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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. 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. Join us to bring 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 worldwide.
We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world.
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. This role blends 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 and 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. Key growth priorities lie in operating model design, change management, and performance improvement, particularly within sectors such as Energy, Water, and Defence.
Responsibilities
Here’s what you’ll do:
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Lead complex consulting engagements or major workstreams, from scoping through to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs, strong project discipline, and clear team accountability.
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Design and apply credible, efficient, and scalable methodologies to solve client problems across operating model development, organisation design, governance, service transformation, business change, and performance improvement.
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Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, confidently manage expectations, and function as a strong day-to-day advisor.
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Translate complex analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations, roadmaps, and executive-level materials.
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Facilitate workshops and steer cross-functional discussions to align stakeholders around priorities, trade-offs, and implementation choices.
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Bring a forward-looking perspective through horizon scanning, market awareness, and insights into emerging client challenges.
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Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and connect clients with specialists across AECOM to create joined-up solutions.
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Manage scope, risk, quality, and commercial performance, intervening early to address potential delivery issues.
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Lead business development by identifying follow-on opportunities, contributing to proposals, and deepening relationships in priority sectors and target accounts.
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Coach consultants and senior consultants, offering clear feedback on structuring, analysis, storylining, and client delivery.
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Support effective team set-up and role allocation to align capability to client needs, team development, and business priorities.
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
Ready to Push the Limits of What’s Possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Strong experience 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 and build compelling storylines from data and analysis.
- Experience managing senior stakeholders and influencing decisions in client environments.
- Strong commercial judgement, including expertise in scoping work, managing delivery risk, and supporting proposals or account growth.
- Proficiency in developing target operating models, capability maps, governance structures, and implementation roadmaps.
- A pragmatic, hands-on approach rather than a purely theoretical consulting mindset, with experience operating within client environments and delivering practical outcomes.
- Proven ability to develop and embed systemic ways of working, creating scalable processes that improve efficiency, consistency, and long-term capability.
- Self-motivated and highly driven, with a focus on execution and delivering results in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Comfortable working at pace, managing multiple priorities without compromising quality or stakeholder engagement.
- A confident communicator with the credibility to influence senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and build trusted relationships across businesses.
- Strong networking and relationship-building skills, leveraging networks to drive successful outcomes.
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- A postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification is considered an advantage.
This is an opportunity to help shape and grow a consulting offer, translating strategy into practical change for high-impact problems faced by major infrastructure clients. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams and play a pivotal role in building client relationships, capability, and delivery excellence within the AECOM Advisory.
Additional Information
We maintain a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take all fraudulent hiring activity seriously. All newly hired employees are required to complete in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
Committed to Diversity, Equity, and Equity As a publicly traded Fortune 500 firm, AECOM provides compelling career opportunities and professional growth for our employees globally. By offering hybrid work options, we empower employees to balance work and life in a way that suits them.
We foster inclusion, ensuring everyone can bring their whole self to work, leveraging unique talents, backgrounds, and expertise to drive transformational outcomes for our clients.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environments for flexibility
- Industry-leading technology and thinking
- Transformative work with significant impact
- Nominal family and employee well-being programs catering to diverse needs
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we celebrate the potential in every individual to ensure your growth aligns with our goals. We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability or long-term condition and meet the minimum criteria, we will offer you an interview. For help applying, contact us at [email-protected].
Location Details
- State/Province: London, City of
- Business Group: DCS
- Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
- Business Line: Advisory
- Work Location Model: Hybrid
- Operating Group: International
- Primary Location: UK - London - Aldgate Tower
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