Visualization Project Manager

WSP is seeking a Visualization Project Manager to grow client partnerships and deliver visualization projects for clients in the energy industry. The role manages project scopes, budgets, schedules, resources, and client communications while supporting marketing, sales, and new service initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Excited to develop and maintain great working relationships with WSP staff, WSP management and build partnerships with our clients
• Partner with the production team to provide clear direction and keep client deliverables on schedule
• Works hard to ensure successful project through great planning, while anticipating potential risks and challenges. Continuously work with our clients and project teams to find and implement the best solutions
• It is important to be a team player who is willing to follow standard WSP processes, utilize specific tools and workflows to support our amazing team culture
• Leading multiple projects while coordinating competing deadlines and resources
• Develop clear scopes, realistic budgets, resource plans, and schedules for visualization projects
• Everything we do relies on great communication, empathy and diligence in managing status reporting, timely invoicing, accounts receivable oversight and watching unbilled costs on our projects
• Maintain accurate work plans, project records, and financial tracking throughout delivery
• Support production teams to be successful while they work on projects for our clients
• Track deliverables, milestones, risks, decisions, and action items, and communicate project status to clients and internal teams
• Lead or support client status meetings and document decisions, responsibilities, and next steps
• Monitor project scope and support the timely development of change orders when client needs or project requirements change
• Support invoicing, project financial reporting, and the review of unbilled costs and accounts receivable
• Identify and escalate schedule, budget, scope, resource, or client concerns to senior leadership when additional support or decisions are needed
• Report directly to the Senior Director, who will provide training, guidance, and ongoing support as project management responsibilities grow
• Always seeking to identify and qualify new clients to build partnerships
• Working with the Visualization team to effectively market new and establish clients successfully
• Interface with other Production Business Units across the company to identify their markets and support as one team
• Identify potential projects and support or lead the pursuit to win the work
• Support and execute the development of visualization sales goals set by Visualization business Director
• Develop partnerships from the initial meeting through the long-term support of each of our clients
• Able to understand our clients’ issues, goals, budgets etc. and collaborate with the team to develop cutting-edge solutions to support their needs. Consistently focused on “Mutual Success”
• Work with other divisions in coordinated marketing solutions for our WSP clients based on a focus to bring value in everything we do
• Remain excited to build your industry network, attend select conferences and present WSP Visualization as an industry SME leader
• Assist and champion in achieving WSP’s Strategic Goals identified in annual visualization business plan
• Help identify new initiatives through innovation and use of emerging technologies
• Assist in the execution of annual marketing/sales plan

Requirements:

• Successful candidates must have 8+ years of visualization, visual analysis, power delivery or energy experience with a good understanding of the visualization industry
• Some successful Project Management and Leadership Experience
• Some Sales and Marketing experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with clients, project teams, and leadership
• Strong organization, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and the ability to learn project management, financial, and visualization workflows and tools
• Ability to work collaboratively with technical and creative professionals in a fast-paced, client-focused environment
• The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States
• Existing experience in the visualization, environmental, power delivery, renewables, generation, oil/gas, and/or internal strategic industries
• An existing network of clients and established relationships
• Experience presenting at Visualization & Energy specific conferences
• Lead on the preparation and execution of major proposals