National Business Unit Manager - Environmental Management

About Dillon Consulting:

Dillon Consulting is a 100% employee-owned company powered by passionate professionals dedicated to delivering impactful solutions. We are recognized as a Great Place to Work, committed to fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive environment where you can truly thrive. At Dillon, we live by our core values of reliability, achievement, continuous development, creativity, courage, and inclusiveness. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment to support your success.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a dynamic and results-oriented Business Unit Manager to lead our Environmental Management Business Unit nationally across Canada. This is a pivotal role for a proven leader with a strong track record of driving business growth, building high-performing teams, and delivering exceptional client experiences. As a key member of Dillon’s Markets leadership team, you will have the opportunity to shape the strategic direction of the business unit, expand our market presence, and mentor a team of talented professionals. This role can be based in any Dillon office across Canada.

What You Will Do:

• Drive National Business Growth: Develop and execute strategic business plans to achieve revenue, profitability, and sales targets across Canada. Build and maintain a robust sales pipeline, identify new business opportunities, and expand our client base.
• Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team: Inspire, mentor, and manage a team of Business Development Managers and Regional Account Managers. Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment focused on achieving results.
• Cultivate Client Relationships: Develop and strengthen relationships with key clients, ensuring exceptional service delivery and achieving the highest levels of client satisfaction.
• Financial and Operational Excellence: Oversee the business unit's operations, manage financial performance (i.e. pipeline, backlog, margin and marketing efficiency), and ensure effective sales and resource alignment.
• Strategic Leadership and Risk Management: Provide strategic direction, analyze market trends, manage risk, and ensure the business unit's continued success.
• Environmental Management Focus: Oversee projects and services related to environmental compliance and risk (including environmental studies to evaluate natural resources and ensure regulatory compliance) and environmental permitting and approvals (including permitting, environmental assessments, and post-construction monitoring).

What You Will Need to Succeed:

• Minimum 15 years of progressive professional experience, with at least 5 years in a management role, preferably within a professional services consulting environment.
• A proven track record of success in business development and sales, with the ability to build and execute effective sales strategies on a national scale.
• Exceptional leadership and people management skills, with a passion for developing and motivating high-performing teams.
• Strong business acumen, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and client relationship management skills.
• Ability to drive results, manage multiple priorities, and thrive in a dynamic environment.
• Willingness to travel across Canada as required.

Why choose Dillon

Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.   Have a national impact and play a key role in shaping Dillon's Environmental Management business across Canada.

We live our core values:

• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust.
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target.
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing.
• Creativity: discover new possibilities.
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it’s hard.
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences.

Dillon is a certified Great Place to Work. This recognition underscores our commitment to fostering an outstanding employee experience and cultivating an exceptional workplace culture. At Dillon, we believe that our people are our greatest asset. This designation reflects our ongoing efforts to ensure that our workplace is not just a place of work, but a community where everyone can thrive.

In addition, we offer:

Employee share purchase plan

• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.  Become an owner and share in our success.

A competitive compensation package

• Comprehensive health benefits.
• Generous retirement savings plan.
• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions.

Flexible work hours and remote working options

• Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs.  We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and remote work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

Learning and Development opportunities

• As a knowledge-based business, the organic growth of our knowledge and skills occur through our work performance and roles. The creation and sharing of knowledge allows us to take local knowledge to scale, capture lessons learned through experience, and continuously improve service delivery. The development of self and others is an evident and measured core behaviour within our organization.
• We use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal, and learning opportunities.  We invest in your professional growth through continuous learning and development opportunities.

Focus on Innovation

• The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s opportunities.  Be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and diversity.

Employee and Family Assistance program

• A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.

Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership

• Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.

Wellness Subsidy

• Our employees can take advantage of wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes  and dance classes.

About Dillon

Dillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 20 offices and more than 1000 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies for the past 18 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program.

Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon:

Dillon is committed to the principles of employment equity, inclusiveness, and diversity within our organization. We strive to achieve a workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities and that respects and values differences.  Inclusion is more than a word to us, it is the way we choose to run our business. Please connect with us if you require accommodation in the interview process. 

We would love to hear from you!

Join us at Dillon Consulting and make a significant impact!