Senior Consultant, Infrastructure Advisory

Contract duration: Permanent

Salary: Completive plus benefits

Location: Gurugram, India

About Steer

We are Steer and we help people, places and economies thrive. Founded in 1978, Steer is a global business consultancy specialising in transport, cities, and infrastructure, with over 600 staff in 25 offices around the world.

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

At Steer, our consultants work to improve the outlook 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 DEIA 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)

About the Role

Steer is looking for an enthusiastic and talented professional with a passion for transport to join our India office as a Senior Consultant with prior transportation transaction advisory and project management experience. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team that works on a wide variety of high-profile transportation projects, including traffic and revenue studies for toll roads, transportation finance studies and strategic policy making. You will work as part of our global team spanning across India, Europe, North America, LATAM and UK providing solutions to both private sector clients, including investors, operators and concessionaries within the infrastructure sector.

We are specifically interested in consultants to work with us on tasks such as:

• Toll road transaction advisory;
• Conducting detailed quantitative and qualitative data analysis;
• Managing primary surveys such traffic counts and origin-destination surveys;
• Traffic and revenue forecasting and travel demand estimation for brownfield and greenfield toll road assets;
• Assessing trends of key macro-economic drivers
• Network impacts of new and existing exogenous factors like new expressways, regulatory changes, modal shifts to/from other modes, containerization trends within commodities.
• Business and financial modelling; and
• Policy and regulatory advisory.

This position will be based in our Infrastructure team and will support the team and clients with project management and the delivery of transaction advisory projects. The candidate will support the core India team to deliver existing projects and to develop a portfolio of new infrastructure transaction projects.

Key accountabilities

The candidate will be required to:

• Manage and deliver successful projects (time, cost, quality) as Project Manager, primarily on toll road transaction projects (also supporting overseas transactions);
• Provide technical expertise and drive technical analysis (traffic and revenue forecasting), report writing and presentations to clients;
• Manage, supervise and coach more junior members of the team;
• Deliver effective, high-quality proposals, engage in business development and develop a market presence;
• Drive own career path and network (internal and external).
• Contribute to effective team performance on both financial and behavioural measures

Work Life Balance

All Steer employees seeking a full-time opportunity are encouraged to spend 60% of their time either in office or on-site with clients. Hours, expectations, and exemption status will be adjusted for any applicant seeking a part-time opportunity.

Compensation

Steer is committed to ensuring that all its employees are compensated a fair, competitive wage. All initial compensation, regardless of location, may be subject to change as skills, abilities, internal equity and geographic location are taken into account.

In addition to base salary, all employees will be eligible for an annual discretionary performance bonus. Please review the benefits section for more information on total reward.

Steer reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional compensation.

Requirements

• Have relevant prior transportation and infrastructure advisory work experience spanning 5 to 8 years, preferably having advised private sector clients on toll road transactions.
• Have demonstrable project management experience including the ability to deliver high quality, profitable work within project deadlines.
• Have experience of delivering successful projects, across a range of toll roads and geographies within and outside India.
• Client facing and/or client-side experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• experience in communicating effectively with clients.
• ability to back up opinions with well-constructed, evidenced arguments; and
• ability to confidently explain complex analysis to non-specialists via reporting and presentations
• Strong analytical skills e.g., data cleaning/analysis using a range of software packages (MS Excel, Stata, SPSS, R) including an ability to analyse and draw insight from the data
• Ability to use Microsoft packages, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
• Good team player, able to work collaboratively with colleagues in other disciplines and with different cultures and across time zones

Education qualifications

The candidate should be educated to degree level from one of the following disciplines: Economics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Engineering, Transport Planning, Geography, or other numerical or transport-related subjects.

Benefits

For our full-time employees, we offer a competitive package of benefits including private medical insurance, ability to buy and sell annual leave, 25 days annual leave, Employee Assistance Program, an Employee Provident Fund contribution, and a discretionary yearly bonus based on annual compensation (dependent upon individual and company performance).

Steer is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all candidates regardless of race, color, ancestry, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Any other human expressions and experiences not mentioned here are equally welcome. If you require an accommodation, now or throughout your employment, please let us know.

In our commitment to inclusivity in the workplace, Steer has welcomed the creation of various Employee Resource Groups, dedicated to ensuring the support, progression, and well-being of all employees. For more information, check out our social responsibility page Our social responsibility | Steer (steergroup.com).

Our evaluation processes are designed around merit and capability.  We don’t select people on the prestige of their educational establishments or other background information.  Our interviewers are trained on how to manage selection processes fairly and without bias, and to conduct processes which do not selectively appeal more to one or more demographic to the detriment of any others.

We understand that some may be dissuaded to apply based off their compatibility with the job description. That being said, we understand that not everyone is a perfect match on paper and encourage anyone to apply regardless of how much their work experience directly relates to the job description.

Part-time and flexible working applications will be considered.