Project Manager - Management Consulting
Many of the world’s top engineers and scientists come together in our Water business because they view a community’s interaction with water a bit differently—as a single holistic system, rather than unconnected networks divided by jurisdictional boundaries. Working throughout the hydrologic cycle, we are delivering sustainable solutions to make sure water is where it should be and available when needed. Our experts guide our work with scientific rigor, an innovative spirit, and a vision for growth. Every day, we help communities improve, reuse, and protect this precious resource for future generations. By 2025 we’re hiring 2,000 people (like you) to join our team. Grow with us, H2O+U.
Your Opportunity
We’re a dynamic technological team that implements best practice asset management principles to both local governments and utilities. Our team focuses on solutions that rely on an asset inventory that is maintained in a geodatabase. We utilize cutting edge technologies by deploying and integrating the following suite of software packages.
- Cityworks
- Lucity EAM
- ArcGIS
- And more….
We are made up of GIS experts, data scientists, information technology specialists, asset management experts and utility subject matter experts.
We are a quickly growing national team that is seeking talent to help meet current demands and help to grow our services. Our team works closely together in an environment where each member brings both specialization, passion, and purpose. Our end goal is nothing short of providing exceptional outcomes in the enterprise asset management arena.
Your Key Responsibilities
- This position is an external client facing position with our Management Consulting Team.
- As a Project Manager within the Management Consulting Team, you will be supporting asset, organizational, financial, infrastructure funding, economic, and technology consulting services to local governments and utilities in North America.
- The successful candidate will:
- Develop quantitative models and work products, with limited oversight, to support client business challenges across multiple industries for a variety of highly complex issues; as well as direct and train junior staff in these areas.
- Serve as a primary member of multiple teams at client meetings, including interactive use of analytical tools and facilitating workshops; as well as direct and train junior staff in these areas.
- Work dynamically with project teams to identify best-fit solutions to complex business, strategic, infrastructure, and operational issues, that involve elevated risk.
- Lead the project team in interactive meetings with our clients to identify and analyze issues affecting their organizations and key stakeholders.
- Maintain and grow client relationships and lead business development efforts in responding to client requests, RFQs, and RFPs.
- Serve as an independent reviewer of analysis prepared by peers or junior staff to ensure technical accuracy and appropriateness of methods and tools being utilized as well as solutions being evaluated.
- In many cases, serve as the project manager for client engagements, ensuring delivery of high-quality services on time and within budget.
- Meet performance goals and objectives as assigned, with respect to client-specific demands, stated delivery milestones, quality standards, project management framework, mentoring of junior staff, and all required training activities.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with, acquiring, and analyzing large data sets.
- Working knowledge of and interest in local government organizational structure, budgeting / reporting, infrastructure funding, and types of services they provide is required.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel including quantitative modeling and analysis required.
- Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.
- Experience with additional data analysis tools is a plus, including but not limited to Access, Power BI/Tableau, GIS, SQL, Python, R, etc.
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
- Capable of presenting/sharing analyses in an interactive work setting while being able to make adjustments in a live setting.
- Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong sense of Team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire Team.
- Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
- Willing to travel as needed. In the first year, travel may be up to 25%. As you develop your skills for success and become a crucial part of multiple project teams, travel requirements may increase.
- Requires a satisfactory driving record.
Traits and Attributes of Top Performers
- Intellectual curiosity: Top performers are driven to ask why things work or don’t work currently and how we might address this—even if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom. We need bold thinkers willing to challenge assumptions and develop new solutions.
- Lifelong learners: This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine math, modeling, and an understanding of public perception to solve complex problems. There are little to no “routine” answers. The most successful candidates have a genuine desire to continually learn to solve our clients’ problems and improve the communities we serve.
- Analytical problem solvers: Top performers understand (or are capable of quickly learning) how different factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding financial impacts. They understand how to make appropriate simplifying assumptions and how to model complex systems accurately.
- Collaboration and co-creation: Successful candidates will have the ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal.
Creativity and adaptability: Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation. - Strategic and systematic thinking: Top performers will be able to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system, and building intellectual frameworks to guide decisions, solve problems, support innovation, and inform analysis and action.
- Entrepreneurial mindset: Strong candidates will both seek and thrive on all opportunities and risks; Top performers will leverage tenacity and optimism to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies and create new value for clients.
- Sincere desire to please our clients: Top performers seem to have an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables, and they realize that providing rigorous, error-free, and unbiased advisory services is a critical step in ensuring the client’s long-term sustainability. Top performers draw on this deeper motivation, as it takes time and effort to drive change with our clients.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, mathematics, finance, economics, statistics, data science, engineering, accounting, or related fields are required. Master’s Degree is a plus.
- Minimum 7 years total post-undergraduate working experience (but preference for 10+ years) in management consulting, economics, pricing, infrastructure funding, financial analysis, and/or working for local government agencies in these areas.
- Knowledge of and experience with accounting statements, pricing, risk, financial planning, and performance metrics/tracking,
- Direct work experience/history with local government agencies and financial statements.
- Elements of project management experience, including preparing and managing project scope, schedule, team activities, communication, and deliverables.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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