Advisory Consultant Opportunities

AECOM; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking dynamic management consultants to support capital investment programs and transformation projects. The role involves building client relationships, developing analytical frameworks, and coaching junior staff. Candidates should have strong communication skills, a passion for innovation, and expertise in consulting practices. Positions are available across the UK in a fast-paced, supportive environment focused on mentorship and collaboration.

Benefits

Strong culture of mentorship

Career development pathways

Opportunity to impact communities

Qualifications

• Experience in managing client relationships and delivering consulting engagements.
• Proven ability to develop tailored analytical frameworks for client needs.
• Strong communication skills to create executive-ready presentations.

Responsibilities

• Building relationships with clients throughout the engagement lifecycle.
• Managing inputs from leadership and technical experts for project delivery.
• Creating highly-polished executive presentations and reports.

Skills

Client engagement management

Analytical frameworks development

Stakeholder interviewing

Coaching and mentoring

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!