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Business Architect & Org Design Lead
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Business Architect & Org Design Lead
Join AECOM: Business Architect & Org Design Lead
Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving commutes, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. As the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, we partner 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 our global team of over 50,000 professionals—planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, and more—delivering projects with tangible impact worldwide.
Start Here. Grow Here.
We’re seeking a Business Architect & Org Design Lead (Associate Director level) to lead complex client engagements and help grow Strategy+ in AECOM Advisory. This is a senior consulting 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
The role blends consultative leadership, strategic delivery, stakeholder management, and business development.
About Strategy+
Strategy+ helps organisations solve 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 focus areas include operating model design, change management, and performance improvement, particularly in Energy, Water, and Defence.
Job Description
This is more than a job. It’s a purposeful journey to scale impact at AECOM.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead complex engagements: Scaffold workstreams from scoping to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs, strong project discipline, and clear team accountability.
- Apply credible methodologies: Design and deploy efficient and scalable frameworks for operating models, organisation design, governance, service transformation, business change, and performance improvement.
- Build trusted relationships: Act as a day-to-day advisor to senior clients, manage expectations confidently while fostering mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Translate complexity: Turn intricate analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations, roadmaps, and executive briefings.
- Facilitate alignment: Lead workshops and cross-functional discussions to align stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and implementation choices.
- Horizon scanning: Bring a forward-looking perspective to challenges, integrating market awareness and insight into emerging needs.
- Co-manage multi-disciplinary teams: Curate collaborations across AECOM’s specialists to tackle complex client challenges.
- Manage scope, risk, quality, and performance: Intervene proactively when challenges arise, ensuring commercially viable delivery.
- Driver innovation with growth: Expand the Strategy+ portfolio by identifying follow-on opportunities, contributing to bids, and deepening key-sector relationships.
- Coach consultants: Mentor teams on analysis technique, storytelling, and client-facing communication.
- Shape team setup: Allocate resources to maximize capability, team development, and business objectives.
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Who You Are
AECOM believes in turning bold ideas into meaningful outcomes. Here’s what makes you the ideal fit:
Potential Requirements
- Proven track record in management consulting, advisory, transformation, or internal strategy/operational improvement.
- Ability to lead difficult, ambiguous problems with speed, creativity, and clarity under pressing deadlines.
- Strong executive communication: Simplify complexity and present robust, actionable narratives backed by data.
- Management experience in high-stakes environments, including stakeholder influence and decision-making facilitation.
- Sharp commercial acumen, including work scoping, risk mitigation, client-relationship growth, and proposal contributions.
- Practical experience developing:
- Target operating models
- Capability maps
- Governance structures
- Implementation roadmaps
- A hands-on problem-solver, not just a theorist—versed in client environments and delivering tangible, scaled outcomes.
- System builder: Proven ability to embed structured ways of working that enhance efficiency, consistency, and long-term capabilities.
- Dynamic, goal-oriented, and resilient. Thrives in high-pressure, adaptive environments.
- High credibility with stakeholders; can challenge constructively, earn trust, and collaborate across teams.
- Relationship architect: Leverage networks to connect ideas, foster collaboration, and achieve collective success.
Qualifications & Attributes
- Education: Bachelor’s degree or comparable work experience.
- Preferred: Postgraduate qualifications or relevant professional certifications (recommendations include: PMP, Agile certification, APC, or business architecture certifications).
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Why This Matters
You’ll shape AECOM’s Strategy+ portfolio—translating theoretical strategy into operational excellence. This role offers:
- High-leverage impact on major infrastructure, energy, and national-sector clients.
- Leadership of complex, global teams, fostering client relationships and product capability growth.
- A platform to evolve at AECOM, advancing adeptly into leadership roles.
Additional Information
To safeguard our talent pool, new hires must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office. This is a condition of employment.
About AECOM
As the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, we:
- Deliver professional services across the project lifecycle (advisory, planning, design, engineering).
- Lead transportation, water, energy, and environmental initiatives.
- Drive impact-through-equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI), and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) commitments.
With $16.1 billion in revenue (2025 FY), AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm, creating sustainable legacies for generations.
Unlock your potential at AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
An adaptive work culture engineered for you:
- Flexible, hybrid work model: Remote, client sites, or in-office, your dynamic doesn’t dictate your growth.
- Colleges to change the world: Use innovative tools, collaboration, and autonomy to drive outcomes.
- Whole self at work: Community and support ensure you thrive personally and professionally.
- Aligned goals: AECOM champions entrepreneurial acumen and pioneering talent:
- Compensation, benefits, and well-being support built around your needs.
- Global-scale growth: Fast-tracking your recognition, revenue, influence, and impact.
- A transparent and fair playing field for all.
Join us: An Equal Opportunity Employer, AECOM values potential, passion, and priceless expertise.
We’re a Disability Confident Employer. Qualified candidates with disabilities or long-term conditions meeting these criteria will be interviewed through our Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
Interested?
Apply now and enhance the way we work—and the way the world lives. AECOM is in this together.
Location: London; Model: Hybrid
- Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
- Business Group: DCS
- Business Line: Advisory
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