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This Opportunity

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are currently recruiting a **Vice President** to play a significant role in the future success of our **Transaction & Commercial Advisory team** and the wider advisory team. The candidate should have a broad commercial understanding in the social infrastructure sector. Water, power, and energy sector-experience will be major advantages. With extensive experience of working with infrastructure investors, lenders, international finance corporations and financial advisors. We would expect the candidate to have good knowledge of residential projects, schools, hospitals, roads, water treatment and desalination, power stations, wind farms, PV, and energy ... etc. Specialization in one or more sub-sector(s) is an advantage.

The candidate will also be able to demonstrate good general technical, economic and regulatory understanding in the sector and have a proven track record in leading transaction & commercial assignments and managing teams.

In today’s world it’s important to work for a company that has clear purpose, giving back to communities and supporting what is truly important in the world.

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To find out more about our Strategic Advisory click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP: https://www.wsp.com/en-ae/hubs/advisory

Your Impact

+ Leading projects and advising clients to provide integrated commercial, technical, and transaction advisory assignments in the Social Infrastructure, Water, Energy and other emerging sectors. Responsible for coordinating the production of business plans and due diligence reports, ensuring consistency and quality.

+ Develop and manage relationships with existing and new clients. Pursue opportunities and lead the conversion into projects.

+ Representing WSP at client meetings – the candidate needs to demonstrate a good range of client management skills.

+ Leading the analysis and preparing high quality reports, conveying complex commercial and technical issues in a simple form.

+ Coordinating project teams and assist with management, training and development of the wider team.

The Advisory team has a strong track record of supporting clients at the early stage of projects such as feasibility plans, market forecasts as well as technical assessment of complex projects. Our key clients cover a wide range of different organizations in the private and public sectors. Key clients include developers, financial institutions (pension funds, investors and financiers), operators (ports, rail, buses, highways and mobility) and wider industry.

We are regularly involved from project origination through to completion, as well as during asset optimization and modernization and/or expansion of existing facilities. Our front-end consultancy is supported by 74,000 technical specialists globally. Our offer includes transaction services (including PPP), investment advisory, market studies, demand forecasting, technical and financial feasibility and management consultancy services

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s degree level in engineering, with a master’s degree in project finance.

+ 12+ years of relevant post education experience in discipline, and in a management consulting or client advisory capacity.

+ Demonstrable track record of successfully delivering a number of complex and/or high profile social infrastructure consulting projects in the last 5 years is essential. Water and Energy projects’ experience is a plus.

+ Experience working in a leading engineering consultancy firm, or other specialist consultancy

+ Experience in managing teams and coordinating delivery of workstreams to tight deadlines

+ Strong spoken and written communication skills in English is required and additional language skills would be desirable. Arabic is a plus.

+ Ability to develop client-facing relationships, with confidence communicating effectively with senior management teams of clients

+ A comprehensive knowledge of all major relevant software packages (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PowerBI, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

+ Master’s Degree is preferred.

+ Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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): $147,500 - $272,580

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.