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Project Director - Controls Analytics
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Project Director - Controls Analytics
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Job Description
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Our award-winning AECOM Controls team within the Infrastructure & PMO Operating Unit is a trusted partner to public and private sector clients across the UK and globally. We specialise in delivering Controls Analytics across Cost, Risk, Planning and Performance, supporting major infrastructure and capital investment programmes.
We combine best-in-class project controls with advanced analytics to enable clients to make timely, data-driven decisions that improve project outcomes, strengthen governance, and enhance performance across portfolios, programmes, and projects. As part of our continued growth, we are seeking to recruit Project Directors to strengthen our leadership team.
These roles will play a critical part in:
- Leading high-profile client engagements
- Shaping and delivering Controls Analytics solutions
- Driving work-winning and business growth
- Developing our team and capability
These are senior leadership roles with a balance of delivery oversight, strategic advisory, and market-facing responsibilities. You will operate as a trusted advisor to client executives while helping to expand AECOM’s Controls Analytics proposition across key accounts and sectors.
Here's What You'll Do
As a Project Director within Controls Analytics, you will: Lead the definition, mobilisation, and oversight of analytics-enabled project controls services across complex infrastructure programmes and PMOs.
Translate client challenges into practical, scalable solutions, working with multi-disciplinary teams of data engineers, analysts, and project controls professionals while providing solution direction, assurance, and executive-level interpretation of insights.
Play a key role in work-winning, including:
- Shaping bids
- Developing propositions
- Identifying growth opportunities within existing and new client accounts
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Client Leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor to Programme Directors, Sponsors, and senior client stakeholders.
- Provide strategic direction on controls analytics, PMO performance, and data-driven decision-making.
- Translate complex data and controls outputs into clear, actionable executive insights.
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Delivery Oversight & Solution Leadership
- Lead the set-up and oversight of Controls Analytics delivery across projects, programmes, and portfolios.
- Define controls operating models, reporting frameworks, and governance structures.
- Provide direction and assurance to delivery teams (data engineers, analysts, controls specialists).
- Ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, scalable, and aligned to client outcomes.
Controls Analytics and PMO Transformation
- Shape and implement integrated controls analytics approaches covering cost, schedule, risk, change, and performance.
- Oversee the development of executive reporting, dashboards, and KPI frameworks.
- Drive adoption of insight-driven performance management and proactive intervention.
- Support clients in improving controls maturity, data quality, and governance.
Work Winning & Business Development
- Play a leading role in bids, proposals, and client pursuits.
- Develop and articulate compelling Controls Analytics propositions aligned to market needs.
- Identify and drive organic growth opportunities within existing client engagements.
- Build strong external relationships to enhance AECOM’s market presence.
Team & Capability Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing, multidisciplinary teams.
- Foster a consultancy mindset, ensuring teams deliver value beyond core scope.
- Contribute to the development of methods, tools, and accelerators.
- Support recruitment, succession planning, and capability growth aligned to business strategy.
Risk, Change & Performance Insight Leadership
- Ensure integration of risk, contingency, and scenario analytics into controls frameworks.
- Guide development of change analytics and forecasting models to support decision-making.
- Enable clients to move from retrospective reporting to predictive and forward-looking insights.
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 but uplift communities and enhance lives.
Qualifications: Here’s What We're Looking For
- Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Data/Analytics, or related discipline.
- Professional certifications (APM, PMI, MSP, RICS, AACE, or similar) desirable.
- Typically 15+ years’ experience across project/programme controls, PMO leadership, and/or consultancy.
Skills & Experience
Leadership & Consulting
- Proven experience operating at senior leadership level within complex programmes or consultancy environments.
- Strong track record in client engagement, influencing senior stakeholders, and leading delivery teams.
- Commercial awareness with experience contributing to work-winning and account growth.
Controls & Domain Expertise
- Deep understanding of project controls disciplines: cost, planning, risk, change, and performance.
- Experience across major infrastructure or capital programmes in sectors such as transport, energy, water, or defence.
- Strong appreciation of PMO delivery models and governance structures.
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Analytics & Digital Understanding
- Strong understanding of controls analytics solutions, dashboards, and performance frameworks.
- Familiarity with tools such as Power BI, Primavera P6, PRISM, Autodesk Construct Connect (Aconex), and data architectures.
- Ability to guide teams on data integration, modelling, and insight generation and not direct technical build.
Additional Information
At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle:
- Advisory, planning, design, and engineering
- Program and construction management
From transportation to buildings, water, new energy, and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams thrive through:
- Unrivaled technical and digital expertise
- Culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Commitment to environmental, social, and governance priorities
AECOM is a Fortune 500 Firm with Professional Services revenue of $16.1 billion for fiscal year 2025. Learn more at aecom.com or @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
- Enjoy flexibility in your work environment with hybrid work options allowing you to work from AECOM offices, remotely, or at client sites.
- Work in a dynamic environment supporting your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit, and pioneering mindset.
“We invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using unique talents, backgrounds, and expertise to create transformational outcomes.”
- AECOM offers a wide array of compensation, benefits, and well-being programs to support diverse employee and family needs.
Join a global, publicly traded firm, gaining:
- Industry-leading technology and innovative thinking
- Transformational work with big impact and work flexibility
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, AECOM believes in everyone’s potential and supports your growth and success.
We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you meet the minimum/essential criteria for this role and would like to apply through our Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please contact ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com.
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