AECOM Advisory - Senior Director in Birmingham

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

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.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM Advisory is our new management consulting Global Business Line. Created to build on AECOM’s considerable operational expertise in infrastructure design and engineering services, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs.

We serve the full value chain of clients active in infrastructure and the built environment, including: central and local government, defence, energy, investors, transportation and water. Our UK team of 100 staff comprises business analysts, economists, commercial strategists, major programme advisors and change management practitioners. We help our clients develop their strategy, set‑up major programmes for successful delivery and improve their operational performance, to generate value for their stakeholders and impact for their communities.

We are a new category of consulting firm; one that builds off true operational and technical expertise of our broader platform to bring industry depth and capability‑driven insight to the clients we serve.

We are seeking talented leaders to join AECOM Advisory who are mission‑driven for the role of our clients. We are recruiting for this role which can be based anywhere in the UK.

You will join as a leader in a fast‑paced and supportive team of diverse consulting professionals. We pride ourselves on our strong culture of collaborative problem‑solving, our mission of addressing our client’s most complex and impactful problems, and paired with career pathways that nurtures professional development and personal growth.

Here’s what you’ll do:

As a Senior Director in AECOM Advisory’s UK business, your day‑to‑day role will include driving business development, overseeing engagement delivery and leading practice development. This is a seller‑doer role, and these tasks will include, but not be limited to:

• Driving industry conversations and engaging professional networks to identify and originate business development opportunities.
• Leveraging industry expertise and commercial acumen to proactively target, define and shape business development campaigns.
• Oversee all aspects of business development, for both engagements and broader campaigns, including client outreach, proposal development, solutions architecture, commercial and pricing strategy, internal risk review, and compliance procedures.
• Oversee multiple parallel delivery teams, across various delivery models, tempos and engagement scopes.
  • Provide leadership for client interactions on delivery progress and insight validation, and visibility for interactions including with C‑suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
  • Upwardly and laterally manage the inputs from peers and technical experts to flag key delivery choices, considerations and risks as they relate to technical scope, client satisfaction, and commercial constraints.
  • Architect analytical workstreams and strategically guide engagement teams.
  • Provide timely quality assurance and control over scope, assumptions, analyses and insights.
  • Oversee narrative formulation and highly‑polished deliverable production to meet client expectations and firm standards.
• Drive practice development with conducting performance appraisals, FP&A, operational performance improvement, thought leadership and IP generation.
• Proactively coach and mentor staff.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Deep understanding of one of our priority sectors and an exception network. Track record of work winning with clients in this sector.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, client‑service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.
• Create a culture of a high‑tempo, high‑context client‑facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure.
• Able to be self‑directed, anticipatory and a collegial team‑player who can work across a devolved‑leadership and highly‑matrixed consulting organization.
• Exceptional verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C‑suite and senior management audiences.
• Exceptional commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point‑of‑view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and expert understanding of client industries and their context.
• Domain expertise across multiple of the following areas:
  • Corporate or enterprise strategy, market analysis and target operating model design.
  • Organisational assessment, business transformation and performance improvement.
  • Corporate finance, valuations, M&A, divestitures, divestments and privatisations.
  • Capital projects advisory, including project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal, capital improvement planning, asset management, portfolio strategy.
  • Economic development, industrial policy and market transformation.
• Proven track record in a seller‑doer role in a management consulting firm.
• At least 10 years of management consulting and/or related industry experience.

Benefits and Environment

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We offer flexible hybrid work options, allowing you to work from an AECOM office, a remote location or at a client site. We support a safe and respectful workplace and foster an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their whole selves to work.

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