Lead Consultant, Advisory Services

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 a Lead Consultant, Advisory Services. This position is located in Seattle, WA.

Your Impact

• Support Advisory Services projects within the company, ensuring project management, budget, work product, quality control and financial performance meet company standard

• Develop high quality technical and professional deliverables on projects and proposals

• Direct tasks for deliverables on projects and provide guidance to junior staff

• Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis

• Lead client meetings and develop trusted relationships

• 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.

• Navigate ambiguous environments and complex conversations with clients and leadership to define scope and keep the project on track.

• Manage project and project team, including time management and working to deadlines.

• Work in a matrixed environment and experience with influencing without authority.

• Manage scope, schedule and budget for smaller projects

• Contribute to thought leadership and subject matter collateral development

• Keep up-to-date with technical knowledge of current and emerging practices

• Seek opportunities to serve as mentor to junior staff

• Lead or significantly contribute to proposal preparation and marketing activities

• Proactively identify technical issues and take actions to mitigate risk

• Adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.

• Experience in designing and implementing process improvement practices.

• 7 to 10 years of directly relevant experience, particularly capital delivery for transit and rail, roadways and/or power industry.

• Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability and performance improvement from within an organization.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.

• Hands‑on leader, collaborator, individual contributor and strong team player, depending on context.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience in consulting or a comparable role in developing organizational capability, performance improvement and/or process improvement from within an organization.

• Understanding of government agency operations.

• Familiarity with technological solutions and tools that support automation and decision making within the public works environment.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

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