Manager - Infrastructure Advisory

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Overview
At Collier Project Leaders, we deliver capital project solutions to fulfill our clients’ needs across the built environment. The work we do makes a difference in communities and for the people who live there. We have a passion for it.

Our commitment to realizing our clients' vision inspires us to look beyond the immediate to the possibilities of what we can achieve together. We are 18,000 projects and counting – improving lives and helping shape the growth of sustainable, progressive and inclusive communities.

The Infrastructure Advisory team advises governments and businesses in the delivery of complex capital projects and programs. As part of our team, you'll provide expertise to clients on the design and delivery of transformative projects, program and commercial strategy approaches, and improvement of capital programs while ensuring project success within constrained budgets and challenging situations. You will work across many sectors providing services across the project life cycle from project feasibility, governance, procurement and transaction support, construction readiness, project delivery and operational readiness.

Your Role
As a Manager, you will act as an extension of public and private sector project teams undertaking the development and delivery of complex projects or investments. Your functions will include financial and commercial analysis of infrastructure projects, preparation of procurement strategies and processes, financial RFQ and RFP proposal development and evaluation, negotiation of commercial agreements and other advisory services related to best practices in the Canadian infrastructure advisory field.

Responsibilities

Lead drafting reports and information documents of a financial nature, business cases, and analyses related to various procurement methods

Coordinate the preparation of proposals for multiple concurrent projects

Oversee the development and review of complex financial models

Facilitate stakeholder engagement and community consultation activities to identify project scope, objectives and community needs

Participate in the development of the strategic planning, granting and financial structuring of capital and infrastructure projects

Participate in large‑scale and complex procurements of infrastructure including development and evaluation of procurement documents and information memorandums

Advise clients on best practices in the management of capital and infrastructure projects, and support them in the implementation of these recommendations

Define and analyze business cases, growth planning for capital projects, needs assessment and conducting procurement options analyses

Provide financial analysis and funding strategy recommendations

Conduct benchmarking and best‑practice research analyses and state‑of‑the‑market studies

Perform due diligence and detailed analysis to develop comprehensive strategies and business plans in support of client investments

Apply exceptional writing skills to prepare reports for a broad variety of assignments

Contribute to winning proposals and participate in compelling client presentations

Qualifications

University degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Finance, Engineering, or a related mix of academic and practical experience in the built environment

5+ years of experience in a similar advisory role, consulting to public and private sector clients

A broad consulting skill set including strong presentation and stakeholder facilitation, business case and report writing, organizational and analytical skills

Strong communication, presentation and writing skills, including the ability to understand and effectively summarize complex documents

Proven technical and analytical capabilities including financial analysis and financial modelling skills (particularly with project finance discounted cash flow models)

Knowledge of various delivery methodologies (i.e. DBB, DB, CM, PDB, P3, etc.) and procurement processes

Confidence, desire and ability to learn all aspects of infrastructure sectors in a short timeframe

Excels in a dynamic and…