Principal Management Consultant

Overview

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 with senior decision-makers across public and private sectors to navigate complexity and build resilient, inclusive, future-ready businesses. We value trusted relationships, client understanding, collaboration, and bespoke solutions that address real challenges and deliver meaningful outcomes.

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.

• 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

• 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 judgment and empathy to support clients of differing capabilities and seniority through challenging and sometimes uncomfortable change journeys
• If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

AECOM is the world s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle—from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world, with a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. We are a Fortune 500 firm, and our services span transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity. We offer hybrid work options, a safe and respectful workplace, and a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Disability Confident Employer. Details for reasonable accommodations are available at Reaso

All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. This role is based in Manchester, United Kingdom, and is described as Hybrid with related location details as applicable.