Assistant Vice President, Advisory Services

WSP•Seattle, WA

About The Position

This Opportunity The WSP US Advisory practice is dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure across the transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power sectors. We provide our clients with the full range of strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis and project development and delivery services supported by WSP's engineering expertise in all infrastructure markets. With changing economic conditions, evolving government priorities, aging assets and emerging technologies, clients rely on the Advisory Services team for its unique combination of infrastructure delivery expertise and management consulting leadership. We help clients develop, procure, manage, finance and invest in infrastructure assets to successfully deliver programs and projects. We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Business Transformation service area. This individual will join a group of trusted advisors in delivering business and operational solutions while helping to shape the future growth of the nation’s built environment. WSP is currently initiating a search for an Assistant Vice President, Advisory Services . This position is located in Seattle, WA . Your Impact 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. Accountable for overall project performance, included timely completion, financial performance, quality of work product. Foster “trusted advisor” service and future-ready solutions for clients. 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. Ability to evaluate current state across people, processes and ideally technology. Recommend data driven improvements to achieve future state. Develop and drive to completion action-oriented improvement roadmaps. Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables. Familiarity with industry standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies. 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. Guide and navigate ambiguous environments and have complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track. Ability to manage project and project team, including time management and working to deadlines. Ability to work in a matrixed environment and experience with influencing without authority. Independently perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis, document findings, and present project outcomes to client executives Work collaboratively with junior and senior team members to deliver to deliver excellent client services Lead client meetings and interact directly and independently with clients to understand and address strategic needs for major capital projects. Take initiative in developing technical excellence in providing high quality level performance Produce high-quality, professional deliverables independently on projects and proposals. Contribute and lead various national business development efforts end-to-end – from opportunity identification, proposal development, interview and negotiations. Provide leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the Advisory Services discipline. 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. Build professional network across industry to support business development opportunities, marketing, proposals, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities. 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
10+ years experience in directly relevant endeavors, particularly capital delivery for transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry.
Experience in designing and implementing process improvement practices.
Strong written and oral communication skills
Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence
Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability and performance improvement from within an organization
Hands-on leader, collaborator, individual contributor and strong team player, depending on context
Self-starter, who can get things done efficiently
Project Management experience - able to manage efforts within scope, schedule and budget

Nice To Haves

Proven experience facilitating diverse groups through complex topics
Familiarity with technological solutions and tools that support automation and decision making within the public works environment
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Lean Six-Sigma certification (or similar)
Prosci certification (or similar)

Responsibilities

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.
Accountable for overall project performance, included timely completion, financial performance, quality of work product.
Foster “trusted advisor” service and future-ready solutions for clients.
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.
Ability to evaluate current state across people, processes and ideally technology.
Recommend data driven improvements to achieve future state.
Develop and drive to completion action-oriented improvement roadmaps.
Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables.
Familiarity with industry standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies.
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.
Guide and navigate ambiguous environments and have complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track.
Ability to manage project and project team, including time management and working to deadlines.
Ability to work in a matrixed environment and experience with influencing without authority.
Independently perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis, document findings, and present project outcomes to client executives
Work collaboratively with junior and senior team members to deliver to deliver excellent client services
Lead client meetings and interact directly and independently with clients to understand and address strategic needs for major capital projects.
Take initiative in developing technical excellence in providing high quality level performance
Produce high-quality, professional deliverables independently on projects and proposals.
Contribute and lead various national business development efforts end-to-end – from opportunity identification, proposal development, interview and negotiations.
Provide leadership for proposals and project work scopes, pricing, budget, and performance metrics for the Advisory Services discipline.
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.
Build professional network across industry to support business development opportunities, marketing, proposals, and cross-selling of other WSP capabilities.
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.

Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

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