Liverpool, EXCHANGE STATION TIT, United Kingdom Hybrid Employment

AECOM is hiring an Associate Director – Transport Planning and Advisory

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of strategic initiatives to grow the transport planning and consulting practice. Align team objectives with AECOM’s broader business goals, ensuring integration across disciplines. Proven work winning, project management and team management abilities with excellent Client relations.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients, including public sector agencies, private developers, and infrastructure operators. Provide strategic advice to clients, ensuring their goals are met with innovative and sustainable solutions. Represent AECOM at client meetings, industry events, and conferences, enhancing the company’s reputation as a leader in transport planning.
  • Oversee the delivery of complex transport planning projects, ensuring they meet quality, budget, and timeline requirements. Provide technical oversight and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards. Manage project risks, develop mitigation strategies, and ensure successful outcomes.
  • Identify and pursue new business opportunities in the transport planning and wider sectors. Lead the preparation of bids and proposals, ensuring they align with client needs and AECOM’s strategic priorities. Collaborate with other business lines to secure and deliver multidisciplinary projects.
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of transport planners and consultants. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team. Promote diversity and inclusion, ensuring a supportive and equitable workplace.

Requirements

  • extensive experience in transport planning
  • strong leadership skills
  • a commitment to excellence

Benefits

  • career development opportunities
  • flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle
  • technical practice networks
  • AECOM University
  • volunteering days

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Structure: The Liverpool office has an established track record of successfully delivering Transport projects and works closely with other disciplines from Streets and Technology, Highways, Aviation, Ports, Rail and Environmental sectors.

Additional Information

  • The team workload ranges from strategy development, transport appraisals, business cases, feasibility studies, market research and modelling and data analytics, working with public and private sector clients.
Required Skills
transport planning transport planning
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AECOM
AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering solutions in water, environment, energy, transportation, and buildings. The company partners with public- and private-sector clients to solve complex challenges and build legacies through advisory, planning, design, engineering, and construction management. A Fortune 500 firm with $16.1 billion revenue in fiscal year 2025.
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Department Transportation
Category other
Posted 2 months ago