At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the development of our Aviation Advisory business and manage a dynamic team.
- Company: Join AECOM, a global leader in infrastructure consulting, making a real-world impact.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible work options, competitive salary, and diverse benefits tailored for you.
- Other info: Diverse team culture with opportunities for international collaboration and growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of aviation while growing your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and experience in airport planning or engineering required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Company Description
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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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Job Description
Aviation is one of the key focus sectors at AECOM, a business sector which sits within our number one rated global transportation engineering consultancy. Whilst we are already the number one aviation engineering consultancy by revenue globally, we see significant future growth potential as the sector recovers from the downturn induced by the Covid 19 outbreak. Our clients are now re-investing in their assets, to ensure they are in the right condition, but also to ensure their capacity needs of the future.
Traditionally the UK Aviation business has been UK centric, focused on supporting our clients with airfield and civil infrastructure engineering services. Our future growth strategy is moving away from this, focusing around four key pillars, strengthening existing and building new relationships across our UK customer base, creating new client relationships and activity across Europe, building our aviation advisory business globally, and creating a new service offering targeting future flight and ESG.
To support this growth, we are currently seeking a Technical Director to lead the development of our Aviation Advisory business in the UK, Europe and India to help grow the project pipeline and expand the team. In this role, you will develop winning proposals and work on a range of aviation advisory projects across the UK and Internationally.
This role can be based in any of our UK AECOM offices.
We are looking for a strategic business thinker with a large network of industry contacts who will drive the development of the advisory business and seek project opportunities that make a real impact in the aviation sector. We will be seeking you to understand our business and its services to develop a portfolio of advisory services to take to market. This will embody disciplines from across our 4 key business lines. If you have an expertise in ORAT, or any other specialist advisory skills this will be an advantage. Our clients include airport owners, contractors, governments, and regulatory bodies, through which we are pursuing a diverse range of opportunities and projects across the aviation advisory sector.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Grow: Utilising your existing network, you will seek opportunities with current and new clients to build a pipeline of advisory projects. You will develop your relationships with key clients to the level of trusted advisor status. You will build AECOMs profile in this sector as we position ourselves as complex integrators, representing the aviation advisory business through conference participation and presenting, thought leadership and social media.
- Lead: You will lead and manage a team of up to 5 people with a range of skills and seniority to deliver complex projects with demanding deadlines to a high level of quality.
- Shape: You will write the strategy for the advisory business, identifying target markets and clients, building our service portfolio, setting annual P&L targets and identify strategic recruitment requirements.
- Deliver: Consultancy services across a range of disciplines including airport master planning, capacity analysis, terminal and support facility planning, airfield planning and phasing, airside and terminal simulation modelling, and environmental and sustainability advice.
- Advise: Provide expert technical and business advice and analysis to our clients through the management and delivery of projects, working alongside other aviation technical teams, including technical due diligence and technical advisor roles. As a subject matter expert, you will support major bids and programmes where specialist knowledge, insight and advice is required.
- Ensure Quality: You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of our deliverables before they are presented to our clients.
- Collaborate: You will be part of our wider Europe and India Aviation team, a multi-cultural/multi-disciplinary team based across the UK, Europe and India. It includes junior and senior members with a range of consulting backgrounds, all passionate about what we do in the aviation sector.
Qualifications
Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree. Membership of an appropriately recognized professional institution.
Technical Experience: Within the airport planning, airport design, airport engineering and airport construction sector.
Project Management and Delivery: Previous experience in leading multi-disciplinary project teams and delivering projects to required quality standards, on time and within budget. Experience and understanding of project quality control, programming and budgeting.
Business Development: Previous experience of developing and maintaining client relationships and work backlog with new and existing clients. Experience with consultancy contracts.
International experience: Experience with international companies and /or working in an international setting.
Team Management: Previous experience of team management and team building.
Advisory Experience: Able to demonstrate a strong client and stakeholder network within the aviation industry which will translate into winning and delivering airport projects in the advisory sector.
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 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!
Additional Information
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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Siobhan Osborne.
