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WSP in the U.S. · 1 day ago

Vice President - Transaction & Commercial Advisory

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$148K/yr - $273K/yr

12+ years exp

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms, dedicated to serving local communities. They are seeking a Vice President to lead the Transaction & Commercial Advisory team, focusing on integrated commercial, technical, and transaction advisory assignments in the social infrastructure sector.

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Responsibilities

Leading projects and advising clients to provide integrated commercial, technical, and transaction advisory assignments in the Social Infrastructure, Water, Energy and other emerging sectors. Responsible for coordinating the production of business plans and due diligence reports, ensuring consistency and quality

Develop and manage relationships with existing and new clients. Pursue opportunities and lead the conversion into projects

Representing WSP at client meetings – the candidate needs to demonstrate a good range of client management skills

Leading the analysis and preparing high quality reports, conveying complex commercial and technical issues in a simple form

Coordinating project teams and assist with management, training and development of the wider team

Qualification

Social Infrastructure expertiseTransaction advisory experienceClient management skillsProject finance knowledgeSoftware proficiencyTeam management experienceTechnical report writingMulti-project coordinationAdditional language skillsCommunication skillsRelationship development

Required

Bachelor's degree level in engineering, with a master's degree in project finance

12+ years of relevant post education experience in discipline, and in a management consulting or client advisory capacity

Demonstrable track record of successfully delivering a number of complex and/or high profile social infrastructure consulting projects in the last 5 years is essential. Water and Energy projects' experience is a plus

Experience working in a leading engineering consultancy firm, or other specialist consultancy

Experience in managing teams and coordinating delivery of workstreams to tight deadlines

Strong spoken and written communication skills in English is required and additional language skills would be desirable. Arabic is a plus

Ability to develop client-facing relationships, with confidence communicating effectively with senior management teams of clients

A comprehensive knowledge of all major relevant software packages (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.)

Preferred

Master's Degree is preferred

Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable