Strategic Program Leader – Infrastructure Delivery

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.

Job Description

Start Here Grow Here. We are seeking a Senior Program Manager to provide strategic leadership and coordinated oversight for the delivery of a medium‑ to large‑scale program, or a significant workstream within a more complex program. This role is accountable for ensuring that all elements of the program are effectively integrated, governed, and managed to achieve the desired outcomes. As a senior delivery leader, the Senior Program Manager will guide multidisciplinary teams, proactively manage risks and issues, and maintain strong engagement with key stakeholders. The role also supports the development of delivery methodologies, encourages collaboration across teams, and drives high performance throughout the program. In addition, the Senior Program Manager contributes to building organisational capability and plays an active role in supporting work‑winning activities.

Here's what you'll do:

• Lead the successful delivery of a medium to large program, or a defined and complex portion of a larger program, ensuring outcomes are achieved in line with scope, schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
• Provide direction and coordination across project managers and functional leads to ensure integrated and consistent delivery.
• Establish and maintain governance processes, including reporting, assurance activities, and decision‑making arrangements.
• Support program initiation activities such as mobilisation, planning, development of delivery approaches, and implementation of program tools and systems.
• Drive effective stakeholder engagement, ensuring alignment, communication, and timely resolution of issues across internal and external parties.
• Lead risk, issue, and change management processes to sustain delivery confidence and proactive problem‑solving.
• Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, quality, and technical standards across all program activities.
• Provide commercial and contractual oversight for assigned program elements, supporting supplier management and financial performance.
• Promote innovation, digital adoption, and continuous improvement within the program team.
• Lead, coach, and support team members’ development, contributing to capability growth and talent progression.
• Contribute to business development activities, including supporting pursuits, proposals, and client engagement efforts.
• Support organisational initiatives to strengthen program management consistency, maturity, and knowledge sharing.

Qualifications

Here's what we're looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, engineering, business, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Typically 10+ years of experience, including at least 5 years in senior program or project leadership roles.
• Proven track record delivering medium to large programs or complex, multi‑disciplinary portfolios.
• Professional certification (PgMP, PMP, APM‑PMQ, or equivalent) preferred but not essential.
• Chartered or licensed professional status may be required depending on geography.

Preferred Experience

• Leading integrated teams within complex program environments with multiple disciplines and stakeholders.
• Establishing and applying governance, reporting, and assurance processes to support effective program delivery.
• Demonstrated ability in stakeholder engagement, risk and issue management, and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Experience delivering infrastructure, transformation, digital, or capital investment programs.
• Evidence of team development, mentorship, and contributing to organisational capability uplift.
• Participation in professional associations, internal knowledge‑sharing, or industry initiatives.

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

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

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.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re 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.