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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)
Company Description
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
- Help grow the Strategy+ offer in AECOM Advisory
- Serve in a senior consulting delivery role (broadly equivalent to Manager level in a management consultancy)
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 (Especially across Energy, Water and Defence)
Key Responsibilities
Consulting & Delivery
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Lead complex consulting engagements or major workstreams from scoping through delivery, ensuring:
- High-quality outputs
- Strong project discipline
- Clear team accountability
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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
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Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, manage expectations confidently, and act as a strong day-to-day advisor.
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Translate complex analysis into:
- Concise, decision-ready recommendations
- Roadmaps
- Executive-level materials
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Facilitate workshops and steer cross-functional discussions to align stakeholders on:
- Priorities
- Trade-offs
- Implementation choices
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Bring a forward-looking perspective through:
- Horizon scanning
- Market awareness
- Insight into emerging client challenges
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Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and connect clients with the right AECOM specialists to create joined-up solutions.
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Manage:
- Scope
- Risk
- Quality
- Commercial performance (Intervene early if delivery issues arise.)
Business Development
- Identify follow-on opportunities and contribute to proposals to deepen relationships in:
- Priority sectors
- Target accounts
Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Coach consultants and senior consultants on:
- Structuring
- Analysis
- Storytelling
- Client delivery
- Support effective team set-up and role allocation, aligning:
- Capability with client needs
- Team development
- Business priorities
Qualifications & Requirements
Experience & Skills
Here’s what we’re looking for:
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Strong experience in:
- Management consulting
- Advisory
- Transformation or in-house strategy/operational improvement roles
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Proven ability to:
- Lead teams on complex, ambiguous problems while delivering high-quality work under demanding timelines.
- Articulate complexity simply and build compelling storylines from data and analysis.
- Manage senior stakeholders and influence decisions in client environments.
- Apply strong commercial judgement, including:
- Scoping work
- Managing delivery risk
- Supporting proposals/account growth
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Experience in:
- Developing target operating models
- Creating capability maps
- Designing governance structures
- Building implementation roadmaps
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Approach:
- Pragmatic, hands-on (not purely theoretical)
- Operates within client environments
- Delivers practical outcomes
- Develops and embeds systematic ways of working for:
- Efficiency
- Consistency
- Long-term capability
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Personal traits:
- Self-motivated, highly driven
- Focused on execution and results in fast-paced environments
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities while maintaining:
- High-quality outputs
- Stakeholder engagement
- Confident communicator with credibility to:
- Influence senior stakeholders
- Challenge constructively
- Build trusted relationships across businesses
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- Relationship-building:
- Strong networking and collaboration skills
- Leverage networks to drive successful outcomes
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification (advantageous).
Why Join AECOM?
This role offers an opportunity 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 and build client relationships. ✅ Contribute to capability and delivery excellence within AECOM Advisory.
Additional Information
At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process. All newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office as a condition of employment.
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, driving positive impact through projects across transportation, buildings, water, new energy, and the environment. We’re a Fortune 500 firm with $16.1B revenue in FY 2025.
About AECOM
Our Mission
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering services throughout the project lifecycle—from advisory to construction management.
Culture & Values
- Unrivalled technical and digital expertise
- Culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)
- ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) commitment
Career Growth
- Hybrid work options
- Flexibility to do your best work
- Integrity, entrepreneurship, and pioneering mindset encouraged
- Safe and respectful workplace—everyone brings their whole selves
Benefits & Policies
- Competitive compensation
- Widespread benefits (health, well-being, etc.)
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Disabled Confident Employer – guaranteed interview if you meet criteria Apply via ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com
All information remains confidential under EEO guidelines.
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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