Senior Manager - Investment and Transaction Advisory

About the role

WSP in the Middle East is looking for a Senior Manager to lead its Investment and Transaction Advisory practice in Sharjah. The role brings advisory expertise to the management team serving top-tier public and private sector clients, covering project preparation, business case development, investment decisions, market sounding, PPP and JV commercial structures, and commercial exposure to large infrastructure projects across social infrastructure, transport, waste-to-energy and water and wastewater.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to practice strategy, service line development and go-to-market approach.
• Engage with government bodies, regulators and private-sector stakeholders to build a pipeline of qualifying infrastructure projects, including shaping opportunities before procurement.
• Provide advisory support across the full project lifecycle, from strategy and business case preparation to commercial structuring and, where needed, post-commercial-close support.
• Coordinate pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, value-for-money analysis, public-private comparators, risk assessment and mitigation matrices, procurement models and evaluation criteria.
• Oversee technical due diligence and combine it with commercial due diligence for investment committees considering infrastructure investments.
• Translate technical and sector engineering knowledge into board- and ministry-ready strategic narratives.
• Represent WSP in discussions and negotiations with key stakeholders and lead multidisciplinary delivery teams across Advisory services, Property & Building, Transport and Infrastructure and Project Management Services.
• Manage project economics, including collections, work-in-progress status, revenue forecasting, invoicing and financial oversight.
• Supervise junior team members, give clear direction, monitor performance regularly and support their ongoing learning and development.

Required profile

• B.Sc. degree in accounting and finance, economics, engineering, management, policy or a related field.
• Professional qualification such as MBA and/or CFA, or similar study, preferred.
• At least 8 years of infrastructure advisory experience.
• Experience in Investment and Transaction Advisory, either in a PPP/JV or infrastructure M&A context.
• Preferred: experience in Strategy & Transactions or Deals at the Big Four or similar consultancies.
• Substantial experience across more than one infrastructure subsector and region.
• Track record of leading projects to commercial and/or financial close.
• High-level written and oral presentation skills in English; Arabic skills are valuable but not mandatory.