Project Director - Strategic Procurement

Company Description

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Job Description

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AECOM Advisory is seeking dynamic professionals to support the ongoing growth of our strategic procurement service. Through the provision of high value advice and leadership through the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, we enable our clients to successfully delivery their capital investment programmes, transformation projects and asset enhancement initiatives. We are looking to attract the most talented people in the industry, building a diverse team. Our public and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.

Building off AECOM's considerable expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs. We deliver projects across the infrastructure market with a current focus on aviation, defence, energy and water.

We are a new category of consulting firm; one that builds off true operational and technical expertise of our broader platform to bring industry depth and capability-driven insight to the clients we serve.

You will join as a leader in a fast-paced and supportive team of diverse consulting professionals. We pride ourselves on our strong culture of mentorship and collaborative problem-solving, our mission of addressing our client's most complex and impactful problems, paired with career pathways that nurture professional development and personal growth

Here's what you will do:

• Lead project delivery: Serve as the strategic procurement lead on major infrastructure projects, providing visionary advice on delivery models, contract strategies, and commercial frameworks aligned with client objectives.
• Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a key adviser on procurement strategy and execution, ensuring alignment with market conditions and client goals.
• Oversee Procurement Processes: Manage the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, including supplier engagement, tender development, evaluation, and negotiation, ensuring high-value, multi-disciplinary solutions are delivered.
• Drive Business Growth: Contribute to the growth and evolution of AECOM Advisory, identifying opportunities for expansion and leading work-winning activities, including proposal development.
• Champion Quality and Innovation: Ensure quality assurance and continuous improvement in project outcomes, representing AECOM as a sector leader in strategic procurement through participation in industry forums and thought leadership initiatives.

Qualifications

Here's what we're looking for

• Demonstrable experience leading complex programmes and projects at scale and pace within a consultancy or inhouse team.
• Significant post-qualification experience of procurement for complex construction and infrastructure projects with sector experience in infrastructure, specifically Energy, Defence, Transportation and Water desirable.
• Leadership experience in the provision of strategic advice to lead clients through the process of designing the optimum delivery model, contract strategy, commercial model and route to market for their project.
• Experience in leading competitive procurement processes including market engagement, supplier shortlisting, tender document development, tender management, evaluation and negotiation.
• Experience in developing, reviewing, or delivering high value procurement advice which aligns to client objectives and strategic priorities whilst satisfying value-for-money assessments.
• Experience of delivery throughout the procurement lifecycle, from strategy development, through sourcing actions and into the contract management and supplier engagement phases.
• Experience working with and interpreting public procurement regulations legislation and regulatory frameworks, with the ability to incorporate these into procurement design and strategic recommendations.
• Experience of supporting work winning activity including contributing to proposal documentation.

Applicants should be a able to demonstrate the following:

• Strong interpersonal skills, client service mindset and ability to act as a trusted advisor to clients.
• High emotional intelligence and self-awareness of your behaviours in different situations and among complex stakeholder environments.
• A team player who can work within a small, motivated team of diverse consulting professionals.
• A demonstrable track record of having delivered high-quality, strategic procurement and commercial advice to major infrastructure clients on their flagship projects.
• A leader in your profession, evidenced when you are responsible for delivery, but also when you are working as part of a wider collaborative team.
• An experienced facilitator of stakeholders. Where you encounter conflicting perspectives or priorities you can adapt to ensure you still gain insights, consensus or action.
• Engage in lifelong learning, adapting to emerging trends and technologies to stay at the forefront of industry changes.
• A mentor to your colleagues enhancing the wider team's knowledge of delivering major projects and programmes, operating in ambiguity and delivering a pace to build a resilient skill base and culture of continuous learning.
• A proficient internal and external networker identifying and pursuing opportunities for both the service offer and client growth of Strategic Procurement.
• Possess strong people skills and be an effective communicator, able to influence, challenge and establish yourself as a trusted advisor.

Additional Information

About AECOM

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. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. 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. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.