Associate Director / Director, AECOM Advisory

Description

• Provide timely quality assurance and control over scope, assumptions, analyses and insights.
• 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.
• Lead in narrative formulation and highly-polished deliverable production to meet client expectations and firm standards.
• Evaluation of financial cashflows, particularly public finance, via Excel.
• Responsibility for project financial performance and supporting overall practice area operational performance improvement, thought leadership and IP generation.
• Drive (outline, supervise, and provide quality control over) multiple delivery teams comprised of 5-8 Consultants and Senior Consultants across multiple and inter-dependent workstreams:Lead client interactions on delivery progress and insight validation and plan interactions including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.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.Design analytical workstreams and share guidance to engagement teams.Provide timely quality assurance and control over scope, assumptions, analyses and insights.Lead in narrative formulation and highly-polished deliverable production to meet client expectations and firm standards.
• Managing all aspects of proposal responses as Capture Manager, including: narrative development, coordinate across multiple teams to develop technical solutions, pricing, team definition, subcontractor engagement, internal risk review, and compliance procedures.
• Proactively coach and mentor junior staff on developing core consulting skills.
• Lead client interactions on delivery progress and insight validation and plan interactions including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
• Leveraging industry expertise and commercial acumen to proactively target, define and shape business development campaigns.
• Capital projects advisory, including project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal, capital improvement planning, asset management, portfolio strategy.
• Design analytical workstreams and share guidance to engagement teams.
• Corporate or enterprise strategy, market analysis and target operating model design.

Requirements

• Organizational assessment, business transformation and performance improvement.
• 12 years of related industry experience
• Able to be self-directed, anticipatory and comfortable working across a highly-matrixed consulting organization.
• Decarbonization, climate action implementation, resilience strategies and frameworks incl. non-financial valuation methodologies.
• At least 8 years of strategic, financial, or management consulting and/or related industry experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Quantitative/statistical programs such as R or Python
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Solid verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C-suite and senior management audiences.
• MBA, or other Master’s degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields.
• Work in a high-tempo, high-context client-facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal skills, client-service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.
• Being present in industry conversations and professional networks to identify and originate business development opportunities.
• Domain expertise in at least two of the following areas:Corporate or enterprise strategy, market analysis and target operating model design.Organizational assessment, business transformation and performance improvement.Capital projects advisory, including project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal, capital improvement planning, asset management, portfolio strategy.Decarbonization, climate action implementation, resilience strategies and frameworks incl. non-financial valuation methodologies.Economic development, industrial policy, broadband & digital equity, and market transformation.Technology-led business transformation.Corporate finance, valuations, M&A, divestitures, divestments and privatizations.
• Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and advanced understanding of client industries and their context.
• Strong technical skills, including experience with one or more of the following software packages:ArcGIS and other spatial analysis toolsQuantitative/statistical programs such as R or PythonEvaluation of financial cashflows, particularly public finance, via Excel.
• Fluency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
• ArcGIS and other spatial analysis tools

Benefits

• Collegial team-player who can work within a small, motivated team of diverse consulting professionals.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance