PA Consulting

PA Consulting

Principal Consultant - Transportation

Boston, , United States · Principal · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 68 days ago
Business DevelopmentForecastingProcurementContract ManagementCommunicationPublic SpeakingFinancial ModelingDemand Planning

About the role

  • Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
  • Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Responsibilities

  • Build and sustain trusted relationships across transit authorities, toll agencies, DOTs,and mobility operators, helping clients navigate complex stakeholder environments define strategic priorities.
  • Operating Model Design
  • Advise clients on organizational restructuring, governance design, operating model transformation, and workforce strategy across complex multi-modal transport systems.
  • Support and drive pipeline growth by contributing to pursuit strategy, authoring proposals, and representing the firm at industry forums, conferences, and with strategic partners.
  • Coach and support consultants and managers, contribute to a high-performing team culture, and participate in practice capability building, hiring, and thought leadership.
  • Experience building and managing client relationships at a senior level, including engagement with executive directors, C-suite, or senior public sector officials
  • Operating model design: governance structures, organizational charts, RACI frameworks, workforce planning, and change management
  • Executive communication: ability to produce board-level briefings, strategy documents, and compelling presentations
  • Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges.
  • We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Requirements

  • Experience with organizational design, operating model transformation, or performance improvement in a transportation or infrastructure context
  • Knowledge of federal and state transportation funding mechanisms (IIJA,
  • Required Experience & Qualifications

Nice to have

  • An advanced degree in business administration, public policy, finance, engineering, or a related field
  • an MBA is highly valued
  • Prior experience within a transit authority, state DOT, or transportation agency, whether in an advisory, operational, or project role
  • Active network within the US transportation industry with transit authorities, toll agencies, federal agencies (FTA, FHWA), or industry bodies (APTA, IBTTA)
  • Familiarity with technology-enabled transportation transformation: MaaS platforms, contactless fare collection, GTFS/data standards, or intelligent transportation systems
  • However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

Skills

  • governance structures, organizational charts, RACI frameworks, workforce planning, and change management
  • Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.

Compensation

  • Low: $159,200 - High: $212,300.
  • In compliance with Colorado's, New York & Massachusetts's Equal Pay Transparency Act, PA is required to provide a reasonable salary range for this role.

Benefits

  • This salary range is specific to the State of Massachusetts and is commensurate with experience, market data, applicant skills, internal equity and/or degrees/certifications.
  • And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Company info

  • We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
  • We are seeking a commercially sharp, strategically minded Principal Consultant to join and strengthen our Transportation practice.

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