About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Planning Director – Statewide and Regional Planning based in United States.
The Planning Director will lead the growth and strategic development of a national statewide and regional transportation planning practice. This senior leadership role will shape transportation strategies, capital investment programs, and long-range planning initiatives for major public-sector clients.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a national strategy for statewide and regional planning, including priority markets, service offerings, client engagement approaches, pursuit strategies, delivery models, and growth objectives
- Build and expand executive-level relationships with state DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, regional authorities, and other public-sector transportation organizations
- Serve as a trusted advisor on transportation planning, policy, funding, capital investment, performance, technology, and implementation challenges
- Identify, qualify, position, and lead major statewide and regional planning opportunities, including capture strategies, teaming decisions, proposals, interviews, pricing, and contracting
- Develop strategic account plans and strengthen relationships with established and prospective clients in priority markets
- Coordinate multidisciplinary professionals across planning, engineering, economics, grants, resilience, sustainability, digital technology, energy, and program management
- Establish and lead a professional network supporting business development, project delivery, innovation, knowledge sharing, and market development
- Assess capability gaps and recommend strategic hiring, partnerships, investments, and internal development initiatives
- Mentor and develop planning professionals
- Provide senior technical and strategic oversight for complex statewide, regional, multimodal, long-range, and capital planning engagements
- Guide innovative approaches incorporating data analytics, scenario planning, technology, performance measures, policy analysis, and implementation strategies
- Support commercially sound project planning, financial performance, risk management, quality delivery
- Develop differentiated service offerings and strengthen industry visibility through conferences, professional associations, research, publications
- Identify and share lessons learned, best practices, technical innovations
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in urban planning, transportation planning, civil engineering, public policy, public administration, geography, economics, or a related field
- At least 15 years of progressively responsible experience in transportation planning, consulting, public-sector planning, or a related discipline
- Extensive experience leading statewide, regional, metropolitan, multimodal, or long-range transportation planning programs
- Demonstrated experience working with state DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, regional transportation authorities, or comparable public-sector clients
- Proven ability to develop and expand executive-level client relationships
- Experience directing capture strategies, proposals, interviews, teaming arrangements, scopes of work, staffing plans, and fee development
- Strong knowledge of long-range transportation planning, modal and multimodal planning, capital investment planning, performance-based planning, strategic planning, and implementation strategies
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across offices, regions, technical disciplines, or business units
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex transportation, policy, funding, technical, and organizational challenges into practical solutions
- Experience managing financial and commercial aspects of consulting engagements, including budgets, risk, profitability, and performance
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, negotiation, and executive communication skills
- Ability to travel as needed
- A master's degree in a relevant discipline is preferred
- AICP certification or another relevant professional certification is preferred; PE licensure is advantageous where applicable
- Experience developing a national or multiregional transportation planning practice, service line, or center of excellence is preferred
- Experience with strategic business planning, market development, revenue forecasting, and practice-performance monitoring is beneficial
- Familiarity with federal transportation planning requirements, funding programs, performance-management frameworks, and public-sector decision-making processes is preferred
Conditions
- Annual compensation range of $179,925.15–$205,628.74