Principal Management Consultant

Start here. Grow here.

Were 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. 

Heres what youll do

Youll 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 youll help shape and deliver it with curiosity judgement and confidence. 

Youll plan lead and deliver strategy-led change and transformation initiatives often in ambiguous environments where the path forward is not yet clear. Youll take ownership of complex cultural and hierarchical stakeholder relationships working credibly with senior leaders while staying closely connected to delivery on the ground. Specifically you will: 

• 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 youre passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality AECOM welcomes you. Join our team where we dont just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects were working on and see firsthand the difference were making in the industry!

Qualifications :

Heres what were looking for

• 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 working collaboratively and lead teams in fast-paced open and creative environments 
• Able to applying judgement 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!

Additional Information :

About AECOM

AECOM is the worlds trusted infrastructure consulting firm delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation buildings water new energy and the environment our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise a culture of equity diversity and inclusion and a commitment to environmental social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether youre working from an AECOM office remote location or at a client site you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time