Strategy Director | Construction, Projects & Assets. Forensic & Litigation Consulting
About The Company
FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm, dedicated to helping organizations navigate and manage a diverse range of complex issues and business challenges. Our expertise covers the spectrum of Corporate Finance & Restructuring, Economic Consulting, Forensic & Litigation Consulting, Strategic Communications and Technology. We are a company of more than 7,000 professionals with annual revenues in excess of US$2.8 billion, with offices located in every major business center in the world.
Our professionals are some of the most experienced leaders in their fields and advise across a range of industries. Our clients engage us for high-stakes concerns or emerging opportunities that require specialized expertise, and over the past two decades we have been engaged to work behind the headlines on some of the biggest news stories to date.
FTI Consulting is a fast growing and vibrant place to work. Steered by our values of Integrity, Creativity, Achievement, Empathy and Respect, its meritocratic culture invites both collaboration and healthy debate. We are large enough to be trusted by our clients to solve their biggest issues and yet small enough to know our colleagues on a personal level enabling better team working and a supportive culture to develop your career goals and ambitions.
About the Role
FTI’s Construction, Projects, & Assets Practice works with a wide array of sectors around the world from infrastructure to energy to petrochemicals covering a variety of topics ranging from delay and quantum analysis to organizational transformation and competitiveness improvement.
We are seeking a Senior Director to enter our fast-growing team to support our clients on their most pressing challenges associated with asset management from project conception to asset construction to competitiveness improvement and futureproofing of the capital project pipeline.
What You’ll Do
A Senior Director is responsible for providing clients with guidance in various spheres of business, including corporate strategy, business transformation, and digital and innovation capabilities across the pillars of people, process, data, and technology. These responsibilities include performing functions to identify and solve complex business, organizational, and operational challenges while defining and improving associated processes. A Senior Director frequently leads engagements or complex workstreams within larger engagements – managing client expectations, billing, resources required for delivery, and other day to day operational activities. Additionally, Senior Directors play a pivotal role in the business development process, working to develop proposals including scope of work, success metrics, staffing models, and more.
Tasks may include:
- Leading CP&A Consulting projects across the practice that may include strategic plans, organizational assessments, capability maturity assessments of project and asset management capabilities, market analysis, digital transformation, asset management, and organizational change management
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance on a range of projects and/or asset management functions including growth capital, sustaining capital, construction, maintenance, shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages, decommissioning, etc.
- Building relationships with all appropriate stakeholders and key leads in various areas to ensure overall project success
- Providing subject matter expertise to drive best practice-based solutions on Project and Portfolio Management processes and/or Project Management Information Systems
- Performing project delivery process assessments, define requirements, and develop processes for project and/or portfolio strategy and planning, project risk management, project management, and supporting functional areas
- Developing client-facing materials with Microsoft Office products, using skill in PowerPoint to turn textual information into compelling and cohesive stories, articulating an argument and using easily understood graphics
- Developing engagement specific approaches to Training and Organizational Change Management
- Seeking for new, different, and innovative ways to leverage existing and new consulting capabilities to improve performance, improve business results, and create buy-in and commitment within client organizations – pushing the boundaries and capabilities of our integrated delivery teams
- Mentoring, coaching, and training CP&A Consultants, Senior Consultants, Directors and Senior Directors and supervising activity performed either as Engagement Lead or Coach
- Working with regional and global CP&A Leadership team in developing business goals for focus areas, industries, and geographies and executing strategic plan to achieve them
- Representing FTI Consulting on panels, webinars, speaking engagements, etc. as a Subject Matter Expert in core focus areas including Strategic Advisory, Management Consulting, Technology Enablement & Data Intelligence, Portfolio, Program and Project Management Office (3PMO), and Asset Management
How You’ll Grow
We are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and we have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. We aim to promote continuous learning and individual skills development through on-the-job learning, self-guided professional development courses and certifications. You’ll be assigned a dedicated coach to mentor, guide and support you through regular coaching sessions and serve as an advocate for your professional growth.
As you progress through your career at FTI Consulting, we offer tailored programs for critical professional milestones to ensure you are prepared and empowered to take on your next role.
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Basic Qualifications
We are seeking a candidate with a minimum of a Bachelor of Science/Engineering in one of the following fields: Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or from an accredited university.
Required Experience
We would like you to be able to hit the ground running - therefore you will at least 10 years of Strategy consulting experience in traditional project support/manufacturing/consulting roles in premier consultancy.
Given the nature of the projects that we have underway a successful candidate, should also two or more low- to medium-sized projects with minimal to no supervision, while also actively driving business development to grow the practice area.
Our work is highly focused on translating complex and opaque data into actionable plans for our clients and customers, to this end, high-level fluency is required in the following digital tools:
- Microsoft Excel (with VBA/Python programming skills a significant plus)
- Microsoft PowerPoint (using advanced Add-in functionalities to maximize presentation quality)
- Data historian systems (e.g., PI, Uniformance)
- Primavera (or equivalent mechanical planning/scheduling platforms)
Successful candidates must be able to read, write, and communicate fluently in English with significant priority given to bilingual candidates having fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese.
Our Benefits
Apart from the well-structured career path and excellent team environment, our employees enjoy a variety of perks and benefits.
We offer a competitive benefits and wellbeing programmed including private medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, income protection, flex critical illness cover, employer pension contributions, holiday buy, discounted gym membership, interest free travel loans, paid volunteer hours and corporate matching for charitable donations, and much more.
About FTI Consulting
What makes us unique? With more than 8,000 employees located in offices in every corner of the globe, we are the firm our clients call when their most important issues are at stake. Regardless of what level you are, you will have the opportunity to work alongside and learn from top experts in your field on high-profile engagements that impact history. Our culture is collaborative, and we value diversity, recognition, development and making a difference in our communities.
FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been recognized as a Best Firm to Work For by Consulting magazine and one of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes. For more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com and connect with us on Twitter (@FTIConsulting), Facebook and LinkedIn.
FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
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