Global Advisory - Business Operations Manager

Job Description

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The Global Advisory – Business Operations Manager will play a pivotal role in supporting the Global Director team to strengthen and expand WSP’s global advisory capability. The role will drive the establishment of a unified global operating model, ensuring seamless coordination, knowledge sharing, and alignment across regions.

This position will act as a strategic enabler — fostering collaboration with regional advisory leads, building robust operational platforms, and supporting the development of new service lines and toolkits. The incumbent will also contribute to shaping the future vision for Global Advisory, including defining structures, performance frameworks, and value propositions for teams worldwide.

Through close partnership with Global Finance, Marcoms, and leadership teams, the role will oversee commercial performance tracking, communications, and strategic initiatives such as digital enablement, benchmarking, and the creation of Centres of Excellence. Ultimately, the position will ensure that the Global Advisory function operates efficiently, consistently, and with strong visibility across all markets.

Responsibilities

• Support the Global Director, Advisory to drive further growth globally and build upon our impressive 10,500 FTE baseline, with teams already offering services across all our end markets and sectors
• Build solid relationships with all Advisory Regional Leads and ensuring that all regions are actively supported to offer new services
• Design and establish a new operating platform for Global Advisory, including CV and credential database and general knowledge sharing
• Support the strategic focus areas to understand their baseline, vision, key account management and view of commoditised vs premium services
• Create tool-kits that regions can use to launch new services, including methodology and approaches, templates, example deliverables etc;
• Alongside Global Director, develop a vision for Global Advisory, the model for centralised versus de-centralised teams – global resource pooling versus regional pooling etc;
• Conduct benchmarking assessments on Big 4 and other management consultancies
• Design new employee value proposition for Global Advisory team members including recognition and reward mechanisms
• Work alongside Global Finance, Planning & Accounting teams to track Global Advisory against budgeted commercial KPI’s set by the Global Leadership Team
• Drive the creation of centres of excellence for Global Advisory e.g. Economics Advisory, Digital Advisory etc; and set-up the required operating platforms accordingly
• Actively look for opportunities to digitally enable teams e.g. proposal production, service provision etc;
• Work with Global Marcoms to produce marketing and communications regarding the Global Advisory value proposition, showcase projects and teams to raise team profile internally and externally
• Prepare communication materials for Global Director for Townhalls, Global Leadership Team Meetings and other external business briefings
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Finance, or a related discipline; a Master’s degree is preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience, including at least 5 years in a consulting or professional services environment.
• Prior experience within a Big Four or leading management consultancy is highly desirable.
• Proven track record in business operations, project management, or PMO functions, with the ability to oversee cross-regional initiatives.
• Strong understanding of financial management, governance frameworks, and cross-functional coordination.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to engage and influence at executive levels.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and collaboration platforms such as SharePoint and Power BI.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a global, fast-paced environment, balancing strategic priorities with operational delivery.
  
  
  

Soft skills:

• Excellent communication skills, ability to create strong concise messages and create powerful stories.
• Strategic thinker, able to create a vision for the optimal operating models but also able implement.
• Ability to influence rather than manage and direct, hence encourage global teams to think differently and utilise global benchmarks / world class ways of working.
• Strong project management and coordination skills to extract and pull required information and data.
  
  
  

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