Sports Managing Principal- Americas

Company Description

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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.

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Job Description

AECOM Buildings + Places is looking for a dynamic leader to usher our AECOM Sports Practice- Americas into the next chapter of industry leading excellence. Position to be based in Los Angeles, Kansas City, or New York, NY. The right person will bring a combination of entrepreneurialism, holistic leadership, and passion for leveraging interdisciplinary capabilities towards making a better world through the communities and cultures supported by integrated sports and entertainment projects.

Our Sports studio is an established leader in the market with over three decades of success. This large practice focuses it’s work on everything from performance and development facilities to primary competition venues, ranging anywhere from small collegiate clients to the largest of professional leagues and franchises.  We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.

Our Buildings + Places Business Line embodies the spirit of a nimble, fully integrated design firm within a fully global infrastructure organization. Our culture is dynamic, offering autonomy and the feel of a smaller, collaborative studio backed by the resources of a large interdisciplinary firm. Services include architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism, and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy +, economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management.  This diverse team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create.

Job Summary/Responsibilities

• Responsible for the growth, profitability, and strategy for AECOM Buildings + Places, Americas Sports Practice.
• Drives execution of tactical business plans in collaboration with regional business line leader.
• Works with the regional business line leader, global market sector leaders and account management leads to grow a profitable business by developing and implementing location specific growth plans.
• Represents AECOM as a leader in the Sports architecture industry.
• Provides industry leadership across the sports market.
• Manages and leads client relationships.
• Provides guidance and coaching to business development, account management and other staff.
• Is a member of the region management team, focused on optimizing the overall performance of the region.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design Architecture or related field plus twelve (12) years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including four (4) years in leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Design Architecture
• Proven record of developing new Buildings and Design for clients in the collegiate and professional sports and recreation market.
• Extensive experience in the collegiate athletics market.
• Ability to develop new business in the market place.
• Ability to recruit and attract top industry talent.
• Core competencies in professional staff development and retention are critical
• Ability to perform individually in a competitive environment
• Superior ability to satisfy clients and manage company’s association with them
• Member of Buildings and Design Professional or Technical Society

Additional Information

• Sponsorship is not available for this opportunity 

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