Executive Advisor - Transportation at GHD

To solve complex challenges, you need to challenge the status-quo.

At GHD Advisory we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy and urbanization. 

Join a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability. 

Together, we’ll help create a future for generations to come.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an Executive Advisor – Transportation to join our Business Advisory team in Tampa, FL to provide expert guidance in management consulting services across infrastructure, facilities, virtual, and natural assets. In this pivotal role, you’ll collaborate closely with clients to understand their goals, assess current operations, and craft innovative strategies that elevate business performance and asset efficiency. From recommending actionable solutions to overseeing implementation, managing discrete projects, and delivering training and support, you’ll be instrumental in driving measurable success. If you're passionate about transforming transportation systems and empowering clients to achieve their objectives, we invite you to bring your expertise to GHD and help shape the future of advisory excellence.

Our Hybrid Work Model: 

Be part of the dynamic culture!  Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.

Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in: 

• Data Collection and Analysis: Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature.
• Workshop Facilitation: Facilitate complex process development workshops with subject-matter experts, drive agreement on process flows across functional areas, and document processes and activity workflows to develop clear and detailed process maps.
• Client Issue Clarification: Develop interview frameworks and protocols and conduct strategic interviews to gather information from senior managers and to clarify complex client issues.
• Client Issue Diagnosis: Conduct in-depth analysis of the strategic and operational information gathered through interviews and research to diagnose complex underlying business unit/function issues and problems and to inform the design of multiple solutions.
• Community of Practice Management: Contribute strongly on a strategically significant area to a community of practice in a defined area of expertise or consulting, or lead on an area of expertise or consulting practice, to contribute to thought leadership and to develop innovative practice among colleagues.
• Consulting Project Content Development: Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management, or bespoke and market-leading client reports—to complete the work of client team.
• Consulting Project Delivery: Deliver bespoke training, facilitate workshops with senior management, and provide advice and reports to address identified senior management issues. Manage the delivery quality of the work in own area of specialism to ensure maximum client satisfaction.
• Consulting Project/Program Design: Design the project/program architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic client interviews to develop multiple solutions that meet the client's stated requirements and address complex client issues.
• Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
• Project Management: Manage a portfolio of major projects in line with overall project management strategy.
• Business Advice: Manage corporate decision-making for business advisory within a function, ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives.
• Client & Customer Management (External): Manage key client and customer relationships. Likely to involve using account teams to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.

What you will bring to the team:

• Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in Regional Planning or Urban Systems
• 15+ years of experience working in the transportation industry
• 7+ years of experience providing professional consulting services for infrastructure projects
• PMP & CCMP certifications
• Able and willing to travel as needed

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As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.

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