Principal Management Consultant in Bristol

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we are 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.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here. We are looking for curious, personable strategic and change thinkers to join our growing AECOM Advisory team. Our team brings together the analytical discipline of management consulting with deep, practical infrastructure experience. We work closely with senior decision-makers across the public and private sectors, helping organisations navigate complexity and build resilient, inclusive, future-ready businesses.

Here's what you'll do:

• Shape clients' change and transformation plans, ensuring alignment with business cases and wider organisational objectives.
• Lead day-to-day, client-facing Advisory work, managing delivery, priorities, and relationships.
• Think strategically, applying critical analysis and insight to complex problems and uncertain contexts.
• Challenge assumptions and options, and present credible, persuasive alternatives that support better decision-making.
• Work as part of collaborative delivery teams across the UK, UAE, and USA.
• Build strong relationships across AECOM, including Programme Management, Economics, and Strategic Procurement, as well as engineering, architecture and master planning.
• Operate across the full spectrum of consultancy, from advising executive leadership and shaping direction to leading workshops and producing high-quality outputs.
• Build strong relationships with Clients, spending time working on client sites across the UK and UAE, as required.
• Support and develop junior team members, helping build change and transformation capability for the future.

Qualifications

Here's what we're looking for:

• Experience working with public sector clients, alongside exposure to private sector environments.
• Evidence of having built trusted relationships within complex, multi-partner and hierarchical stakeholder environments.
• Experience in designing, delivering, and tracking behavioural change and transformation initiatives, with experience shaping organisational culture, branding, and marketing development an advantage.
• Understanding of business strategy, governance, capability mapping, capital programme delivery and operating model design.
• Able to facilitate and manage conversations across mixed levels of seniority, drawing clear conclusions and driving action-oriented outcomes.
• Able to communicate clearly and credibly in person, in virtual meetings, and through high-quality written briefings and presentations.
• Ability to work collaboratively and lead teams in fast-paced, open, and creative environments.
• Able to apply judgement and empathy to support clients of differing capabilities and seniority through challenging and sometimes uncomfortable change journeys.

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.

Additional Information

About 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.