Manager, Advisory

About the role

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Manager (Managing Consultant/Engagement Manager) to support our growing global Advisory business line. We are seeking talented management consultants to join AECOM Advisory who are mission-driven for the role of our clients in supporting economic, environmental and social vibrancy.

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, Directors, 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 novel client-specific needs.
• Drive (outline, supervise, and provide quality control over) delivery teams comprised of 5-8 Consultants and Senior Consultants across multiple and inter-dependent workstreams in:
• Applying existing and hypothesizing new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalize, and analyze client problems.
• Leveraging AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.
• Conducting stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
• Conducting business modeling (market sizing, segmentation, penetration, adoption) and investment analysis by building custom discounted cash flow (DCF) Excel models to calculate revenue, cost-benefit analyses (CBA), EBITDA, NPV, IRR, CAGR for client’s policies, projects and programs.
• Leveraging analytical and data visualization tools (e.g., ArcGIS, Costar, IMPLAN, Python, Tableau) to derive patterns, trends and insights from client and third-party datasets to inform client recommendations.
• Creating highly-polished executive-ready decks as you work, to build buy-in and convey emerging data-driven insights.
• Synthesizing 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 5 years of management consulting or corporate strategy experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Preferred: MBA, or other Master’s degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields.
• Fluency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel.
• Strong technical skills, including experience with one or more of the following software packages: ArcGIS and other spatial analysis tools, Quantitative/statistical programs such as R or Python, Evaluation of financial cashflows, particularly public finance, via Excel.