Associate Director - Advisory

Role overview

Client leadership and advisory

• Advise senior executives and government leaders; lead discussions to understand client challenges, opportunities, and objectives.
• Facilitate executive workshops, stakeholder engagement, and decision-making forums.
• Translate complex analysis into actionable recommendations and implementation plans; build long-term client relationships.

Strategy and transformation

• Lead strategy, transformation, and organisational-improvement engagements.
• Design capability-led target operating models and develop governance, performance, and accountability frameworks.
• Lead organisation design and business architecture initiatives; develop roadmaps that translate strategic ambition into delivery.

Infrastructure and practice growth

• Advise organisations responsible for infrastructure, transport, mobility, utilities, energy, and development programmes.
• Support organisational readiness and capability linked to major investment; connect organisational transformation with programme delivery.
• Support proposals, bids, client pursuits, regional business development, and development of advisory methodologies and propositions.

People leadership

• Lead and develop teams; coach and mentor consultants and managers; support recruitment and capability development.
• Support effective resourcing, organisational change, and implementation; ensure project outputs meet high standards and deliver measurable value.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in consulting, advisory, transformation, or organisational change environments.
• Experience with government or Middle East organisations in the built environment, real estate, infrastructure, transport, utilities, water, energy, or development.
• Experience leading complex client engagements from inception through delivery and advising senior executives and government stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, multidisciplinary team leadership, and multi-workstream capabilities.
• Strong commercial awareness and client relationship management; excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Success outcomes

Recruitment and workplace information

• Newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.

About AECOM

• Benefits may include health, disability, leave, voluntary benefits, well-being resources, business travel insurance, retirement savings, and employee stock-purchase plans, depending on employment status.
• AECOM describes itself as a global infrastructure professional-services firm serving public- and private-sector clients.