Advisory Consultant Opportunities

AECOM; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global advisory firm in the UK is seeking dynamic management consultants to join their team. This role involves building client relationships, managing engagements, and developing tailored analytical frameworks. Candidates should have strong analytical skills, experience in stakeholder interviews, and the ability to mentor junior staff. The firm prides itself on a culture of mentorship and collaborative problem-solving, making it a great place for professional development and personal growth.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing client engagement lifecycles.
• Ability to tailor analytical methodologies for client-specific needs.
• Experience in mentoring junior consultants.

Responsibilities

• Build client relationships and manage engagements.
• Architect new analytical frameworks as needed.
• Create executive-ready presentations to engage stakeholders.

Skills

Building client relationships

Analytical frameworks

Stakeholder interviews

Coaching and mentoring

Technical writing

Commercial acumen

Job description

Responsibilities

• Building client relationships and managing interactions throughout the engagement lifecycle, bringing clients into engagement delivery and iteratively building their buy-in.
• Upwardly and laterally manage the inputs from regional leadership, 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.
• Independently tailor existing/proven analytical frameworks and methodologies for client-specific needs.
• In collaboration with leadership, architect new analytical frameworks and methodologies for client-specific needs.
• Applying existing and hypothesising new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalise, and analyse client problems.
• Leveraging AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.
• Conducting stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
• Creating highly-polished executive-ready decks as you work, to build buy-in and convey emerging data‑driven insights.
• Synthesising multiple inputs into coherent insights across a variety of formats; slide decks, written narrative, playbooks, dashboards and toolkits.
• Proactively coach and mentor junior staff on developing core consulting skills.
• Supporting Capture Managers with specific elements of proposal responses, including: narrative development, technical solutions development (incl. technical writing), pricing, team definition, subcontractor engagement, internal risk review, and compliance procedures.
• Creating pitch decks and defining AECOM Advisory's value proposition.
• Bringing commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, researching client contexts.

Company Overview

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic professionals at all levels to support our growing global Advisory business. We are seeking talented management consultants to join AECOM Advisory who are mission‑driven for the role of our clients in supporting capital investment programmes, transformation projects and asset enhancement initiatives. Roles can be based anywhere in the UK.

Building off AECOM's considerable expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs. We deliver projects across the infrastructure market, with a current focus on aviation, defence, energy and water. Our team of 400 staff globally comprises business and policy analysts, economists, commercial strategists, technology architects, as well as human capital and change management practitioners. We help our clients develop their strategy, improve their operational performance, and integrate digital systems to generate value for their stakeholders and impact for their communities. We are a new category of consulting firm; one that builds off true operational and technical expertise of our broader platform to bring industry depth and capability‑driven insight to the clients we serve. You will join a fast‑paced and supportive team of diverse consulting professionals. We pride ourselves on our strong culture of mentorship and collaborative problem‑solving, our mission of addressing our client’s most complex and impactful problems, paired with career pathways that nurtures professional development and personal growth.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't 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 we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!