Associate Consultant - Advisory

Role Overview

Client Leadership and Advisory

• Lead transformation, operating model, and organisational-effectiveness workstreams.
• Advise stakeholders on organisational challenges and improvement opportunities.
• Assess governance, operating models, capabilities, and organisational performance.
• Design target operating models, governance frameworks, and organisational structures.
• Develop transformation roadmaps, implementation plans, and business cases.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement; present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Delivery Leadership

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams and coordinate delivery activities.
• Manage workstream plans, risks, dependencies, and quality assurance.
• Ensure outcomes meet client expectations and project objectives.
• Support programme governance and performance monitoring.
• Coach and develop consultants and senior consultants.

Business Development

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

Qualifications and Experience

• 8 to 12 years of experience in consulting, advisory, transformation, or organisational change.
• Experience leading workstreams or projects in complex transformation programmes and working with senior client stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience in operating model design, organisational effectiveness, governance, or transformation.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills; experience leading teams and managing project delivery.
• Direct client-stakeholder experience in complex organisational environments.
• Comfortable working within client teams and spending time at client locations to support delivery, engagement, and decision-making.
• Commercial awareness and experience supporting business development activities.
• Experience with government, built environment, real estate, infrastructure, transport, utilities, water, energy, or development organisations in the Middle East.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.

Client Locations

• Spend a proportion of the week working from client locations in Abu Dhabi to shape solutions, support implementation, engage stakeholders, and help ensure delivery.

Benefits and Onboarding

• Depending on employment status, benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, disability, paid time off, flexible work options, well-being resources, and other listed programmes.
• New hires are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office as a condition of employment.

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