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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) – AECOM Advisory
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 to a global team of over 50,000 professionals—planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers—delivering projects that create positive and tangible impact around the world.
We’re one global team driven by our common purpose: delivering 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 and help grow AECOM’s Strategy+ Advisory offer. This senior consulting delivery role is 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 combines hands-on problem-solving, senior stakeholder management, team leadership, and targeted business development.
About Strategy+
Strategy+ delivers solutions for complex system-level challenges, turning strategy into practical, deliverable change. Our expertise spans:
- Capability-led operating model design
- Governance design
- Change and transformation
- Performance improvement (people, process, data, technology, and delivery)
Current growth priorities include:
- Operating model design
- Change management
- Performance improvement (Focusing on sectors like Energy, Water, and Defence.)
Key Responsibilities
Core Delivery & Leadership
- Lead complex consulting engagements or major workstreams, ensuring high-quality outputs, strong project discipline, and clear team accountability.
- Design and apply creible, efficient, and scalable methodologies to solve client problems in:
- Operating model development
- Organisation design
- Goverance
- Service transformation
- Business change
- Performance improvement
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, manage expectations confidently, and act as a strong day-to-day advisor.
- Translate complex analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations, roadmaps, and executive-level materials.
- Facilitate workshops and steer cross-functional discussions to align stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and implementation choices.
- Bring a forward-looking perspective through horizon scanning, market awareness, and insights into emerging client challenges.
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Team & Commercial Management
- Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, connecting clients with the right AECOM specialists to create joined-up solutions.
- Manage scope, risk, quality, and commercial performance, intervening early at the sign of delivery issues.
- Lead business development by:
- Identifying follow-on opportunities
- Contributing to proposals
- Strengthening relationships in target sectors (global clients, energy, water, defence).
Consultant Development
- Coach consultants and senior consultants on structuring, analysis, storytelling, and client delivery.
- Optimise team set-up and role allocation, ensuring capability aligns with client needs, team development, and business priorities.
Requirements & Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
✅ Strategic experience in:
- Management consulting, advisory, transformation, or in-house strategy/operational roles.
- Leading teams on complex, ambiguous problems with delivery to demanding timelines.
✅ Strong communication & influencing skills:
- Articulate technical complexity simply for executives.
- Influence senior stakeholders and challenge assumptions constructively.
- Maintain effective stakeholder engagement while managing multiple priorities.
✅ Methodological excellence & pragmatism:
- Proven ability to develop target operating models, capability maps, governance structures, and implementation roadmaps.
- Operate within client environments rather than relying purely on theoretical frameworks.
- Drive long-term performance improvement through systematic, scalable processes.
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✅ Business acumen & cross-functional leadership:
- Commercial judgement (scoping work, risk management, growth contribution).
- Capability to manage budgets, deliver ROI, and sustain momentum in dynamic environments.
- Networking expertise for relationship-building and leveraging partnerships.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience).
- Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification is advantageous.
Why Join AECOM?
Impact & Growth
- Solve high-impact infrastructure challenges for global clients.
- Shape and grow AECOM’s consulting framework—focusing on strategy → execution.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams and client relationships, driving capability and delivery excellence.
Culture & Culture
Our purpose is delivering a better world. As part of our global team, you’ll join a hybrid-first culture that balances flexibility and collaboration. We champion:
- Entrepreneurial spirit and integrity
- Diversity of thought, background, and expertise
- Environmental, social, and governance commitments
Compensation & Benefits
AECOM offers a diverse benefit package including:
- Competitive compensation aligned with global expertise.
- Career development tailored to your long-term ambitions.
- Hybrid work flexibility and global hybrid meeting access.
- State-of-the-art technology infrastructure and unprecedented hands-on experience.
Social Commitment
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and believe in every person’s potential. Disability Confident Employer: We will offer an interview to applicants with a material ‘disability’ or long-term condition* who meet the minimum criteria. Contact ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com for assistance in applying.
*We define disability under U.K. law (Equality Act 2010).
Additional Considerations
- All newly hired employees must complete in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.
ReqID: J10153991 Location: Hybrid model (Internationally, with focus in Europe & India) Career Area: Consulting Services Business Group: Advisory
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