Principal Management Consultant in London

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. Trusted relationships sit at the heart of how we work. We take the time to understand our clients, collaborate closely with their teams, and shape bespoke solutions that address real challenges and deliver meaningful outcomes. We put ourselves in our clients' shoes, draw on the expertise of our global firm and act as a trusted advisor when the stakes are highest. Our Advisory services are grounded in decades of first-hand industry experience, strong commercial judgement and a client-focused culture. Our work spans strategy and transformation, operational excellence, and change management, supporting clients through their most critical decisions and periods of change.

Responsibilities

• 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

• 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.

Company information and benefits

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

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 are 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.