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GHD hires Business Development Consultants to grow client relationships and pursue new projects across infrastructure, environment, and advisory services. The company has an established track record of sponsoring international professionals for this function, making it a realistic target for visa-dependent candidates with consulting or technical business development backgrounds.
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To solve complex challenges, you need to challenge the status-quo.
At GHD Advisory we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy and urbanization.
Join a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability.
Together, we’ll help create a future for generations to come.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
We are seeking an Executive Advisor – Power & Utilities to strengthen GHD Advisory’s market presence and deliver high-value strategic insights to clients. This role is pivotal in shaping infrastructure investment decisions, advising on strategy, and guiding clients through complex commercial and strategic challenges.
You will work closely with our clients, senior executives and client leadership teams to provide board-level advisory consulting services, shaping strategic direction while supporting client growth and delivery outcomes. This role requires you to be market-facing and to be able to lead the development of weighted pipeline for Business Advisory led targets in Power & Utilities.
This role is pivotal in shaping infrastructure investment decisions, advising on strategic frameworks, and guiding clients through complex commercial and strategic challenges.
The role is highly client and market facing, requiring a strong seller–doer mindset. The Executive Advisor will be accountable for originating, winning and delivering work, leading complex advisory engagements across the Americas, and operating across GHD’s priority markets in Power & Utilities. The role combines business development, client leadership and hands-on delivery, with a clear focus on driving growth and achieving commercial outcomes.
Our Hybrid Work Model:
Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.
Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
- Data Collection and Analysis: Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature.
- Workshop Facilitation: Facilitate complex process development workshops with subject-matter experts, drive agreement on process flows across functional areas, and document processes and activity workflows to develop clear and detailed process maps.
- Client Issue Clarification: Develop interview frameworks and protocols and conduct strategic interviews to gather information from senior managers and to clarify complex client issues.
- Client Issue Diagnosis: Conduct in-depth analysis of the strategic and operational information gathered through interviews and research to diagnose complex underlying business unit/function issues and problems and to inform the design of multiple solutions.
- Community of Practice Management: Lead a community of practice in a strategically significant area of consulting practice or expertise to provide thought leadership and to develop innovative consulting practice among colleagues.
- Consulting Project Content Development: Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management, or bespoke and market-leading client reports—to complete the work of client team.
- Consulting Project Delivery: Deliver bespoke training, facilitate workshops with top management (C-suite), advise, and provide reports to address complex client issues. Manage the overall delivery quality of the team's work to ensure maximum client satisfaction.
- Consulting Project/Program Design: Design high-strategic-impact transformational project/program architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic client interviews to develop multiple solutions that meet the client's stated requirements and address complex senior management issues.
- Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
- Project Management: Manage the delivery of a major part of the organization's project management program. Take personal responsibility for a small number of business-critical projects.
- Business Advice: Manage corporate decision-making for business advisory within a function, ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives.
- Client & Customer Management (External): Manage strategic client and customer relationships. Likely to involve using large account teams to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar field of study; MBA a plus
- 13+ years in infrastructure, energy, utilities, strategy consulting, or commercial advisory
- Experience in advising executive leadership and boards on strategic decisions
- Strong understanding of infrastructure markets, regulatory frameworks, and investment drivers
- Exceptional analytical ability, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills; ability to influence at the highest levels.
As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way. We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact. See where your commitment could take you with GHD.
Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day. That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today. See where your commitment could take you.
Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
INTRODUCTION
To solve complex challenges, you need to challenge the status-quo.
At GHD Advisory we are invested in creating sustainable commercial outcomes with clients driving change in water, energy and urbanization.
Join a team committed to solving complex challenges across the value chain, from capital deployment to asset management, enabling resilience, growth and sustainability.
Together, we’ll help create a future for generations to come.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
We are seeking an Executive Advisor – Power & Utilities to strengthen GHD Advisory’s market presence and deliver high-value strategic insights to clients. This role is pivotal in shaping infrastructure investment decisions, advising on strategy, and guiding clients through complex commercial and strategic challenges.
You will work closely with our clients, senior executives and client leadership teams to provide board-level advisory consulting services, shaping strategic direction while supporting client growth and delivery outcomes. This role requires you to be market-facing and to be able to lead the development of weighted pipeline for Business Advisory led targets in Power & Utilities.
This role is pivotal in shaping infrastructure investment decisions, advising on strategic frameworks, and guiding clients through complex commercial and strategic challenges.
The role is highly client and market facing, requiring a strong seller–doer mindset. The Executive Advisor will be accountable for originating, winning and delivering work, leading complex advisory engagements across the Americas, and operating across GHD’s priority markets in Power & Utilities. The role combines business development, client leadership and hands-on delivery, with a clear focus on driving growth and achieving commercial outcomes.
Our Hybrid Work Model:
Be part of the dynamic culture! Our workplace thrives on a hybrid model, combining in-office collaboration and flexibility. Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment.
Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
- Data Collection and Analysis: Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature.
- Workshop Facilitation: Facilitate complex process development workshops with subject-matter experts, drive agreement on process flows across functional areas, and document processes and activity workflows to develop clear and detailed process maps.
- Client Issue Clarification: Develop interview frameworks and protocols and conduct strategic interviews to gather information from senior managers and to clarify complex client issues.
- Client Issue Diagnosis: Conduct in-depth analysis of the strategic and operational information gathered through interviews and research to diagnose complex underlying business unit/function issues and problems and to inform the design of multiple solutions.
- Community of Practice Management: Lead a community of practice in a strategically significant area of consulting practice or expertise to provide thought leadership and to develop innovative consulting practice among colleagues.
- Consulting Project Content Development: Develop innovative approaches and write materials that are highly visible—such as slide decks for presentations on innovative solutions to top management, or bespoke and market-leading client reports—to complete the work of client team.
- Consulting Project Delivery: Deliver bespoke training, facilitate workshops with top management (C-suite), advise, and provide reports to address complex client issues. Manage the overall delivery quality of the team's work to ensure maximum client satisfaction.
- Consulting Project/Program Design: Design high-strategic-impact transformational project/program architecture, building on the initial proposal and the strategic client interviews to develop multiple solutions that meet the client's stated requirements and address complex senior management issues.
- Personal Capability Building: Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.
- Project Management: Manage the delivery of a major part of the organization's project management program. Take personal responsibility for a small number of business-critical projects.
- Business Advice: Manage corporate decision-making for business advisory within a function, ensuring alignment with broader organizational objectives.
- Client & Customer Management (External): Manage strategic client and customer relationships. Likely to involve using large account teams to maintain customer satisfaction and loyalty.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or similar field of study; MBA a plus
- 13+ years in infrastructure, energy, utilities, strategy consulting, or commercial advisory
- Experience in advising executive leadership and boards on strategic decisions
- Strong understanding of infrastructure markets, regulatory frameworks, and investment drivers
- Exceptional analytical ability, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills; ability to influence at the highest levels.
As a multicultural organization, we encourage individual achievement and recognize the strength of a diverse workforce. GHD is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, national origin, sex (including same sex), sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, disability or handicap, citizenship status, service member status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way. We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact. See where your commitment could take you with GHD.
Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day. That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today. See where your commitment could take you.
Who we are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.
The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanisation sustainable for generations to come.
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Frame your credentials around GHD's service lines
GHD's BD roles sit at the intersection of technical consulting and client-facing sales. Before applying, tailor your resume and portfolio to show experience supporting infrastructure, environment, or advisory pursuits, not just general business development.
Target GHD's regional market sectors directly
GHD structures hiring around geographic business units and sector verticals like water, transportation, and energy. Researching which regional office or sector team has open BD roles lets you pitch your network and pipeline experience as immediately relevant.
Confirm your visa category fits GHD's sponsorship scope
GHD has sponsored candidates under multiple nonimmigrant and immigrant visa pathways. If you're on F-1 OPT, verify your STEM extension eligibility before outreach, since BD consulting roles often qualify and give you a longer runway to secure a sponsored position.
Get your PERM documentation strategy right early
If GHD pursues an EB-2 or EB-3 Green Card for you, the PERM labor certification process requires DOL-specific recruitment documentation. Ask your recruiting contact early whether GHD handles this internally or through outside counsel so you know the timeline ahead.
Use Migrate Mate to identify open BD roles at GHD
Pinpointing which GHD offices are actively hiring Business Development Consultants with sponsorship is the hardest part. Search Migrate Mate to filter open GHD roles by visa type and location before you spend time customizing your application materials.
Prepare for GHD's offer-to-filing gap on I-129 petitions
For H-1B transfers or TN renewals, USCIS processing under standard timelines can take several months. Once you have an offer, align with GHD's HR on whether premium processing is available so your start date and authorization window stay in sync.
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Find Business Development Consultant at GHD JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does GHD sponsor H-1B visas for Business Development Consultants?
GHD's primary sponsorship activity for Business Development Consultants has been under immigrant and nonimmigrant pathways including EB-2, EB-3, and F-1 OPT rather than H-1B transfers. That said, sponsorship decisions are role-specific and tied to hiring need, so it's worth raising the H-1B question directly with GHD's HR team during the offer stage to confirm what they can support for your situation.
How do I apply for Business Development Consultant jobs at GHD?
Applications go through GHD's careers portal, where roles are organized by region and service line. Before applying, identify which market sector or geographic business unit aligns with your background, since GHD's BD hiring is decentralized. You can also browse current openings filtered by visa sponsorship eligibility on Migrate Mate, which makes it easier to find roles where international candidates are actively considered.
Which visa types are commonly used for Business Development Consultant roles at GHD?
GHD has sponsored Business Development Consultants under F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, J-1, and permanent resident pathways including EB-2 and EB-3. TN is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying professional categories. F-1 OPT candidates should confirm their graduation date and remaining authorization window before applying, since GHD's hiring cycle for BD roles can take several months from initial interview to offer.
What qualifications and experience does GHD look for in Business Development Consultants?
GHD's BD Consultant roles typically require a bachelor's degree in a field aligned with one of their core service lines, such as engineering, environmental science, planning, or business. Practical experience supporting proposals, managing client relationships, or pursuing public-sector contracts in infrastructure or advisory services is weighted heavily. Candidates who can demonstrate pipeline contributions or specific project wins in GHD's target sectors stand out from general sales backgrounds.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a GHD Business Development Consultant offer?
Timeline depends on the visa category. TN status for Canadian nationals can be obtained at the port of entry on the same day as your start date. F-1 OPT authorization, if already approved, activates on your designated start date. EB-2 or EB-3 Green Card sponsorship through PERM involves a DOL-supervised recruitment period followed by USCIS adjudication, which commonly takes one to two years or longer depending on your priority date and country of birth.
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