Contractor Market Design Lead

AECOM; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM seeks a Contractor Market Design Lead to grow Building Engineering in Ireland. This leadership role expands the sale and delivery of design services to Design & Build contractors and key delivery partners.

You will shape strategy, strengthen client relationships, and position AECOM to win and deliver major building projects. The role requires leading BD, bids, and multi-disciplinary delivery in a dynamic, hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Proven success in growing business with contractor clients.
• Strong network within the Irish contractor market.
• Experience leading business development, bidding and project delivery.
• Commercially aware with strong leadership and stakeholder skills.
• Experience of leading Building Engineering design service delivery.
• Ability to influence and lead multi-disciplinary teams.
• A passion for building engineering design.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver a contractor market growth strategy for Building Engineering.
• Build and manage relationships with key Design & Build contractors and partners.
• Identify and shape opportunities, maintaining a strong pipeline of work.
• Drive account planning, bids and major pursuits.
• Increase AECOM's visibility in the contractor-led market.
• Collaborate across our Building Engineering teams to secure and successfully deliver multidisciplinary projects.
• Champion client experience, team performance, and inclusion.

Skills

Contractor growth

Irish market network

Business development

Leadership & stakeholders

Building engineering design

Multi-disciplinary leadership

Design passion

Job description

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.

AECOM is seeking a Contractor Market Design Lea d to drive growth across our Building Engineering portfolio in Ireland. This is a leadership role with accountability for expanding the sale and delivery of design services to Design & Build contractors and key delivery partners.

You will play a central role in shaping strategy, strengthening client relationships, and positioning AECOM to win and deliver major building projects.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Lead and deliver a contractor market growth strategy for Building Engineering
• Build and manage relationships with key Design & Build contractors and partners
• Identify and shape opportunities, maintaining a strong pipeline of work
• Drive account planning, bids and major pursuits
• Increase AECOM's visibility in the contractor-led market
• Collaborate across our Building Engineering teams to secure and successfully deliver multidisciplinary projects
• Champion client experience, team performance, and inclusion

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days .

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what's possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Proven success in growing business with contractor clients
• Strong network within the Irish contractor market
• Experience leading business development, bidding and project delivery
• Commercially aware with strong leadership and stakeholder skills
• Experience of leading Building Engineering design service delivery
• Ability to influence and lead multi-disciplinary teams
• A passion for building engineering design

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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.

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

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid