Associate Consultant - Advisory

Role overview

Advisory and delivery responsibilities

• Lead transformation, operating model, and organizational effectiveness workstreams; advise clients on challenges and improvement opportunities.
• Assess governance, operating models, capabilities, and organizational performance; design target operating models, governance frameworks, and structures.
• Develop transformation roadmaps, implementation plans, and business cases; facilitate workshops and present findings to senior stakeholders.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams; manage workstream plans, risks, dependencies, quality, governance, and performance monitoring.
• Coach consultants and senior consultants, and ensure delivery meets client expectations and project objectives.

Business development

• Contribute to proposals, bids, client pursuits, growth opportunities, thought leadership, and capability development.
• Build and maintain client relationships across the market.

Qualifications

• 8 to 12 years of experience in consulting, advisory, transformation, or organizational change.
• Experience leading workstreams or projects in complex transformation programs and working with senior client stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in operating model design, organizational effectiveness, governance, or transformation.
• Experience leading teams, managing delivery, and supporting business development; commercial awareness.
• Relevant experience with Middle East government, built environment, real estate, infrastructure, transport, utilities, water, energy, or development organizations.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills; bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.

Client workplace

• Spend part of the week at client locations in Abu Dhabi, working directly with stakeholders to shape solutions and support implementation.
• New hires must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office.

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