plan targets. • Monitor, and manage regional budgets, forecasts, resourcing assumptions, and pipeline projections. • Make commercially sound decisions on pricing, resourcing, delivery models, risk, client commitments, and opportunity selection. • Work with Project Leaders and support functions to improve project margins, manage variations, reduce leakage, and strengthen financial discipline. • Operate within delegated financial and contractual authorities and escalate matters where required. 7. HEALTH, SAFETY & WELLBEING • Lead a proactive health, safety, and wellbeing culture within the Wellington region, ensuring expectations are understood, visible, and consistently reinforced. • Ensure regional activities comply with relevant health and safety, environmental, quality, employment, and professional obligations. • Support hazard identification, incident reporting, investigations, corrective actions, and learning across the team. • Ensure safe design, site safety, and project-specific HSW requirements are considered through planning, delivery, and review. • Model safe, professional, and ethical decision-making in line with Vitruvius’ standards and values. Business Leader - Wellington | September 2026 | Page 4 Business Leader - Wellington | September 2026 | Page 5 KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ATTRIBUTES 1. KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE Essential Desirable • 10+ years’ experience as a business professional • Specific civil engineering experience in 3 waters, rail or civil infrastructure, roads or transport. • Demonstrated client relationship management • Technical excellence and high-level project delivery acumen • Exceptional problem-solving capability to resolve complex technical and operational challenges • Excellent English written and oral communication skills capable of presenting complex information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. • Project Leadership on planning, design, and delivery major projects >$50M CAPEX • Leadership role on industry technical/professional body 2. EDUCATION, TRAINING AND TECHNICAL COMPETENCE Essential Desirable • Engineer/Equivalent or Licensed Cadastral Surveyor • Bachelor/Degree /Equivalent in Engineering/Business Management/Finance (Level 7) • High level of computer literacy • Practical working knowledge of AI-enabled tools • Project reporting and documentation • Understands responsibilities under HSE Act 2015 • Full drivers’ licence • NZ Chartered Professional • Certificate in HSE management 3. BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCE Essential Desirable • High level of integrity • • Able to manage pressure in work environments • Self-motivated and self-directed • High level of innovation and ingenuity • Positive motivator of others • Able to speak up when it matters • Ability to gain high level of credibility with clients • Curious and pragmatic about emerging technology Business Leader - Wellington | September 2026 | Page 6