Aviation Client & Programme Director
$5,000,000–$5,000,000 year
HybridBristol, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead the Aviation Sector's three-year growth strategy across the UK & Ireland, identifying and converting priority market opportunities while executing the end-to-end work winning process for major programmes exceeding $5M. Own executive client engagement strategies to build trusted relationships with airport operators and infrastructure owners, driving revenue growth, profitability, and pipeline conversion. Provide oversight of flagship aviation programmes to ensure successful delivery against schedule, cost, and quality targets, while championing safety, sustainability, and enterprise capability optimisation. Collaborate with global teams to unlock cross-border opportunities and develop future leaders within a high-performing, hybrid delivery model.
Required Qualifications
- Proven success leading the pursuit, capture and conversion of major infrastructure opportunities
- Strong track record of winning strategic programmes
- Established relationships within the aviation sector
- Credibility with airport operators, infrastructure owners, contractors and delivery partners
- Demonstrated experience developing client strategies
- Experience growing key accounts
- Experience securing repeat business
- Extensive experience leading the delivery of complex, multidisciplinary infrastructure programmes
- Strong commercial acumen
- Experience managing business performance
- Experience managing profitability
- Experience managing growth
- Experience operating within a global organisation
- Experience leveraging international capability to deliver client value
- Inspirational leadership
- Passion for building high-performing teams
- Passion for developing future capability
- Visible advocate for safety
- Visible advocate for sustainability
- Visible advocate for innovation
- Visible advocate for client excellence
- Ability to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment
Desired Qualifications
- Experience developing future leaders
- Experience strengthening capability in client management
- Experience strengthening capability in capture
- Experience strengthening capability in bid leadership
- Experience strengthening capability in programme delivery
- Support experience in strategic workforce planning
- Experience ensuring capability aligns with market demand
- Experience ensuring capability aligns with growth ambitions
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