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Business Architect & Org Design Lead
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Business Architect & Org Design Lead
Business Architect & Org Design Lead (Associate Director)
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.
About the Role
Start here. Grow here.
We are seeking a Business Architect & Org Design Lead (at 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 a Manager level in a management consultancy. You will work with infrastructure, public sector, and regulated-industry clients, translating strategy into execution through operating model design, transformation, governance, organisation, and performance improvement. 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
- Performance improvement across people, process, data, technology, and delivery
Current growth priorities include:
- Operating model design
- Change management
- Performance improvement, particularly in sectors such as Energy, Water, and Defence.
Key Responsibilities
Here's what you’ll do:
- Lead complex consulting engagements or major workstreams from scoping through delivery, ensuring:
- High-quality outputs
- Strong project discipline
- Clear team accountability
- Design and apply credible, efficient, and scalable methodologies to solve client problems in:
- Operating model development
- Organisation design
- Governance
- Service transformation
- Business change
- Performance improvement
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders:
- Manage expectations confidently
- Act as a day-to-day advisor
- Translate complex analysis into:
- Concise decision-ready recommendations
- Roadmaps
- Executive-level materials
- Facilitate workshops and steer cross-functional discussions to:
- Align stakeholders around priorities, trade-offs, and implementation choices
- Provide a forward-looking perspective through:
- Horizon scanning
- Market awareness
- Insight into emerging client challenges
- Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and connect clients with the right specialists across AECOM to create joined-up solutions.
- Manage scope, risk, quality, and commercial performance, intervening early where issues emerge.
- Lead business development in:
- Identifying follow-on opportunities
- Contributing to proposals
- Deepening relationships with priority sectors and target accounts
- Coach consultants and senior consultants on:
- Structuring
- Analysis
- Storytelling
- Client delivery
- Support effective team setup:
- Align capabilities to client needs
- Deliver team development
- Support business priorities
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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.
Qualifications and Requirements
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for in a candidate:
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Strong experience in:
- Management consulting
- Advisory
- Transformation
- In-house strategy or operational improvement roles
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Proven ability to:
- Lead teams on complex, ambiguous problems
- Deliver high-quality work under demanding timelines
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Strong executive communication skills, including:
- Articulating complex concepts simply
- Crafting compelling narratives from data and analysis
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Experience in:
- Managing senior stakeholders
- Influencing decisions in client environments
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Strong commercial judgment with experience in:
- Scoping work
- Managing delivery risk
- Supporting proposals or account growth
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Experience developing:
- Target operating models
- Capability maps
- Governance structures
- Implementation roadmaps
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Brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach rather than a purely theoretical consulting mindset, including:
- Experience operating within client environments
- Delivering practical outcomes
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Proven ability to:
- Develop and embed systematic ways of working
- Create scalable processes that improve efficiency, consistency, and long-term capability
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Self-motivated and highly driven, with a strong focus on:
- Execution
- Delivering results in fast-paced environments
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Comfortable working at pace while managing multiple priorities and maintaining:
- High-quality outputs
- Effective stakeholder engagement
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Confident communicator with credibility to:
- Influence senior stakeholders
- Challenge constructively
- Build trusted relationships across the business
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Strong networking and relationship-building skills to:
- Connect people
- Foster collaboration
- Leverage networks to drive successful outcomes
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification is advantageous.
About AECOM
AECOM is recognised as 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. We span sectors including:
- Transportation
- Buildings
- Water
- New energy
- Environmental solutions
Our work is driven by our common purpose: to deliver a better world. Over 16.1 billion USD in revenue stems from the Professional Services business during fiscal year 2025.
AECOM champions equity, diversity, and inclusion alongside its commitment to:
- Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities
- Technical and digital expertise
Our culture promotes entrepreneurship and pioneering mindsets.
Benefits and Culture
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will enjoy:
- Hybrid Work Options: Flexibility to work from AECOM offices, remote locations, or client sites.
- An environment that champions:
- Integrity
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Pioneering mindset
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
AECOM fosters a respectful, safe workplace where every individual can bring their whole self and create transformational outcomes for clients.
Compensation and Well-being:
- Industry-leading technology and thinking
- A wide range of compensation, benefits, and well-being programs tailored to the diverse needs of employees and their families
- Growth and success support aligned with AECOM's mission
As an Equal Opportunity Employer:
We believe in each person’s potential, thereby helping you reach yours.
Disability Confident Employer:
OECOM offers interviews to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the role's minimum criteria. Applicants should notify us via ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if they'd like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
ReqID: J10153991
Business Line: Advisory
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Consulting Services
Work Location Model: Hybrid
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