Future Ready® Senior Analyst

The Opportunity:

WSP Canada has an exciting opportunity to join the Future Ready® Team as a Future Ready ® Senior Analyst at any mutually agreed upon WSP Canada office. Future Ready® is WSP's global resilience and innovation program, enabling, challenging, and inspiring our people to provide advice and deliver projects that are ready for the future, as well as today.

As the Future Ready ® Senior Analyst , you will support the Future Ready® team in executing initiatives as required to deliver the Future Ready® program, particularly focusing on engaging staff and clients across Canada on future strategic level trends that are or will be impacting their current and future projects. The Future Ready® program is organized around three pillars:

• See the future more clearly.
• Develop complete solutions for the long-term.
• Challenge the status quo.

Why choose WSP?

• We value and are committed to upholding a culture of inclusion and belonging
• Our Flexible Work Policy - we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
• A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
• A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

#WeAre WSP

What you can expect to do here:

• Research and analyze topics related to changes in society, resources, climate, technology, as well as market trends to inform client engagement events.
• Assist with preparing materials for internal and external facing uses, including but not limited to proposals, reports, publications, and presentations.
• Promote and champion the Future Ready® program with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with staff from all business sectors in WSP's service offerings to identify opportunities for engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist with facilitating workshops and other engagement events.
• Present at internal speaking engagements with WSP staff across Canada, and externally at client engagement events, and at industry conferences.
• Travel as necessary for short-duration trips and events.
• Develop internal resources such as practical guides, case studies, and project delivery materials.
• Liaise with the Future Ready® team, and other WSP staff from a variety of technical and non-technical backgrounds.
• Strategize ways to incorporate Future Ready® into current business practices and workflows to integrate future-focused thinking into all aspects of the project lifecycle.
• Other duties as assigned/required that relate to engaging clients, such as researching and analyzing business and market-based insights.

What you'll bring to WSP:

• Undergraduate degree in a related field.
• 5+ years of related experience.
• Experience in consulting services, project delivery, sustainability and resilience, and customer service would be an asset.
• Demonstrate interest and understanding of societal, technological, and market trends, as well as sustainability and resilience.
• Able to identify, understand and explain complex interactions across all aspects of our society, technology, resource, and climate landscape.
• Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point and others), SharePoint and other communications-related software programs.
• Highly effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative and able to form partnerships across different sectors and business units.
• Strong at multi-tasking, organized and adaptable to shifting priorities.

Nice to have

• Experience in facilitating engagement events.
• Able to prepare thought leadership articles, and support in the preparation of whitepapers, and industry conferences.
• Bilingual (English and French).

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $80,800 - $111,100

WSP Canada is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it will pay for this position based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to the specific geographic location.
WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP:

• We value our people and our reputation
• We are locally dedicated with international scale
• We are future focused and challenge the status quo
• We foster collaboration in everything we do
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

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