Assistant Vice President, Advisory Services

Description

• Accountable for overall project performance, included timely completion, financial performance, quality of work product.
• Provide leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the Advisory Services discipline.
• Work collaboratively with junior and senior team members to deliver to deliver excellent client services
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Foster “trusted advisor” service and future-ready solutions for clients.
• Lead client meetings and interact directly and independently with clients to understand and address strategic needs for major capital projects.
• Lead complex and large scale Advisory Services projects within the company, ensuring project management, budget, work product, quality control and financial performance meet company standards.
• Work directly with public and private sector clients to analyze and model business processes based on performance data, implement organizational strategy and business analytics, and identify opportunities for performance improvement.
• Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables.
• Build professional network across industry to support business development opportunities, marketing, proposals, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
• Guide and navigate ambiguous environments and have complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track.
• Take initiative in developing technical excellence in providing high quality level performance
• Contribute and lead various national business development efforts end-to-end – from opportunity identification, proposal development, interview and negotiations.
• Independently perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis, document findings, and present project outcomes to client executives
• Produce high-quality, professional deliverables independently on projects and proposals.
• Recommend data driven improvements to achieve future state.
• Develop and drive to completion action-oriented improvement roadmaps.
• Serve as an Advisory Services representative/liaison to a variety of external entities including Federal, State, and Local Agencies, Clients, Subcontractors, industry-related groups, and various government and community entities.

Requirements

• Ability to evaluate current state across people, processes and ideally technology.
• 10+ years experience in directly relevant endeavors, particularly capital delivery for transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry.
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• Lean Six-Sigma certification (or similar)
• Ability to manage project and project team, including time management and working to deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
• Experience in designing and implementing process improvement practices.
• Familiarity with technological solutions and tools that support automation and decision making within the public works environment
• Ability to work in a matrixed environment and experience with influencing without authority.
• Understanding of capital delivery processes, particularly in a transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry context. This would include moving through planning, design, procurement, construction, handover to operations.
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability and performance improvement from within an organization
• Prosci certification (or similar)
• Project Management experience - able to manage efforts within scope, schedule and budget
• Proven experience facilitating diverse groups through complex topics
• Familiarity with industry standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance