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Are you ready to lead a team of talented engineers and shape the future of the water industry?

Our UK&I Water business is looking to recruit a Framework Manager for our key client accounts with water companies or contractors in the South / South East of England. This role is crucial to delivering the objectives of our water business, where significant opportunities for both account and client relationship growth exist.

You will lead the AECOM approach and foster collaborative engagement with our client, managing a design and professional services framework to ensure consistently excellent client service, project delivery metrics and service growth.

As an integral part of our framework and account manager network, this role offers a fantastic springboard for future career development within AECOM both nationally and globally. AECOM is committed to employee wellbeing and flexible working through our ‘Freedom to Grow’ approach. You will benefit from a challenging role that can be delivered around your personal priorities to create a unique work / life balance that’s right for you.

The Team:

Our Water team has delivered some of the most high-profile projects across the UK, so your projects and clients will be varied and interesting. Examples of our current frameworks and key long-term clients include:

• Morrison Water Services (MWS) – AECOM are designer to contractor, MWS, on major long-term water and wastewater infrastructure frameworks for Southern Water and Thames Water. We’ll be delivering design and professional services across significant AMP8 programmes (Circa £1 billion CAPEX) covering optioneering, outline and detailed design across water and wastewater projects that help advance positive outcomes for customers, communities and the environment
• Affinity Water – AECOM deliver a range of design and professional services across engineering and environment workstreams, with our framework extending into AMP8.
• Thames Water – AECOM has positions across a range of AMP8 frameworks including major projects, infrastructure design and environmental services. We bring experience from a range of major schemes including Thames Tideway Tunnel, Deephams STW upgrade and ‘Capital Delivery’ infrastructure and non-infrastructure schemes across the Thames region.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead: This role is a key client facing position in which you will be empowered to lead the frameworks that you’re on; and be accountable for developing and maintaining our relationship and reputation with our clients.
• Deliver: You will work with our Strategy & Growth leads and CAMs to develop and deliver your framework account plan. You will be the conduit that connects our clients with our business, ensuring we deliver to agreed metrics - including safety, programme, cost, innovation and quality. You will manage the wider corporate relationship and drive business with the client (both new growth and maintaining existing workloads). This means representing the full spectrum of AECOM services and geographies, giving you the opportunity to learn about and connect with our wider teams.
• Quality: You will understand AECOM’s commercial, contractual and technical obligations to clients and ensure that we deliver to them, ensuring client satisfaction that results in repeat work.
• Grow: You will identify upcoming pursuits with the client and work with internal teams to position AECOM for them. You will be responsible for promoting opportunities, leading the resulting proposal development with the bid and delivery teams to develop winning strategies and high quality technical and commercial proposals.
• Develop: Work with your AECOM colleagues to identify areas of business need (capacity and capability), highlighting areas to develop and expand the team both through progression of internal staff and recruitment.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

Come & Grow with Us.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion.  Here, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Deep understanding of water sector and knowledge of the regulatory environment that our clients operate in.
• Proven experience in forming strong relationships and mutual trust with a range of stakeholders within client organisations.
• Experience in technical and commercial bid development and delivery of water industry schemes.
• Experience of project and programme delivery using NEC 3 or 4 contracts.
• Experience of delivery across project phases, such as business case development, feasibility, outline / conceptual design, detailed design, construction support etc.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organisation skills.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn – Jay Hewitt.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.