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About the Role
AECOM is seeking a strategic and commercially driven Programme Director to support and drive the growth and delivery of Aviation programmes across the UK & Ireland. This role is focused on winning and delivering major projects (>$5M), building high-value client relationships, and driving excellence in project performance, safety, and operational outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Support and drive the sector’s 3-year growth plan across UK & Ireland, in support of the Sector Director’s strategy
- Lead positioning, client engagement, and bid activity to win Aviation opportunities ≥$5M, including early and enabling packages
- Manage the end-to-end work winning process for major programmes
- Define and implement the hybrid Enterprise Capability (EC) and home country delivery model for bids
- Enhance AECOM’s market presence and reputation with infrastructure owners, operators, and contractors
- Collaborate with global teams to support growth across Europe and India through capability, knowledge, and resource sharing
- Act as AECOM’s senior representative in the delivery of major aviation programmes
- Own and lead strategic client relationships, ensuring high levels of satisfaction and repeat business
- Drive continuous improvement based on client feedback and performance outcomes
- Lead collaboration with contractors, partners, and supply chain to ensure high-performing delivery teams
- Accountable for successful delivery of Aviation Sector owned projects, typically >$5M in revenue, ensuring performance across schedule, cost, and quality, and project governance compliance
- Drive strong commercial performance, including sales bookings and revenue growth, gross/net revenue and margin, cashflow and DSO performance, optimisation of EC utilisation, and high-quality project data and reporting
- Deliver programmes profitably and sustainably, aligned with business objectives
- Work within Transportation to build capability and capacity aligned to long-term growth
- Lead collaboration across Business Lines, sectors, and geographies to unlock opportunities and strengthen delivery
- Contribute to the development of a high-performing, globally connected team
- Support the implementation of strategic workforce planning and resourcing models
- Champion and actively lead the SHE & Wellbeing agenda across all major projects
- Ensure strong performance against both leading and lagging safety and sustainability metrics
- Act as a visible safety leader, embedding best practice across delivery teams and partner organisations
Requirements
- Proven market leader with a strong track record of positioning, leading, and winning major opportunities
- Extensive experience delivering large-scale, multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects profitably
- Demonstrated success working with infrastructure owners, operators, contractors, and partners
- Strong commercial acumen with experience managing financial performance and project metrics
- Experience operating within a global organisation, collaborating across sectors and geographies
- Strong leadership capability, with a focus on developing teams and building long-term capability
- Passionate about safety leadership, wellbeing, sustainable delivery, quality and innovation
Skills
- Strategic growth
- Commercial acumen
- Client relationship management
- Project delivery
- Bid management
- Team leadership
- Safety leadership
- Sustainability
- Quality
- Innovation
Location
- UK - Birmingham - Colmore Plaza
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Programme Director
- Senior representative
Benefits
- Flexibility to do your best work with hybrid work options
- Wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs
- Access to industry-leading technology and thinking
- Transformational work with big impact
- Work flexibility
About the Company
- 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.
- We are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously.
- We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team.
- We value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
- We invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.