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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