Executive Advisor- Infrastructure Economics & Strategy

Description

• Market Development: Drive growth by identifying emerging trends, building strategic partnerships, and expanding GHD Advisory’s footprint in key sectors.
• Functional Strategy Formation: Lead the development and implementation of strategy for a significant area of responsibility, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities and ensuring integration with wider corporate strategy.
• Client Leadership: Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite and board-level stakeholders, providing insights that shape long-term business and policy decisions.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and manage stakeholders up to and including top management level, finding out their needs, issues, and concerns and reacting to them by leading and coordinating the development of stakeholder engagement plans to support the communication of business information and decisions.
• Corporate Strategy Shaping: Participate in the development of corporate strategy for a small local organization, applying functional expertise to test the viability of the strategy and contributing creative ideas and insights to support the strategy formation process.
• Capability Building: Mentor senior consultants and contribute to building organizational expertise in economics and strategy.
• Thought Leadership: Represent GHD in industry forums, publish insights on infrastructure economics and strategy, and contribute to shaping market discourse.
• Strategic Advisory: Lead high-level economic and strategy engagements for infrastructure clients, including market entry, investment prioritization, and commercial structuring.
• Strategy Formation and Implementation: Develop the strategy for a significant area of responsibility, such as a function, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities. Ensure the strategy is successfully implemented and meets medium-term business needs.
• Performance Management: Manage and report on the performance of the function/business area; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
• Corporate Social Responsibility/Integrity: Manage the provision of a strategic corporate social responsibility policy and services.
• Key Account Management: Maintain and grow relationships with top-tier clients, ensuring delivery of exceptional value and repeat engagements.
• Leadership and Direction: Set and communicate the strategy, along with the broad actions needed to implement it, for achieving the organization's mission, vision, and values within a function; inspire a large or diverse workforce to commit to these tenets and do extraordinary things to achieve the organization's business goals.
• Business Planning: Lead the development of annual and longer-term business plans for a significant function or small local business, ensuring alignment with strategy; quantify business outcomes, i.e., revenues or other key performance indicators (KPIs) and resource budgets (financial and headcount); and ensure integration of key activities or projects across the organization.
• Commercial Strategy: Oversee development of business cases, economic impact assessments, and strategic options analysis for major projects.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or Equivalent Level
• Exceptional analytical ability, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills; ability to influence at the highest levels.
• 15+ years in infrastructure economics, strategy consulting, or commercial advisory.
• Proven track record advising executive leadership and boards on strategic decisions.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure markets, regulatory frameworks, and investment drivers.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance