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AECOM Advisory is our new management consulting Global Business Line. Created to build on AECOM’s considerable operational expertise in infrastructure design and engineering services, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs. We serve the full value chain of clients active in infrastructure and the built environment, including: central and local government, defence, energy, investors, transportation and water. Our UK team of 100 staff comprises business analysts, economists, commercial strategists, major programme advisors and change management practitioners. We help our clients develop their strategy, set-up major programmes for successful delivery and improve their operational performance, to generate value for their stakeholders and impact for their communities.
Job Responsibility:
Driving business development
Overseeing engagement delivery
Leading practice development
Driving industry conversations and engaging professional networks to identify and originate business development opportunities
Leveraging industry expertise and commercial acumen to proactively target, define and shape business development campaigns
Oversee all aspects of business development, for both engagements and broader campaigns, including: client outreach, proposal development, solutions architecture, commercial and pricing strategy, internal risk review, and compliance procedures
Oversee (lead, supervise, and provide quality control over) multiple parallel delivery teams, across various delivery models, tempos and engagement scopes
Provide leadership for client interactions on delivery progress and insight validation, and visibility for interactions including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders
Upwardly and laterally manage the inputs from peers and technical experts to flag key delivery choices, considerations and risks as they relate to technical scope, client satisfaction, and commercial constraints
Architect analytical workstreams and strategically guide engagement teams
Provide timely quality assurance and control over scope, assumptions, analyses and insights
Oversee narrative formulation and highly-polished deliverable production to meet client expectations and firm standards
Drive practice development with conducting performance appraisals, FP&A, operational performance improvement, thought leadership and IP generation
Proactively coach and mentor staff
Requirements:
Deep understanding of one of our priority sectors and an exceptional network
Track record of work winning with clients in this sector
Exceptional interpersonal skills, client-service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients
Ability to create a culture of a high-tempo, high-context client-facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure
Able to be self-directed, anticipatory and a collegial team-player who can work across a devolved-leadership and highly-matrixed consulting organization
Exceptional verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C-suite and senior management audiences
Exceptional commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and expert understanding of client industries and their context
Domain expertise across multiple of the following areas: Corporate or enterprise strategy, market analysis and target operating model design
Organisational assessment, business transformation and performance improvement
Corporate finance, valuations, M&A, divestitures, divestments and privatisations
Capital projects advisory, including project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal, capital improvement planning, asset management, portfolio strategy
Economic development, industrial policy and market transformation
Proven track record in a seller-doer role in a management consulting firm
At least 10 years of management consulting and/or related industry experience
Bachelor’s degree
What we offer:
Flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options
Working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed
A wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs
Access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility