The Associate Director – Transport Planning and Advisory is a leadership role at AECOM focused on delivering innovative and sustainable transport solutions. The position involves strategic leadership, client engagement, project delivery, business development, and team development within the transport planning and strategic consulting practice in Liverpool.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- Extensive experience in transport planning
- Strong leadership skills
- Commitment to excellence
- Self-motivated individual aspiring to take a lead role in client engagement
- Ability to manage dynamic teams delivering high quality projects
Nice to Have
- Experience in transportation studies covering all modes including active travel, road reallocation and public transport schemes
- Experience in options appraisal including modelling and data analytics to support public sector business case development and funding applications
- Experience in localised and strategic transport model development
- Experience in collaborative working across multi-disciplinary projects
Technical Stack
modelling, data analytics, transport appraisals, feasibility studies, market research, strategic transport modelling
Team & Environment
Part of an established team within a multi-disciplinary team working across Streets and Technology, Highways, Aviation, Ports, Rail and Environmental sectors.
Benefits & Compensation
- Career development opportunities
- Flexible hybrid working model to ensure work-life balance
- Technical practice networks
- AECOM University
- Volunteering days
- Core and personalised benefits designed to support future and well-being
- Benefits customized to fit lifestyle
Work Mode
Hybrid work model based in Liverpool with a flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle.
