Here’s What You’ll Do

• Client and Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients, including private developers, Estates Directors, and infrastructure operators. Provide strategic advice to clients, ensuring their goals are met with innovative and sustainable solutions. Represent AECOM at client meetings, industry events, and conferences, enhancing the company’s reputation as a leader in transport planning.
• Business Development: Identify and pursue new business opportunities in the Development Planning sector. Lead the preparation of bids and proposals, ensuring they align with client needs and AECOM’s strategic priorities. Build relationships with and collaborate with leads in other business lines to secure and deliver multidisciplinary projects.
• Project Delivery: Oversee the delivery of complex transport planning projects, ensuring they meet quality, budget, and timeline requirements. Provide technical oversight and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Manage project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure successful outcomes.
• Team Development: Support in the mentoring and development of a high-performing team of transport planners and consultants. Exhibit visible leadership within the office, and build internal relationships. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Promote diversity and inclusion, ensuring a supportive and equitable workplace.
• Team Performance: Play a key role in driving the financial performance of the team through proven work winning, project management and team management abilities with excellent Client relations.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through to operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project.

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s What We’re Looking For

• Degree in Transport Planning, Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, or a related field.
• Membership in professional body such as the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) or Transport Planning Society (TPS).
• Extensive experience in Development Planning, with a proven track record in winning work and growing teams.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills. Including the ability to build relationships with Clients and colleagues.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and deliver strong financial performance.
• Established profile and relationships in the West Midlands Development Market.
• Comprehensive knowledge of transport planning principles, policies, and regulations in the UK&I region.
• Well rounded knowledge and awareness of a broad range of transport disciplines including transport modelling (strategic and local) and transport economics.
• Collaborative behaviours and the ability to interface with design teams in scheme development.
• Proficiency in commonly used transport planning tools and software.

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!

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