Associate Director, AECOM Advisory

Job Summary

The Associate Director in AECOM Advisory will support a variety of service areas, including economics, real estate, planning, and climate services. The role involves driving business development, overseeing project delivery, and contributing to the Advisory strategy. Strong client‑management, technical, communication, and leadership skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Leveraging industry expertise and commercial acumen to proactively target, define, and shape business development strategy.
• Leading project delivery across multiple and inter‑dependent workstreams.
• Leading client interactions on delivery progress and insight validation, including with C‑suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
• Managing inputs from regional leadership, Directors, Client Account Managers, and technical experts to flag key delivery choices, considerations, and risks related to technical scope, client satisfaction, and commercial constraints.
• Designing analytical workstreams and delegating tasks accordingly to project teams.
• Providing timely quality assurance and control over scope, assumptions, analyses, and insights.
• Leading highly‑polished deliverable production to meet client expectations and firm standards.
• Delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Supporting overall operational performance improvement, thought leadership, and innovation for the Advisory business line.
• Managing all aspects of proposal responses as Capture Manager, including narrative development, coordination across multiple teams to develop technical solutions, pricing, team definition, subcontractor engagement, internal risk review, and compliance procedures.
• Engaging in industry conversations and professional networks to identify and originate business development opportunities.
• Managing and mentoring other staff on the team.

Required Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills, client‑service mindset, and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.
• Experience in a high‑tempo client‑facing environment, maintaining poise and maturity under pressure.
• Self‑directed, anticipatory, and comfortable working across a highly‑matrixed consulting organization.
• Solid verbal communication and narrative development skills, summarizing and conveying key insights to C‑suite and senior management audiences.
• Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point‑of‑view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and advanced understanding of client industries and their context.
• Collegial team‑player who can work within a growing motivated team of diverse consulting professionals.
• Domain expertise in at least two of the following areas:
  • Corporate or enterprise strategy, market analysis, and target operating model design
  • Organizational assessment, business transformation, and performance improvement
  • Capital projects advisory, including project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal, capital improvement planning, asset management, portfolio strategy
  • Decarbonization, climate action implementation, resilience strategies and frameworks including non‑financial valuation methodologies
  • Economic development, industrial policy, broadband & digital equity, and market transformation
  • Technology‑led business transformation
  • Corporate finance, valuations, M&A, divestitures, divestments and privatizations

Qualifications

Minimum Requirement

• 10 years of strategic, financial, or management consulting and/or related industry experience, including 2 years of leadership, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Bachelor’s Degree.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12+ years of related industry experience.
• MBA, or other Master’s degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields.
• Fluency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel.
• Strong technical skills, including experience with one or more of the following software packages:
  • ArcGIS and other spatial analysis tools
  • Quantitative/statistical programs such as R or Python
  • Evaluation of financial cashflows, particularly public finance, via Excel

Immigration Sponsorship

This position will not offer sponsorship now or in the future.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position is $140,000 to $190,000 per year, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Benefits

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well‑being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in your potential and are here to help you achieve it. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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