VP Infrastructure Advisory (Project Controls – Social Infrastructure)

• (Internal Title: Vice President)

As one of the first leaders within Accenture Infrastructure & Capital Projects (I&CP) Canada’s Healthcare and Buildings (H&B) business, the Vice President, Infrastructure Advisory (Project Controls – Social Infrastructure) will play a crucial role in leadership, strategy, and delivery to position us as the leading driver of change in Canadian infrastructure capital planning, procurement, delivery and asset management. With an emphasis in healthcare and vertical buildings infrastructure, the leader will also be responsible for supporting the Canadian integration of I&CP with Accenture’s broader Strategy & Consulting business across both its Health and Public Sector industry groups

The Vice President, Infrastructure Advisory (Project Controls – Social Infrastructure) will be the key leader that supports the Senior Vice President, Healthcare and Buildings in developing and deploying a nation-wide strategy for delivering on I&CP’s five-year business case and strategic plan in tandem with Accenture Canada’s growth priorities. Within I&CP Canada, the Vice President, Infrastructure Advisory (Project Controls – Social Infrastructure) will:

Play a primary leadership role in business development and client mandate execution of:

Project Controls, Project Management, and Construction Management, including:

• Providing leadership, oversight for all project controls disciplines in support of program and project controls mandates for hospital and social infrastructure project clients
• Elevation of commercial competency in delivery and decision making based on project controls and project management staffed to project mandates
• Complex claims and contract management analysis for projects in construction
• Develop and implement program-wide standards (internally) and provide advisory services regarding such standards of practice that is tailored to client needs (externally) by liaising and co-leading across all of I&CP’s program and project controls leadership
• Identifying resource needs and requirements with the consideration of added benefits in providing digital services and current industry trends towards delivery of major programs through non-traditional forms of procurement and delivery.

Commercial Management of Infrastructure Projects, including:

• Provide Canadian-leading expertise in all aspects of formulating, selecting, implementing and advising on contract packaging, procurement and transaction structuring, contract model selection, contract and commercial risk analysis and delivery model selection tools, particularly with emphasis to inputs required for commercial consideration in target-price and progressive contracts
• Synthesize downstream execution delivery functions with upstream planning and business case inputs at the time of delivery model selection and procurement strategy
• Co-lead with senior infrastructure advisory leadership the negotiation and management of claims resolutions and providing program-controls-informed commercial resolutions offerings to contracting authorities in the midst of complex disputes
• Develop infrastructure advisory solutions predicated on early-adoption of project and program controls inputs for value-added dispute avoidance for contracting authority clients

Play a supporting leadership role within I&CP and the Healthcare and Buildings Team for:

Capital Program and Project Strategic Planning, including:

• Provide superior industry-leading expertise in the establishment, oversight, and operations of a capital program
• Provide superior industry-leading expertise in the inception, ideation, pre-planning and planning phase strategy for capital projects and programs
• Leadership and insight with respect to executing capital program transformations with ability to advise clients on core facets of such transformations, such as:
  • implementation of project management information systems
  • upskilling and integration of project controls functions
  • implementation of quality management and knowledge management frameworks
  • upskilling of contract administration systems and processes
  • optimization of internal capital program governance; and
  • implementation of internal operating models that align with client workforce planning and resource planning

Capital Program and Project Business Case Strategy, including:

• Establishment of a business case methodology, benefits management and benefits assurance practice that supports infrastructure client program and project sponsorship requirements
• Leading a practice that synthesizes public policy frameworks, political acuity, quantitative rigor, and commercial decision-making

Procurement and Program Management, including supporting:

• Establishment of capital procurement services as a managed service, inclusive of procurement operations, execution, contract administration, process optimization and operational efficiencies
• Providing superior industry-leading expertise in public procurement services, including design and implementation of streamlined public procurement policies, evaluation frameworks, and advanced evaluation methodologies applicable within large infrastructure capital programs
• Development, implementation leadership and execution of procurement transformation strategies, including change management, talent strategy, business process reinvention, and support in identification and implementation of digital procurement systems
• Development and implementation of program level reporting leveraging an integrated project controls system to support risk-informed decision making
• Capital procurement analytics business services, data governance advisory, procurement data strategy
• Establishment of capital program management services, including quality management and knowledge management systems and training for indirect procurement execution functions

Play a team leadership role within I&CP and the Healthcare and Buildings Team to:

Support the integration of Accenture’s strategy & consulting practice with I&CP in both health and public sector industries:

• In respect of Capital Program and Project Strategic Planning, by providing infrastructure insights and synergy opportunities where successful transformation of service operating models for infrastructure assets and programs require upstream capital planning inputs
• In respect of Capital Program and Project Business Case Strategy, by building business case methodology, benefits management and benefits assurance as a broader service line together with infrastructure-oriented market research and intelligence competencies to inform and validate I&CP strategic decisions or opportunities
• In respect of Commercial Management of Infrastructure Projects, by augmenting S&C execution capabilities in general commercial contract negotiation and strategy, inclusive of outsourced service delivery opportunities

Support Accenture’s digital transformation and I&CP digital value proposition, together with the head of I&CP’s digital practice:

• In respect of Capital Program and Project Strategic Planning and Capital Program and Project Business Case Strategy, by developing client opportunities that progress the use of data and digital tools for improvement of capital planning outcomes
• In respect of Procurement and Program Management, by applying commercial contracting knowledge to business processes and solutions, for example the implementation of digital procurement solutions or in advising on contractual and procurement provisions required to enable digital twinning standards in projects
• In respect of future asset management and asset operations capabilities, by advising on commercial terms and scope enforcement approaches that align with increasing need for client assets to be adaptable with technological change
• In respect of Project Controls, demonstrating digital opportunities that create efficiencies from an output turnaround time and leveraging historical data in risk and scheduling analysis (e.g. through machine learning or AI based tools)