Vice President, Global Digital Leader - Buildings and Places

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

AECOM is seeking a global digital leader to direct the digital evolution for our Buildings and Places (B+P) business line in 6 key areas:

• Developing, evolving, communicating, and driving the B+P digital strategy for the global business line
• Improving the digital delivery capabilities of B+P teams in partnership with EC, IT, Regional teams, other Global Business Line Digital Leaders, and Global Digital Leader-Strategy Execution.
• Teaming with Digital Consulting leadership to develop new growth strategies and consulting offerings for B+P
• Supporting business line growth through direct engagement in opportunities and premier customers which are representative of the digital future within B+P
• Collaborating with strategic technology partners to define market leading solutions and win “lighthouse” projects
• Provide internal and external thought leadership on the value of digital in B+P market sectors

The Vice President, Global Digital Leader for Buildings and Places will report to the Vice President and Corporate Digital Leader while directly supporting the Buildings and Places Business Line leadership team.

The Global Digital Leader will develop and lead the execution of a global digital strategy that both accelerates transformation and delivers growth, working backwards from both the needs of customers and the business line to form the appropriate strategy.  The global digital leader will be well versed in determining business value as well as digital technologies and architectures that deliver value for the global B+P business and its customers.  This role will be responsible for developing strategic plans for the business, driving alignment across teams, determining the proper technology directions, leveraging AECOM resources and partners to execute the strategies to scale solutions across business lines and geographies, while supporting bids for critical opportunities. 

This leader will also serve as a thought leader internally and externally, assisting our commercial teams in winning new business through differentiating AECOM’s position in the market.  Providing compelling business cases, the global digital leader will secure funding based on measurable business impact and will track progress through adoption.  In addition, this leader will leverage and evolve a digital partner network to accelerate innovation for the business line.

As a member of the global digital leadership team this role will work with professionals around the world to advance AECOM’s global digital strategies and priorities.  The global digital team includes global business line leaders, partner management, AI strategy, and digital consulting services.  The global digital leadership team works closely with our global digital capability center (EC) and IT groups for prototyping, development, scaling and delivery of our digital tools and supports the regional business line teams adopting digital solutions.

Global Buildings and Places line of business

At AECOM, we’re united by a common purpose of delivering a better world.  Our Global Buildings + Places Business brings together a versatile and collaborative team of planning, design, and engineering professionals working to create livable, sustainable and equitable cities to deliver on this vision.

Our global portfolio of work comprises the design of iconic and award-winning buildings and landscapes. From strategic planning through to project realization, the connections we make among people and places provide sustainable outcomes for our clients and the communities we serve. We place a premium on investing in digital capabilities and innovations which bring a unique consistency and efficiency to our scalable work. Our extensive expertise covers urbanism and planning architecture and interiors, building and systems engineering, and cost and project manageme