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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. Our work helps people and communities thrive—whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing clean water, or transforming city skylines. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
There has never been a better time to be part of AECOM. With growing global infrastructure investment, our services are in demand. Join a global team of over 50,000 professionals—planners, designers, engineers, and scientists—delivering meaningful projects worldwide.
We’re one global team driven by our mission to deliver a better world. Join us.
Job Description
Start here. Grow here.
We are seeking a Business Architect & Organisation Design Lead (equivalent to Associate Director) to lead complex client engagements and expand the Strategy+ consulting offer within AECOM Advisory. This is a senior consulting role, comparable to a Manager level in a management consultancy firm.
Your role:
- Work with infrastructure, public sector, and regulated-industry clients to translate strategy into execution.
- Focus on operating model design, transformation, governance, organisation, and performance improvement.
What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities)
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Lead complex engagements & projects
- Manage end-to-end consulting projects from scoping to delivery, ensuring high-quality outputs, discipline, and team accountability.
- Drive major workstreams aligned with client goals.
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Designed for impact
- Develop efficient, scalable methodologies for organisational design, transformation, governance, and performance improvement.
- Simplify complex analysis into clear, decision-ready recommendations, roadmaps, and executive deliverables.
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Senior stakeholder & client leadership
- Build trusted relationships with senior clients.
- Influence decisions, manage expectations, and act as a trusted advisor.
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Strategic workshop facilitation
- Lead cross-functional workshops to align stakeholders on priorities, trade-offs, and implementation strategies.
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Future-focused problem-solving
- Bring emerging industry trends, market insights, and horizon scanning to client discussions.
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Cross-team coordination
- Assemble and manage multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring the right specialists from AECOM are deployed.
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Risk & quality management
- Oversee scope, commercial performance, and project health, intervening early on risks.
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Business development
- Identify follow-on opportunities, contribute to proposals, and strengthen relationships in high-priority sectors (e.g., Energy, Water, Defence).
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Consultant development
- Coach senior consultants and consultants, fostering growth in analysis, storytelling, and client delivery skills.
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Team optimisation
- Ensure capability aligns with client needs, team development, and business priorities.
About Strategy+
Strategy+ helps organisations tackle systemic challenges by turning strategy into actionable change. Our focus areas:
- Operating model design
- Governance & transformation
- Performance improvement (across people, process, data, and technology).
- Fastest-growing sectors: Energy, Water, and Defence.
Qualifications (Key Requirements)
What You Bring:
- Consulting/advisory, transformation or in-house strategy/operational experience at a senior level.
- Proven ability to:
- Lead teams on complex, ambiguous problems within tight deadlines.
- Simplify and articulate complex issues in compelling, leadership-ready formats.
- Manage senior stakeholders and influence decisions.
- Apply strong commercial judgement for work scoping, risk management, and business development.
- Operational mindset: Hands-on experience in organisational design, target operating models, governance, and implementation roadmaps—not just theoretical approaches.
- Systemic thinking: Capability to scale processes, improve efficiency, and drive long-term capability within clients.
- Adaptability: Thrives in fast-paced, changing environments while maintaining high quality, discipline, and stakeholder engagement.
- Credibility & influence: Confident communicator who can challenge constructively, build trust with executive teams, and leverage networks.
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Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Advantageous: Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification.
Additional Information
AECOM Commitments:
- Secure recruitment process: In-person Day 1 onboarding is mandatory at AECOM offices.
- Global impact: Partner with the world’s leading infrastructure consultancy, driving sustainable change through expertise in transportation, buildings, water, energy, and the environment.
- Diversity & inclusion: AECOM champions an equitable, diverse, and welcoming culture. Staff bring their full selves to work to create transformational outcomes.
Career Development & Well-being:
- Opportunity: Help shape and grow AECOM’s consulting strategy, influencing major infrastructure projects worldwide.
- Flexibility: Hybrid work model—work from AECOM offices, remote locations, or client sites.
- Growth focus: Your potential matters—AECOM supports your development via industry-leading resources and transformational work.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
- AEOM is committed to providing fair and inclusive opportunities.
- Disability Confident Employer: Interview opportunities for applicants with disabilities meeting role criteria.
- All information is handled securely under EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10153991 Location Model: Hybrid Business Unit: Advisory Strategic Group: DCS Europe & India Career Area: Consulting Services
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