Director, Country Lead

As Country Director, you will lead and grow Linesight’s business in the United Kingdom, fostering a high-performance culture, developing strong teams, and building long-term client partnerships across the Data Centre, Life Sciences, and Hi-Tech sectors.

This role requires a strategic and commercially minded leader who can unite people, establish clear structure, and drive sustainable growth while ensuring operational excellence and alignment with regional and global objectives. You will play a key role in delivering Linesight’s BUILD objectives by strengthening client relationships, enhancing service capability, and expanding market presence.

As Linesight’s senior in-country representative, you will champion cultural, operational, and commercial excellence while overseeing governance, compliance, and risk management. You will also elevate Linesight’s external profile in the market and ensure all business activity aligns with regional and global strategy.

• Lead, develop, and grow multidisciplinary teams
• Build strong client relationships and market presence
• Drive business performance and strategic growth
• Define and execute market growth strategies across key sectors
• Strengthen Linesight’s brand visibility and market positioning in Germany
• Collaborate closely with regional leadership and business support functions including HR, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Operations
• Oversee commercial, operational, and delivery performance
• Ensure governance, compliance, and quality standards
• Partner with European leadership on strategic priorities

Requirements

• Proven leadership experience managing and scaling teams or business operations
• Strong commercial and relationship management capability
• Experience driving growth, developing market presence, and leading client engagement
• Strong collaboration skills across multiple business functions and senior stakeholders
• Experience within Data Centres, Life Sciences, Hi-Tech, consultancy, engineering, construction, professional services, or similar environments
• Track record of leading people, clients, and business performance
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Fluent German and English
• Degree or equivalent professional experience preferred

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required

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Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility
Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!