Business Architect & Org Design Lead

Start here. Grow here.

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 workstreams 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. 

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 :

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 long-term capability.
• Self-motivated and highly driven with a strong focus on execution and delivering results in fast-paced evolving environments.
• Comfortable working at pace managing multiple priorities while maintaining high-quality outputs and stakeholder engagement.
• Confident communicator with the credibility to influence senior stakeholders challenge constructively and build trusted relationships across the business.
• Strong networking and relationship-building skills with the ability to connect people foster collaboration and leverage networks to drive successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
• Postgraduate qualification or relevant professional certification is advantageous.

This is an opportunity to help shape and grow a consulting offer focused on translating strategy into practical change. You will work on high-impact problems for major infrastructure clients lead multi-disciplinary teams and play a visible role in building client relationships capability and delivery excellence within AECOM Advisory. 

Additional Information :

At AECOM we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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