Vice President, Management Consultancy

About the role

This Opportunity Provides senior leadership as part of the Business Transformation team within Management Consulting in Advisory Services. This position is responsible for shaping and growing client relationships, originating and selling work, leading high-quality delivery, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and advancing strategy, operations improvement, organizational change, and transformation initiatives for public- and private-sector clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead Business Transformation and Management Consulting engagements, ensuring teams understand objectives, scope, deliverables, timelines, budgets, and quality expectations.
• Originate, sell, and deliver advisory and consulting work by developing trusted client relationships, identifying opportunities, shaping solutions, leading pursuits, and supporting revenue and growth objectives.
• Provide executive-level strategic advice to clients; lead client presentations, workshops, interviews, and leadership meetings with confidence and credibility.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams in developing high-quality deliverables, including organizational assessments, operating model recommendations, transformation roadmaps, business cases, implementation plans, governance frameworks, and executive-ready reports.
• Serve as an Advisory Services representative and liaison to clients, partner organizations, industry groups, public agencies, subcontractors, and other external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain a strong client base for Advisory Services, including identifying additional business development opportunities, cross-selling WSP capabilities, and strengthening account relationships.
• Remain current in management consulting, organizational strategy, change management, digital transformation, governance, program delivery, and related advisory practices.
• 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.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, public administration, engineering, planning, organizational development, economics, or a closely related discipline.
• 12+ years of relevant post-education experience in management consulting, advisory services, business transformation, organizational strategy, operations improvement, change management, program delivery, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading complex client engagements and multidisciplinary teams, including work planning, facilitation, deliverable development, quality review, financial management, and client communications.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills to effectively, persuasively, and tactfully interact with clients, executives, project teams, and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strong executive presence, facilitation skills, and ability to communicate complex ideas clearly through presentations, workshops, reports, and written recommendations.
• Strategic lateral thinking and strong analytical skills with attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to prioritize responsibilities across multiple pursuits and engagements.
• Able to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including senior management, clients, partners, and company-wide staff, including those with whom no formal hierarchical relationship exists.
• Ability to quickly adapt to change and demonstrate flexibility to meet project, client, and business needs.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a senior consulting, practice leadership, account leadership, or client-facing advisory role.
• Demonstrated success selling, shaping, and delivering transformation, strategy, organizational design, change management, governance, operating model, or program improvement engagements.
• Experience working with infrastructure, transportation, public agency, utilities, capital program, or other complex asset-intensive clients.
• Established market presence, professional network, or client relationships that support growth of Management Consulting and Advisory Services work.
• Experience mentoring, developing, and growing consulting teams, including supporting career development and building delivery capability.
• Familiarity with recognized change management, project management, process improvement, organizational assessment, or strategy frameworks and methods.
• Relevant professional certification such as PMP, Prosci/CCMP, Lean Six Sigma, PE, AICP, or similar credential.
• Demonstrated ability to sell and deliver consulting work, build trusted client relationships, develop a pipeline of opportunities, and contribute to revenue growth.

Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $172,800 - $255,000

About WSP

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