Business Center Practice Leader – Community Development
Top Benefits
About the role
Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.
If you’re passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career with endless opportunities to make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable.
Your Opportunity
An opportunity exists for a driven and optimistic individual to become the Business Center Practice Leader (BCPL) for the Community Development Business Centre (BC) based out of Calgary, Alberta. Reporting to the Canada West Regional Business Leader (RBL), the BCPL will guide the team in the pursuit of interesting projects with the best clients in the market. The BCPL is accountable for sustaining and growing the top line net revenue of the BC, while working collaboratively with the Business Center Operations Leader (BCOL) in support of business operations and project delivery. The BCPL’s primary focus is on local and regional clients within the Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan Region but they will also work collaboratively with other BCPLs across other areas.
Closing date for applications is November 21, 2025.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads business development activities including sales plans, account management, proposal process & governance, business development meetings, and client surveys.
- Supports, and when required, leads the optimization of Stantec’s core business processes, including adoption of new technology, innovation, and work practices to improve the BC’s competitive advantage and value proposition.
- Cascade’s sales goal accountability to a core group including Principals, Team Leads, Project Managers and other identified business developers.
- Conducts regular touchpoints with each business developer to help them overcome roadblocks, ensure the health of their sales funnel to meet utilization targets, strategize on pursuits and value propositions, and chart their long-term career growth.
- Monitors team sales KPIs and proactively identify the actions to continuously improve each month.
- Instills a culture of continuous learning and enables growth amongst the core group of business developers.
- Analyzes team performance data to suggest scalable improvements to core sales processes and sales training.
- Fosters a transparent, inclusive, and achievement-oriented team culture.
- Consistently demonstrates a commitment to the Health and Safety culture within the BC.
- Supports the Business Center Operations (BCOL) Leader in achieving key operational and delivery performance.
- Collaborates with the BCOL and management team to contribute to the BC annual business plan and budget.
- Actively involved in broad project oversight to maintain personal utilization targets, including executing strategic projects in a lead role (i.e. Project Manager, Technical Lead) as required.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Track record of overachievement against individual and team quotas.
- Strong experience in project delivery and business development activities.
- Experience with process improvement and fostering a continuous improvement culture.
- Strong understanding of the Community Development consulting business, including proposal management and account management.
- Proven ability to effectively lead, challenge, and inspire staff to work together cohesively as a team.
- Demonstrated ability to champion both technical and customer service excellence with conviction and purpose.
- Strong written, verbal, analytical and interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Education and Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of Community Development related consulting experience.
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture or a related equivalent within the land development industry. Professional designation and registration is preferred.
- Valid Class 5 Drivers License.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Primary Location: Canada | AB | Calgary
Organization: 1165 CommDev-CA Alberta South-Calgary AB
Employee Status: Regular
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 21/10/2025 04:10:47
Req ID: 1002697
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.
Business Center Practice Leader – Community Development
Top Benefits
About the role
Strong communities don’t just happen. They’re thoughtfully planned and future-ready. We bring life to urban downtowns, suburban hubs, small towns, and rural areas through master-planned communities, mixed-use developments, parks, and recreation facilities. The result: vibrant economic centers, resilient neighborhoods, and welcoming places that feel like home.
If you’re passionate about empowering communities, join us to discover a career with endless opportunities to make communities more equitable, resilient, and livable.
Your Opportunity
An opportunity exists for a driven and optimistic individual to become the Business Center Practice Leader (BCPL) for the Community Development Business Centre (BC) based out of Calgary, Alberta. Reporting to the Canada West Regional Business Leader (RBL), the BCPL will guide the team in the pursuit of interesting projects with the best clients in the market. The BCPL is accountable for sustaining and growing the top line net revenue of the BC, while working collaboratively with the Business Center Operations Leader (BCOL) in support of business operations and project delivery. The BCPL’s primary focus is on local and regional clients within the Southern Alberta and Saskatchewan Region but they will also work collaboratively with other BCPLs across other areas.
Closing date for applications is November 21, 2025.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads business development activities including sales plans, account management, proposal process & governance, business development meetings, and client surveys.
- Supports, and when required, leads the optimization of Stantec’s core business processes, including adoption of new technology, innovation, and work practices to improve the BC’s competitive advantage and value proposition.
- Cascade’s sales goal accountability to a core group including Principals, Team Leads, Project Managers and other identified business developers.
- Conducts regular touchpoints with each business developer to help them overcome roadblocks, ensure the health of their sales funnel to meet utilization targets, strategize on pursuits and value propositions, and chart their long-term career growth.
- Monitors team sales KPIs and proactively identify the actions to continuously improve each month.
- Instills a culture of continuous learning and enables growth amongst the core group of business developers.
- Analyzes team performance data to suggest scalable improvements to core sales processes and sales training.
- Fosters a transparent, inclusive, and achievement-oriented team culture.
- Consistently demonstrates a commitment to the Health and Safety culture within the BC.
- Supports the Business Center Operations (BCOL) Leader in achieving key operational and delivery performance.
- Collaborates with the BCOL and management team to contribute to the BC annual business plan and budget.
- Actively involved in broad project oversight to maintain personal utilization targets, including executing strategic projects in a lead role (i.e. Project Manager, Technical Lead) as required.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Track record of overachievement against individual and team quotas.
- Strong experience in project delivery and business development activities.
- Experience with process improvement and fostering a continuous improvement culture.
- Strong understanding of the Community Development consulting business, including proposal management and account management.
- Proven ability to effectively lead, challenge, and inspire staff to work together cohesively as a team.
- Demonstrated ability to champion both technical and customer service excellence with conviction and purpose.
- Strong written, verbal, analytical and interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Education and Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of Community Development related consulting experience.
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture or a related equivalent within the land development industry. Professional designation and registration is preferred.
- Valid Class 5 Drivers License.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Primary Location: Canada | AB | Calgary
Organization: 1165 CommDev-CA Alberta South-Calgary AB
Employee Status: Regular
Travel: Yes
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 21/10/2025 04:10:47
Req ID: 1002697
About Stantec
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure.
We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.
Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN.