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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 Level)
Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world through infrastructure consulting. Our work helps improve commutes, ensure reliable energy, provide clean water, and transform cities—solving complex challenges to make communities thrive. As the world’s trusted infrastructure firm, we partner with clients to build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating global infrastructure investment, our services are in high demand. Join a global team of over 50,000 professionals—planners, engineers, scientists, digital innovators and more—who bring bold ideas and big dreams to impactful projects worldwide.
Join our team. Work with us. Change the world.
Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
We are seeking a Business Architect & Org Design Lead (Associate Director) to lead complex client engagements and expand our Strategy+ advisory offerings at AECOM. This senior consulting role (equivalent to Manager level in management consultancy) requires expertise in translating strategy into execution through operating model design, transformation, governance, and organisation optimisation.
Working across infrastructure, public sector, and regulated industries, this role combines:
- Hands-on problem solving
- Senior stakeholder management
- Team leadership
- Targeted business development
About Strategy+
Strategy+ empowers organisations to address system-level challenges by turning strategy into actionable change. Key areas include:
- Capability-led operating model design
- Governance design
- Change/framework transformation
- Performance improvement (across people, processes, data, technology, delivery)
Growth priorities focus on:
- Operating model design
- Change management
- Performance improvement (especially in Energy, Water & Defence).
Responsibilities
You will:
- Lead complex consulting engagements or major workstreams—from scoping through delivery—ensuring high-quality outputs, strong project governance and clear accountability.
- Design and implement credible, scalable methodologies addressing client challenges like operating models, organisation design, governance, service transformation, and business change.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, managing expectations confidently and providing strategic advice.
- Translate complex data into clear, decision-ready recommendations, roadmaps, and executive communications.
- Facilitate workshops and align stakeholders across priorities, trade-offs, and implementation choices.
- Apply horizon scanning and market insights to assess future challenges and enhance client discussions.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, connecting clients with specialist AECOM resources for seamless delivery.
- Proactively oversee scope, risk, quality, and commercial performance—intervening early when risks materialise.
- Drive business development by identifying follow-on projects, contributing to proposals, and deepening relationships in priority sectors.
- Coach consultants and senior consultants, delivering clear feedback on analysis, problem structuring, storylining, and client engagement.
- Optimise team structures—aligning expertise, capabilities, and business goals to client needs.
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Qualifications & Experience
Ready to innovate and deliver tangible impact?
We’re looking for:
- Proven consulting, advisory, or transformation experience (management or operational improvement roles preferred).
- Ability to lead fast-moving, high-stakes projects—demonstrating adaptability, quality, and delivery under pressure.
- Executive communication—clarity and narrative-building skills to distil complexity for senior stakeholders.
- Experience managing and influencing senior stakeholders (C-suite / project sponsoring tiers).
- Strong commercial acumen, including scoping work, managing risk in delivery, and supporting growth initiatives.
Additionally:
- Experience in assessing/redeveloping operating models, capability maps, governance structures, and transformation roadmaps.
- Pragmatic (not purely theoretical) approach to change, backed by practical client delivery experience.
- Clear evidence of embedding specialist systems-of-work, building scalable processes for enduring efficiency.
- Self-motivated, highly capable—prioritising execution in fast-evolving environments.
- Resilience in multi-prioritised work, maintaining quality while delivering under pressure.
- Influence credibility, credentials to challenge constructively, and recognised as a trusted advisor.
- Disciplined networking and relationship building to drive collaboration and cross-domain outcomes.
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
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Advantageous Experience:
- Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certifications.
Opportunities
AECOM’s advisory consulting offer centres on translating strategy into tangible outcomes—combining technical rigor, consulting dynamism, and operational agility. Ideal for senior profiles who thrive in high-impact delivery environments, leading cross-functional projects, and building capabilities aligned to AECOM Advisory’s evolution.
Additional Information
Onboarding
All new hires must complete mandatory in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office (a condition of employment).
About AECOM
We’re the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, specialising in:
- Advisory
- Planning
- Design and engineering
- Construction management
Our projects span transportation, smart buildings, water/wastewater systems, energy transitions, and sustainability. With a culture prioritising equity, inclusion, and environmental/social governance (ESG), AECOM is a Fortune 500 company delivering $16.1 billion in consultancy revenue for FY 2025.
Benefits & Culture
Freedom to Grow
- Hybrid work options for flexibility, balancing office, remote, or client-site engagements.
- Entrepreneurial mindset combined with drive to foster a supportive, respectful workplace, celebrating diversity.
Compensation & Well-being
AECOM offers a package designed to meet diverse employee needs—including holistic support for career development and work-life equilibrium.
Our Commitment:
Through AECOM’s global infrastructure lens, employees join a publicly traded success story, gaining access to:
- Cutting-edge technologies and innovations
- Executing projects with Spieling impact
- Actionable growth—our success is yours.
Core values include:
- Equality and opportunity (hiring based on potential)
- Disability Confidence: Interview offers extended to suitably qualified applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions.
Ensure you indicate your interest in the Disability Confident Interview Scheme by contacting disability.support@aecom.com.
Location & Business Details
State/Province: London (City of) Business Group: DCS Legal Entity: AECOM UK Limited Business Line: Advisory Work Location Model: Hybrid Operating Group: International Primary Location: London – Aldgate Tower
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