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Business Architect & Org Design Lead
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Business Architect & Org Design Lead
Leading the Future: Business Architect & Org Design Lead (Associate Director, Strategy+)
About AECOM
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 impactful work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s top infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to tackle some of the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
This is an exciting time to join AECOM, with global infrastructure investment accelerating. With bold ideas and big dreams, you can become part of a meticulously engineered organisation of over 50,000 planners, engineers, scientists, and digital innovators worldwide. Together, we create tangible, positive impacts every day.
We are one focused team, driven by the united purpose of shaping a better world.
About the Role: Business Architect & Org Design Lead (Associate Director)
Start here. Grow here.
We are seeking a Business Architect & Org Design Lead (balanced between Manager and Associate Director in consultancy terms) to lead our Strategy+ consulting engagements. This role is at the heart of translating high-level strategy into executable, long-term business outcomes.
You will work directly with clients in sectors including infrastructure, public sector and regulated industries, delivering creative and impactful solutions through:
- Operating model design, ensuring efficiency and scalability
- Transformation and governance frameworks
- Organisation design and capability improvement
- Performance improvement across people, process, and systems
This position spans from problem solving to stakeholder management and strategic business development. Your work will dominate a consultative skillset in translating innovative ideas into everyday operational improvements.
Key Responsibilities
As Business Architect & Org Design Lead, you will be instrumental in strategy execution and organisational change—here’s what your day-to-day will look like:
- Lead complex consulting engagements or high-value workstreams throughout the project lifecycle
- From initial scoping and method definition, to delivery and continuous improvement
- Design effective tools and methodologies tailored to client challenges, ensuring:
- Scalability, efficiency
- Clear and practical recommendations for transformation and capability elevation
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and serve as their thought-partner
- Align expectations, shape discussions, and act as a key day-to-day consultant
- Translate nuanced analysis into clear, actionable insights for executive stakeholders
- Develop concise decision roadmaps, executive summaries, and insightful presentations
- Facilitate strategic workshops and cross-functional collaborative thinking
- Shape stakeholder agreement on priorities, risks, and trade-offs for transformation programmes
- Horizon scan emerging trends to inform future-proof client strategies
- Provide insights into disruptors and sophisticated market challenges
- Lead and coordinate a diverse range of disciplinary teams
- Bridge AECOM’s specialised expertise to help clients unlock interconnected opportunities
- Maintain rigorous controls on scope, risk, quality, and commercial outcomes
- Proactively identify and mitigate issues before they escalate into project obstacles
- Own business development opportunities and future growth pathways
- Identify high-value follow-on projects and contribute to proposals to develop key client relationships
- Mentor senior consultants and junior consultants
- Elevate team capability in problem-solving, analysis, storytelling, and client engagement
- Optimise team set-up based on project needs while supplementing internal growth and strategic direction
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Key Qualifications and Profiles
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
The real operative value here lies in the balance between fluent analytical thought and customer-centric delivery. We are looking for:
Strong core consulting background with:
- Proven expertise leading management consultancy projects, advisory transformations, or operational improvement initiatives—either sold by an external consulting firm or managing strategy as a part of an in-house function.
- Ability to tackle intractable, complex challenges and deliver consistently high-quality work under dynamic timelines.
- Strong executive communication skills to captivate an audience with complex data, distilling it into fulfilling narratives and compelling strategies.
- Adept at engaging senior stakeholders—aligning interests while maintaining robust influence and decision-making capabilities.
- Commercial savvy broken down into nuances of proposal and account management, managing client scope and delivery risks to suite shared expectations.
Hands-on managerial ability:
- A pragmatic, practical mindset—not purely theoretical—especially knowledgeable about executing transformations in client environments.
- Experience creating scalable processes and target operating models, enhancing efficiency and innovation ecosystems.
- Demonstrated commitment to performance excellence in fast-paced, change-driven environments, where multiple priorities MUST coexist without compromise to quality.
- Skills to adapt, pivot, and lead effectively throughout project lifecycles.
Evolvement and ambition:
- Typically, the role of a thought leader and influencer across the client base; exceptional communicators who can build both credibility and strong networks.
- Vision to expand market opportunities through relationship-building, understanding how value is driven through delivery and capability building.
Skills and Attributes That Stand Out:
Educational Foundation:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant business, engineering, technology, operations, strategic management, or sector specialization.
- Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certifications is advantageous (e.g., PMP, PgCert Strathclyde, Coaching diplomas).
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Impact-Oriented Mindset:
- Passionate about system transformation—both as a source of innovation and as a deliberate practice to drive realistic change.
- Champions sustainability, inclusive collaboration, and strategic mission fulfillment.
Let’s grow together—this could be yours:
This is a forward-looking leadership opportunity within AECOM Advisory—a chance to:
- Guide cutting-edge transformation programs for major clients
- Lead large-scale approach to organisational architecture and capability building
- Shape a firm-wide methodology in business strategy translation
- Stewards results-driven hybrid working environments with the support to flourish
The best of our work enables us to do more than construction or infrastructure design—we uplift entire communities.
About AECOM’s Commitments
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A Secure, Global Profession— All newly hired employees need to attend Day 1 onboarding in-person at an AECOM office location, matching AECOM’s commitment to a secure and rigorous recruitment process.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion— At AECOM, our people shape our outcomes. We welcome each person to bring their authentic self to work, leveraging their talents, backgrounds, and specialisms for transformation.
- AECOM is a Disability Confident Employer—providing accommodation-focused interview opportunities for candidates with disabilities or long-term conditions.
- D&I commitment extends to believing every person has relevant potential, and we will actively help you unlock yours.
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Compensation & Benefits— AECOM offers:
- Flexible compensation packages
- Comprehensive well-being programmes
- A wide global network of hybrid working options prioritising flexibility with performance.
- Recognition embedded in strategies to foster both personal and professional progression.
Opportunities and Expertise
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Infrastructure is Evolution— AECOM’s content combines unrivalled technical expertise with a focus on equity, environment, and social priorities. Fortune 500 powerhouse, driving a $16.1 billion revenue achievement across its professional services (2025).
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Public Sector Trust— Especially, driving meaningful change in transportation, buildings, water, new energy, defence, and environmental sectors.
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Equal Opportunity Employer— With a variety of career paths, AECOM respects unique aspirations, so your growth journey resonates with our cornerstone too.
Where we are and what you can do:
Experience your own growth and the satisfaction of impact—join AECOM today.
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Contact:
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AECOM ReqID: J10153991
Business Area: Advisory
Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe &india
Work Location Model: Hybrid
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