Manager, Advisory (Part Time)

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Job Description

Role:

As a Manager in AECOM Advisory, your day-to-day role will be to architect, lead and manage client engagements. These tasks will include, but not be limited to:

• 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 modelling (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.

In addition, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to business development, through:

• Supporting Capture Managers with specific elements of proposal responses, including: narrative development, technical solutions development (incl. technical writing), pricing, team definition, subcontractor engagement, internal risk review, and compliance procedures.

• Creating pitch decks and defining AECOM Advisory’s value proposition.

• Bringing commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, researching client contexts.

Required competencies include:

• Strong interpersonal skills, client-service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients.

• Ability to collaborate with internal teams across broad geographies and numerous different business lines

• Work in a high-tempo, high-context client-facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure.

• Able to be self-directed, anticipatory and responsive to iterative feedback.

• Outstanding attention to detail.

• Exceptional numerical reasoning and quantitative skills.

• Sharp analytical, logical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills, employing abstraction techniques to solve ambiguous client problems, and ingest and parse out large volumes of client information.

• Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view