Principal Management Consultant

About the role

We’re looking for curious, personable strategic and change thinkers to join our growing AECOM Advisory team.

Our team brings together the analytical discipline of management consulting with deep, practical infrastructure experience. We work closely with senior decision-makers across the public and private sectors, helping organisations navigate complexity and build resilient, inclusive, future‑ready businesses.

Trusted relationships sit at the heart of how we work. We take the time to understand our clients, collaborate closely with their teams, and shape bespoke solutions that address real challenges and deliver meaningful outcomes. We put ourselves in our clients’ shoes, draw on the expertise of our global firm and act as a trusted advisor when the stakes are highest.

Our Advisory services are grounded in decades of first‑hand industry experience, strong commercial judgement and a client‑focused culture. Our work spans strategy and transformation, operational excellence, and change management, supporting clients through their most critical decisions and periods of change.

You’ll work with public and private sector clients on complex organisational challenges that sit at the heart of their future ambitions. These challenges demand purposeful change and you’ll help shape and deliver it with curiosity, judgement, and confidence.

You’ll plan, lead, and deliver strategy‑led change and transformation initiatives, often in ambiguous environments where the path forward is not yet clear. You’ll take ownership of complex cultural and hierarchical stakeholder relationships, working credibly with senior leaders while staying closely connected to delivery on the ground.

• Shape clients’ change and transformation plans, ensuring alignment with business cases and wider organisational objectives
• Lead day‑to‑day, client‑facing advisory work, managing delivery, priorities, and relationships
• Think strategically, applying critical analysis and insight to complex problems and uncertain contexts
• Challenge assumptions and options, and present credible, persuasive alternatives that support better decision‑making
• Work as part of collaborative delivery teams across the UK, UAE, and USA
• Build strong relationships across AECOM, including programme management, economics and strategic procurement, as well as engineering, architecture and master planning
• Operate across the full spectrum of consultancy, from advising executive leadership and shaping direction to leading workshops and producing high‑quality outputs
• Build strong relationships with clients, spending time working on client sites across the UK and UAE, as required
• Support and develop junior team members, helping build change and transformation capability for the future

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 also uplift communities and enhance lives. Follow our Linked In page to stay updated on the impactful projects we’re working on and see the difference we’re making in the industry.

• Experience working with public sector clients, alongside exposure to private sector environments
• Evidence of having built trusted relationships within complex, multi‑partner and hierarchical stakeholder environments
• Experience in designing, delivering, and tracking behavioural change and transformation initiatives, with experience shaping organisational culture, branding, and marketing development an advantage
• Understanding of business strategy, governance, capability mapping, capital programme delivery and operating model design
• Able to facilitate and manage conversations across mixed levels of seniority, drawing clear conclusions and driving action‑oriented outcomes
• Able to communicate clearly and credibly in person, in virtual meetings, and through high‑quality written briefings and presentations
• Ability to work collaboratively and lead teams in fast‑paced, open, and creative environments
• Able to apply judgement and empathy to support clients of differing capabilities and seniority through challenging and sometimes uncomfortable…