Business Architect & Org Design Lead

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We are seeking a Business Architect & Org Design Lead (Associate Director level) to lead complex client engagements and help grow the Strategy offer in AECOM Advisory. This is a senior consulting delivery role broadly equivalent to Manager level in a management consultancy. You will work with infrastructure public sector and regulated-industry clients to translate strategy into execution through operating model design transformation governance organisation and performance improvement work.

The role combines hands-on problem solving senior stakeholder management team leadership and targeted business development.

About Strategy

Strategy helps organisations solve complex system-level challenges by turning strategy into practical deliverable change. Our work spans capability-led operating model design governance design change and transformation and performance improvement across people process data technology and delivery. Current growth priorities include operating model design change management and performance improvement particularly across sectors such as Energy Water and Defence.

Heres what youll do:

• Lead complex consulting engagements or major work streams from scoping through delivery ensuring high-quality outputs strong project discipline and clear team accountability.
• Design and apply credible efficient and scalable methodologies to solve client problems across operating model development organisation design governance service transformation business change and performance improvement.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders manage expectations confidently and act as a strong day-to-day advisor.
• Translate complex analysis into concise decision-ready recommendations roadmaps and executive-level materials.
• Facilitate workshops and steer cross-functional discussions to align stakeholders around priorities trade-offs and implementation choices.
• Bring a forward-looking perspective to client discussions through horizon scanning market awareness and insight into emerging client challenges.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and connect clients with the right specialists across AECOM to create joined-up solutions.
• Manage scope risk quality and commercial performance intervening early where delivery issues emerge.
• Lead business development by identifying follow-on opportunities contributing to proposals and deepening relationships in priority sectors and target accounts.
• Coach consultants and senior consultants providing clear feedback on structuring analysis story lining and client delivery.
• Support effective team set-up and role allocation so that capability is aligned to client need team development and business priorities.

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Qualifications :

Ready to push the limits of whats possible

Heres what were looking for

• Strong experience in management consulting advisory transformation or in-house strategy / operational improvement roles.
• Proven ability to lead teams on complex ambiguous problems and deliver high-quality work to demanding timelines.
• Strong executive communication skills including the ability to articulate complexity simply and build compelling storylines from data and analysis.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and influencing decisions in client environments.
• Strong commercial judgement including experience scoping work managing delivery risk and supporting proposals or account growth.
• Experience developing target operating models capability maps governance structures implementation roadmaps
• Brings a pragmatic hands-on approach rather than a purely theoretical consulting mindset with experience operating within client environments and delivering practical outcomes.
• Proven ability to develop and embed systematic ways of working creating scalable processes that improve efficiency consistency and…