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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Strategy+ is AECOM’s Management Consultancy team.  Strategy+ operates Globally and assists clients to make sense of complexity, articulate their challenges and deliver solutions that improve their performance. Drawing on the vast expertise of AECOM's capabilities, S+ crafts innovative approaches and offers four key services.

• Strategy Development,
• Business Architecture/Operating Model
• Change Management 
• Transformation Advisory

Our management consultants lead major client engagements, providing expert advice and guidance to drive strategic initiatives and deliver measurable value. This role involves working with leaders and Execs to design and oversee the implementation of tailored solutions that deliver desired short- and long-term objectives and outcomes.

Additionally, as a Management Consultant within the Strategy+ team you will be leading pieces of work, fully accountable for delivering to quality and cost agreements.  Depending on size and scale of the clients ambition you could be the sole lead, leading a bigger delivery team, or working as part of a larger multi-skilled team.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Invest time with clients to listen well, building long-term client relationships to foster trust, understanding their needs and existing operations.
• Proactively develop a diverse network of contacts, establishing partnerships across internal and client teams to create bespoke solutions to industry and client problems.
• Build strong trusting relationships with relevant stakeholders that enable you to provide expert advice, insight and challenge.
• Plan and deliver strategic change and transformation initiatives, working across teams to ensure successful adoption and alignment to achieve desire business or behaviour change outcomes.
• Monitor progress and adjust approach to meet clients style and needs to ensure success.
• Produce and present information to the highest quality.

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 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!

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for

• Emotionally intelligent and self-aware of your behaviours in different situations.
• Well prepared, but also able to pivot and adapt in complex, uncertain, or ambiguity scenarios.
• A leader in your profession, evidenced when you are responsible for delivery, but also when you are working as part of a wider collaborative team.
• A systems thinker, able to make sense of complexity by seeing and understanding problems at an interconnected macro scale.
• A critical thinker who is able to leverage data analytics and insights to support evidence-based decision-making, ensuring that all recommendations to clients are informed based on quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• A good communicator and narrator, able to commit your ideas in text and speech
• An experienced facilitator of stakeholders. Where you encounter conflicting perspectives or priorities you can adapt to ensure you still gain insights, consensus or action.
• A mentor to your colleagues enhancing the wider team’s knowledge of delivering major projects and programmes, operating in ambiguity and delivering a pace to build a resilient skill base and culture of continuous learning.
• A proficient internal and external networker identifying and pursuing opportunities for the growth of Strategy+.
• Engage in lifelong learning, adapting to emerging trends and technologies to stay at the forefront of industry changes.

• Demonstrable experience leading complex programmes and projects at scale and pace within a consultancy or inhouse team.
• Sector experience in infrastructure, specifically Energy, Defence, Transportation and Water would be desirable.
• Experience in developing, reviewing, or delivering Business Cases, ensuring alignment with client objectives, strategic priorities, and value-for-money assessments.
• Experience working with and interpreting government policies, regulatory frameworks, and legislation, with the ability to incorporate these into project design and strategic recommendations
• Experience in analysing and mapping strategic, core, and support processes to support IT system implementation within complex government or defence environments.

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!

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.

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