AECOM
Business Architect & Org Design Lead
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Business Architect & Org Design Lead
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.
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're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
We are seeking a [Business Architect & Org Design Lead (Associate Director level)] to lead complex client engagements and help grow the [Strategy+] offer in AECOM Advisory. This is a senior consulting delivery role, broadly equivalent to Manager level in a management consultancy. You will work with infrastructure, public sector, and regulated-industry clients to translate strategy into execution through operating model design, transformation, governance, organisation, and performance improvement work. The role combines:
- Hands-on problem-solving,
- Senior stakeholder management,
- Team leadership, and
- Targeted business development.
About Strategy+
Strategy+ helps organisations solve complex system-level challenges by turning strategy into practical, deliverable change. Our work spans:
- Capability-led operating model design,
- Governance design,
- Change and transformation, and
- Performance improvement across people, process, data, technology, and delivery.
Current growth priorities include:
- Operating model design,
- Change management, and
- Performance improvement, particularly across Energy, Water, and Defence.
Key Responsibilities
You’ll lead complex consulting engagements or major workstreams from scoping through delivery, ensuring:
- High-quality outputs,
- Strong project discipline, and
- Clear team accountability.
Key tasks include:
- Designing and applying credible, efficient, and scalable methodologies to solve client problems across:
- Operating model development,
- Organisation design,
- Governance,
- Service transformation,
- Business change, and
- Performance improvement.
- Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and managing expectations confidently (acting as a strong day-to-day advisor).
- Translating complex analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations, roadmaps, and executive-level materials.
- Facilitating workshops and steering cross-functional discussions to align stakeholders around priorities, trade-offs, and implementation choices.
- Bringing a forward-looking perspective through:
- Horizon scanning,
- Market awareness, and
- Insight into emerging client challenges.
- Coordinating multi-disciplinary teams and connecting clients with the right specialists across AECOM to create joined-up solutions.
- Managing scope, risk, quality, and commercial performance, intervening early where delivery issues emerge.
- Leading business development by:
- Identifying follow-on opportunities,
- Contributing to proposals, and
- Deepening relationships in priority sectors and target accounts.
- Coaching consultants and senior consultants, providing clear feedback on:
- Structuring,
- Analysis,
- Storylining, and
- Client delivery.
- Supporting effective team set-up and role allocation to ensure capability aligns with:
- Client need,
- Team development, and
- Business priorities.
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Why This Role Matters
If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure—we uplift communities and enhance lives.
Follow our [AECOM LinkedIn page] to stay updated on impactful projects and see the difference we’re making!
Qualifications & Requirements
Here’s What We’re Looking For
Experience: ✔ Strong background in management consulting, advisory, transformation, or in-house strategy/operational improvement roles. ✔ Proven ability to lead teams on complex, ambiguous problems and deliver high-quality work under demanding timelines. ✔ Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to:
- Articulate complexity simply,
- Build compelling storylines from data and analysis. ✔ Experience:
- Managing senior stakeholders and
- Influencing decisions in client environments. ✔ Strong commercial judgement, including:
- Scoping work,
- Managing delivery risk, and
- Supporting proposals or account growth. ✔ Operating model development and:
- Target operating models,
- Capability maps,
- Governance structures,
- Implementation roadmaps. ✔ A pragmatic, hands-on approach (avoiding purely theoretical consulting) with experience:
- Operating within client environments and
- Delivering practical outcomes. ✔ Demonstrated ability to:
- Develop and embed systematic ways of working that improve:
- Efficiency,
- Consistency, and
- Long-term capability. ✔ Self-motivated and highly driven, with a strong focus on execution in fast-paced, evolving environments. ✔ Ability to:
- Work at pace,
- Manage multiple priorities, and
- Maintain high-quality outputs and stakeholder engagement. ✔ A confident communicator with the credibility to:
- Influence senior stakeholders,
- Challenge constructively, and
- Build trusted relationships across the business. ✔ Strong:
- Networking and relationship-building skills,
- Ability to:
- Connect people,
- Foster collaboration, and
- Leverage networks to drive successful outcomes.
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Education: ✔ Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. ✔ Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification (advantageous).
This Opportunity
This is a chance to:
- Help shape and grow a consulting offer focused on translating strategy into practical change.
- Work on high-impact problems for major infrastructure clients.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams.
- Play a visible role in:
- Building client relationships,
- Developing capability, and
- Ensuring delivery excellence within AECOM Advisory.
About AECOM & Additional Information
At AECOM, maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process is a priority. Fraudulent hiring activity is taken seriously, and all newly hired employees must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office.
AECOM’s Purpose & Growth
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services through:
- Advisory,
- Planning,
- Design,
- Engineering (including construction management).
We work across:
- Transportation,
- Buildings,
- Water,
- New energy, and
- Environment.
Our teams are driven by:
- Technical and digital expertise,
- A culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and
- Commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities.
As a Fortune 500 firm, we generated $16.1 billion in revenue (fiscal year 2025). Learn more about our work.
Freedom to Grow & Well-being
You’ll thrive in an environment that champions: ✔ Integrity, ✔ Entrepreneurial spirit, and ✔ Pioneering mindset.
We foster a safe, respectful workplace where everyone can bring their whole selves to work using unique talents, backgrounds, and expertise to create transformational outcomes.
Benefits & Culture
Contract & Compensation: AECOM offers a wide array of compensation, benefits, and well-being programs designed for diverse needs, including family support.
Growth: Your growth and success are ours too. As part of a global, publicly traded firm, you’ll gain:
- Access to industry-leading technology and thinking,
- Transformational work with big impact,
- Flexible working models, including client site assignments, and
- End-to-end project support.
Equal Opportunity: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, believing in the potential of every person and helping you unlock it.
Disability Confident Commitment: AECOM is a Disability Confident Employer, offering interviews to qualified candidates with disabilities or long-term conditions. For support or alternative application processes, contact: ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com.
Your information is kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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