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WSP in the U.S. · 7 hours ago

Assistant Vice President, Advisory Services

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$123K/yr - $219K/yr

10+ years exp

WSP is a leading engineering and professional services firm dedicated to transforming the infrastructure business across various sectors. The Assistant Vice President, Advisory Services will lead complex projects, ensuring quality and financial performance while providing strategic guidance to clients in the public and private sectors.

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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

Qualification

Capital DeliveryProcess ImprovementProject ManagementOrganizational StrategyBusiness AnalyticsLean Six-SigmaPMP CertificationCommunicationInterpersonal SkillsTeam CollaborationSelf-Starter