Assistant Vice President, Advisory Services

Assistant Vice President, Advisory Services

Join WSP in the U.S. to lead Advisory Services projects in the Seattle, WA market. The role invites a motivated individual to join our Business Transformation service area, supporting clients across transportation, buildings, energy, water, environment, and power sectors with strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis, and project delivery.

The WSP US Advisory practice is dedicated to transforming the business of infrastructure across multiple sectors, providing the full range of strategic planning, organizational development, economic and financial analysis and project development and delivery services supported by WSP’s engineering expertise.

• Lead complex and large‑scale Advisory Services projects, ensuring project management, budget, work product, quality control and financial performance meet company standards.
• Accountable for overall project performance, including timely completion, financial results, and quality of work product.
• Foster a “trusted advisor” service and future‑ready solutions for clients.
• Work directly with public or private sector clients to analyze and model business processes, implement organizational strategy and business analytics, and identify opportunities for performance improvement.
• Evaluate current state across people, processes and technology.
• Recommend data‑driven improvements to achieve future state.
• Develop and execute action‑oriented improvement roadmaps.
• Translate client concerns into actionable scopes, sequences of activities and associated deliverables.
• Apply industry‑standard practices, business process mapping notation and methodologies.
• Understand capital delivery processes, particularly in transit and rail, roadways, or power industry contexts.
• Guide ambiguous environments and conduct complex client conversations to define scope and keep projects on track.
• Manage project team and timelines, work under deadlines, and influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Perform complex qualitative and quantitative analysis, document findings, and present outcomes to client executives.
• Collaborate with junior and senior team members to deliver excellent client services.
• Lead client meetings and interact independently to understand and address strategic needs for major capital projects.
• Drive technical excellence and high‑quality deliverables on projects and proposals.
• Contribute to national business development from opportunity identification through proposal, interview and negotiations.
• Provide leadership for proposals and project scopes, pricing, budgeting, and performance metrics for the Advisory Services discipline.
• Serve as an Advisory Services representative to external entities, including federal, state and local agencies, clients, subcontractors, and industry groups.
• Build a professional network across industry to support business development, marketing, proposals and cross‑selling of WSP capabilities.
• Exercise responsible & ethical decision‑making regarding company funds and conduct, adhering to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience in capital delivery for transit and rail, roadways, and/or power industries.
• Experience designing and implementing process improvement practices.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and high emotional intelligence.
• Proven consulting experience in developing organizational capability and performance improvement.
• Hands‑on leader, collaborator, individual contributor and strong team player, depending on context.
• Self‑starter who can deliver efficiently.
• Project Management experience, able to manage effort within scope, schedule and budget.

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

Executive

Full‑time

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