AddressJoin a global professional services leader, committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and communities.
GHD Advisory group has a phenomenal opportunity for a Senior Advisor to join, support and drive forward our Business Transformationservices.
You will support and lead the delivery of solutions to some of the most challenging and exciting problems within the sector, from Rail and Highways to Telecoms and Future Energy. Experience or a passion in pursuing economic and community improvements in infrastructure is key.
Your responsibilities will vary across the entire project lifecycle, and you will be expected to get involved in, and take ownership of, internal team initiatives. We embrace a start-up mentality and pace, with the support and resources of a global corporate. You will work in an agile and evolving environment and be encouraged to bring fresh ideas based on your previous experience, contributing to the crafting of our team from both a cultural and a technical perspective. In return, we will support and encourage you to develop your capability and experience across many sectors, giving you the freedom to explore and pioneer your interests across a broad project and client base.
This position offers the opportunity to lead a varied range of innovative projects focused on transformation and organisational change, supporting the growth of our clients and delivering complex transformation programmes and helping build our capability to deliver extraordinary outcomes for our clients.
What you will be doing
- Use knowledge and skills in Project Management, Business Analysis and Change Management to deliver projects in the built environment sector delivering meaningful change to clients and society.
- Depending on your background you can be expected to be leading on the delivery of client projects in one of the following areas:
- Project management or PMO,
- Developing and implementing business change approaches to embedding new ways of working,
- Undertaking process and business analysis activities in support of a wider change and transformation effort,
- Developing and implementing organisational operating models
- Lead client discussions to understand their challenges, shaping solutions to meet these challenges while leveraging our in-house expertise.
- Lead the development and evolution of solution offerings, integrating leading thinking and aligning these to client demands and other GHD Service Offerings
- Leading the development of opportunities and proposals with clients including developing commercial sound pricing and staffing models
- Collaborate across disciplines to deliver creative solutions to client challenges.
- Play a key role on your team by developing and delivering presentations and written deliverables and organising and facilitating client meetings and workshops.
- Establish positive relationships with clients and peers that build credibility, foster your support network, and empower career development.
- Cultivate knowledge of our clients’ business models and increase your role in engagements and been seen as a subject matter expert to advise clients in your field.
- Coaching, mentor and support the development of more junior members of your team.
- Be a part of a growing practice and bring your thoughts ideas and passion as part of the group.
About you:
We would love to hear from you if you can bring proven, demonstrable experience with reoccurring success in any of the above areas. As a consulting role, we are looking for effective problem solvers and communicators.
Personal Characteristics:
- You are an effective collaborator and communicator who can work well with a range of clients.
- You are inquisitive and eager to improve and develop your skillset.
- You are motivated in being part of a growing team that is building a business.
- You are comfortable to challenge hierarchy and present your own ideas.
- You have an open, inclusive, collaborative working style and understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
- You’re an analytical thinker with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable chunks, can analyse information, identify patterns, and evaluate potential solutions systematically.
- Effective facilitator competent to organise and run client workshops.
Previous experience:
- 4+ years of relevant work experience advising, shaping and delivering engagements in one of
- Project/Programme Management and PMO
- Organisation Change Management
- Process and Business Analysis
- Organisational design/operating model
- Team management experience
- The ability to quickly recognise different personal communication styles and leverage those styles to build consensus and collaborate effectively.
- A proven capability to follow a structured approach when deciphering complex problems, and synthesising results.
- The ability to establish credibility with clients and peers.
- Communications and collaboration skills, and the ability to draw on them in difficult, ambiguous, and fast-moving situations.
- Experience working on projects that cross into multiple disciplines and industries.
- Experience working in or within the built environment and infrastructure environments is a plus.
ABOUT US
Let's put your ideas into action.
If you see the world differently and are driven by a desire to make real change, together we'll make it happen. Everybody at GHD has their own commitment, and we’re here to support yours.
Your success is our success, and together we'll make a lasting impact on our world for generations to come.
Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.
That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.
See where your commitment could take you.
That’s the #PowerOfCommitment
Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
