Head of North American Advisory Business Unit

** This role is open to all Steer's North American Offices Contact us | Steer (steergroup.com**

Who are we:

We are Steer and we help people, places and economies thrive. Founded in 1978, Steer is a global employee-owned business consultancy specializing in transportation, cities and infrastructure, with over 460 staff in 24 offices around the world.

We have an enduring commitment to generate success for our clients, for ourselves and for the communities in which we support. A commitment that ultimately improves the way people live, work and travel.

At Steer North America, our consultants work tirelessly to improve the landscape of our region, ensuring that our clients keep social and environmental impact in mind as they conduct their operations. We believe that actions speak louder than words, and therefore have annual measurable targets across all social impact areas, particularly DEI and sustainability. We have also committed to successfully operate as a Net Zero Carbon company by 2025, participating in the UN’s Global Compact.

For further information on Steer, please take a moment to review our website Steer | Helping people, places and economies thrive (steergroup.com)

The award-winning North American Advisory practice is an international business spanning the US and Canada. It has over 60 people servicing passenger rail, aviation and surface transportation infrastructure clients in the public and private sectors. Our advice ranges from strategic decision-support to senior staff and c-suite regarding transactions and visioning studies to detailed demand modelling and data analysis to underpin decisions and work on projects and programs like Link21 in the Bay Area.

For more information on the types of work we do, please see our project portfolio. Two projects that we are particularly proud of are Nuro and US High-Speed Rail Corridors.

How this role contributes to our sustainable growth trajectory

Accountability and growing a resilient client portfolio. This role is accountable for the performance of a 60-person business measured across client, people, operations and financial targets. Supported by Operations Managers, business delivery functions and reporting into a Company Executive Director, you will lead growth in the business by deploying your experience and enabling and inspiring project teams across the USA and Canada. The project portfolio you will lead spans public and private clients including those involved in passenger railroad operators, Municipal Planning Organizations, P3 investors and toll road/managed lane developers, aviation and new mobility.

Leading a distributed and collaborative team. Our Advisory practice is distributed across 9 offices in North America. You will lead a team that services our clients in collaborative teams comprised of North American and international people. Essential to sustainable growth is the need to remain networked throughout the North American region and internationally. This flexibility in our resourcing is a key differentiator for our clients and our international perspective results in differentiated and impartial advice that our clients are increasingly valuing.

Identifying opportunities and driving change. Our sustainable growth trajectory provides opportunities for our people to have rewarding careers at Steer. Your leadership will enable people to identify opportunities to develop their careers. Your entrepreneurial mindset will help us to identify opportunities with existing and future clients where our advice is valued. Your engaging style will help our people to identify meaning and purpose from their work with Steer and help contribute to our growth in North America.

Your key leadership and behavioral characteristics

In addition to normal accountabilities commensurate with Profit and Loss roles in professional services, we are looking for people who can demonstrate experience in three key aspects of leadership and three key behaviors:

Consultancy-first business leadership. Our people help our clients solve some of the most complex of transportation challenges. Our consulting, the experience and culture we bring to our clients, is impartial, entrepreneurial and underpinned by a rigor that is expected by our clients. You will know and be abl