Associate Consultant - Business Change & Transformation

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here. Associate Business Change & Transformation Consultant. 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 guidance in planning and executing transformational changes.

We are recruiting an Associate Business Change & Transformation Consultant to join the UK and Ireland team. As Associate Consultant you will 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 change and transformation solutions that deliver desired short- and long-term objectives and outcomes.

As part of the Strategy+ team you will be leading pieces of work, fully accountable for delivering to quality and cost agreements and reporting to one of our Associate Directors. 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, understanding their needs and existing operations.
• Build strong trusting relationships with relevant stakeholders that enable you to provide expert Change and Transformation advice, insight and challenge.
• Plan and deliver strategic change and transformation initiatives that achieve desired business or behaviour change outcomes.
• Monitor progress and adjust approach as needed 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.

Qualifications

Here’s what we are 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 ambiguous 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 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 change and transformation approaches 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+.

Experience

• Certified practitioner through PROSCI or APMG or membership of relevant professional body.
• Demonstrable experience leading complex change and/or transformation at scale and pace within a consultancy or in-house team.
• Sector experience in infrastructure, specifically aviation, rail, defence, energy, water or highways sectors would be desirable, but is not mandatory.

Applying for this role!

Please include a cover letter with your application outlining your motivation for applying and how your relevant experience and skills meet the key requirements of the role.

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.

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!