Manager, Advisory

Company Description

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering 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 h accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Job Description

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Manager (Managing Consultant/Engagement Manager) to support our growing global Advisory business line. We are seeking talented management consultants to join AECOM Advisory who are mission-driven for the role of our clients in supporting economic, environmental and social vibrancy. We are recruiting for this role in the following locations:
Los Angeles, CA;
San Francisco, CA;
Denver, CO;
Chicago, IL.

Building off AECOM's considerable expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs. Projects range from supporting the City of LA adopt their Citywide Housing Incentive Program (CHIP) Ordinance, developing SCAG's Regional Resilience Toolkit, and conducting an Integrated Human Resources Plan for LADWP's Power System.

Role:

As a Manager in AECOM Advisory, your day-to-day role will be to architect, lead and manage client engagements. These tasks will include, but not be limited to:

* Building client relationships and managing interactions throughout the engagement lifecycle, bringing clients into engagement delivery and iteratively building their buy-in.

* Upwardly and laterally manage the inputs from regional leadership, Directors, Client Account Managers, and technical experts to flag key delivery choices, considerations and risks as they relate to technical scope, client satisfaction, and commercial constraints.

* Independently tailor existing/proven analytical frameworks and methodologies for client-specific needs.

* In collaboration with leadership, architect new analytical frameworks and methodologies for novel client-specific needs.

* Drive (outline, supervise, and provide quality control over) delivery teams comprised of 5-8 Consultants and Senior Consultants across multiple and inter-dependent work streams in:

* Applying existing and hypothesizing new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalize, and analyze client problems.

* Leveraging AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.

* Conducting stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.

* Conducting business modelling (market sizing, segmentation, penetration, adoption) and investment analysis by building custom discounted cash flow (DCF) Excel models to calculate revenue, cost-benefit analyses (CBA), EBITDA, NPV, IRR, CAGR for client's policies, projects and programs.

* Leveraging analytical and data visualization tools (e.g., ArcGIS, Costar, IMPLAN, Python, Tableau) to derive patterns, trends and insights from client and third-party datasets to inform client recommendations.

* Creating highly-polished executive-ready decks as you work, to build buy-in and convey emerging data-driven insights.

* Synthesizing multiple inputs into coherent insights across a variety of formats; slide decks, written narrative, playbooks, dashboards and toolkits.

* Proactively coach and mentor junior staff on developing core consulting skills.

In addition, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to business development, through:

* Supporting Capture Managers with specific elements of…