Associate Transformation Consultant (Transformation Advisory)

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

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 help clients across the built environment navigate an increasingly complex set of challenges, from climate adaptation and resource pressures to societal change and AI adoption. As an Associate Transformation Consultant, you will be a trusted adviser to senior client stakeholders, leading projects and helping clients tackle complex organisational challenges.

Your responsibilities will include:

Client and project delivery – 75% of the time

• Leading the development and delivery of complex transformation programmes, translating organisational challenges into practical, impactful change interventions.
• Diagnosing barriers to organisational performance and change, including culture, behaviours, sustainability, resilience and digital adoption, and turning evidence into clear priorities and recommendations.
• Designing and setting up future-ready organisations, shaping operating models, structures, processes, systems and ways of working to deliver sustainable outcomes.
• Leading high-quality consulting engagements and building lasting client capability, establishing effective project teams, managing delivery to time and budget, and using facilitation, coaching, leadership development and knowledge transfer to embed change.

Business development – 15% of the time

• Building trusted client relationships, identifying opportunities to create additional value and grow our work with clients.
• Helping shape and grow our services, developing methodologies and collateral, connecting clients with wider WSP capabilities, and representing the team internally and externally.
• Leading proposals and bids, shaping compelling solutions, developing commercial approaches and coordinating high-quality submissions, often to tight timescales.
• Building our market presence, contributing to thought leadership and promoting WSP’s capabilities internally and externally.

Team and personal development – 10% of the time

• Investing in your own professional development, continuously building your expertise in organisational transformation and our client’s key challenges.
• Supporting the development and progression of colleagues, acting as a People Manager and providing coaching, mentoring and constructive feedback through project delivery.
• Supporting the growth of our team, contributing to recruitment, interviewing, onboarding and the integration of new colleagues.
• Helping build a supportive, inclusive and high-performing team culture, sharing knowledge and contributing to the development of others.
• Contributing to communities of practice and knowledge sharing across WSP, strengthening connections and sharing learning across the wider business.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Systems thinking with the ability to navigate complexity, connect different perspectives and identify interventions that deliver multiple outcomes.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with confidence engaging senior clients and communicating complex ideas clearly.
• Experience leading complex transformation projects and multidisciplinary teams, managing delivery and commercials, bringing together diverse expertise and making sound judgements independently.
• Commercial and business development experience, including identifying opportunities, growing existing work and contributing to proposals and bids.
• Technical expertise in one or more transformation capabilities, such as operating model and organisational design, organisational change, leadership and engagement, behavioural change, process improvement or data-led decision-making.
• Experience working across infrastructure and the built environment, ideally spanning local or national government, property, water, energy and transport sectors.
• Relevant qualifications in organisational change, psychology and behavioural sciences, business management or related disciplines.
• Desirable: understanding of WSP’s Future Ready themes such as climate resilience, resource stewardship, societal change or responsible technology and AI adoption.

What success looks like for this role:

• Trusted by clients to solve complex organisational challenges and deliver practical, future-ready solutions.
• Delivers high-quality, commercially sound projects that create measurable outcomes and lasting change.
• Builds high-performing, collaborative teams, creating clarity and bringing out the best in others.
• Grows client relationships and creates new opportunities, contributing to the growth and reputation of WSP’s Advisory offer.