Associate Consultant - Business Change & Transformation

AECOM; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Consultant in Business Change & Transformation to join their dynamic team in Birmingham. This role offers the opportunity to lead major client engagements and drive strategic initiatives that deliver measurable value. The ideal candidate will possess strong emotional intelligence and the ability to navigate complex scenarios while building trusting relationships with stakeholders. Join a global team dedicated to delivering impactful solutions and fostering innovation. This is your chance to make a difference and grow in a supportive environment that values collaboration and continuous learning.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Professional development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Health and wellness programs

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience leading complex change initiatives.
• Ability to adapt in uncertain scenarios and pivot as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements to drive strategic initiatives.
• Plan and deliver change initiatives to achieve desired outcomes.

Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Change Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Systems Thinking

Education

Degree in Business or related field

PROSCI or APMG certification

Job description

Associate Consultant - Business Change & Transformation

AECOM Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Associate Business Change & Transformation Consultant

Strategy+ is AECOM’s Management Consultancy team. Strategy+ operates Globally and assists clients to make sense of complexity, articulate their challenges and deliver solutions that improve their performance. Drawing on the vast expertise of AECOM's capabilities, S+ crafts innovative approaches and offers guidance in planning and executing transformational changes.

We are recruiting an Associate Business Change & Transformation Consultant to join the UK and Ireland team.

As Associate Consultant you will lead major client engagements, providing expert advice and guidance to drive strategic initiatives and deliver measurable value. This role involves working with leaders and Execs to design and oversee the implementation of tailored change and transformation solutions that deliver desired short- and long-term objectives and outcomes.

As part of the Strategy+ team you will be leading pieces of work, fully accountable for delivering to quality and cost agreements and reporting to one of our Associate Directors. Depending on size and scale of the clients ambition you could be the sole lead, leading a bigger delivery team, or working as part of a larger multi-skilled team.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Invest time with clients to listen well, understanding their needs and existing operations.
• Build strong trusting relationships with relevant stakeholders that enable you to provide expert Change and Transformation advice, insight and challenge.
• Plan and deliver strategic change and transformation initiatives that achieve desire business or behaviour change outcomes.
• Monitor progress and adjust approach as needed to ensure success.
• Produce and present information to the highest quality.

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!

Qualifications

Here’s what we are looking for:

• Emotionally intelligent and self-aware of your behaviours in different situations.
• Well prepared, but also able to pivot and adapt in complex, uncertain, or ambiguity scenarios.
• A leader in your profession, evidenced when you are responsible for delivery, but also when you are working as part of a wider collaborative team.
• A systems thinker, able to make sense of complexity by seeing and understanding problems at an interconnected macro scale.
• A good communicator and narrator, able to commit your ideas in text and speech
• An experienced facilitator of stakeholders. Where you encounter conflicting perspectives or priorities you can adapt to ensure you still gain insights, consensus or action.
• A mentor to your colleagues enhancing the wider team’s knowledge of change and transformation approaches to build a resilient skill base and culture of continuous learning.
• A proficient internal and external networker identifying and pursuing opportunities for the growth of Strategy+.

Experience

• Certified practitioner through PROSCI or APMG or membership of relevant professional body.
• Demonstrable experience leading complex change and/or transformation at scale and pace within a consultancy or inhouse team.
• Sector experience in infrastructure, specifically aviation, rail, defence, energy, water or highways sectors would be desirable, but is not mandatory.

Applying for this role!

Please include a cover letter with your application outlining your motivation for applying and how your relevant experience and skills meet the key requirements of the role.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10113663

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Consulting Services

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Legal Entity: AECOM Limited

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• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

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  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Architecture and Planning, Civil Engineering, and Construction

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