Aviation Client & Programme Director
$5,000,000–$5,000,000 year
HybridCroydon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead the delivery of the Aviation Sector's three-year growth strategy across the UK & Ireland, identifying and converting priority market opportunities and securing major programmes typically exceeding $5M. Own the client engagement strategy for key aviation accounts, developing executive-level relationships that position AECOM as a trusted long-term partner while acting as the executive client sponsor for strategic accounts. Provide executive oversight of major aviation programmes, ensuring successful delivery that reinforces client confidence and supports future work winning. Drive strong business performance across sales bookings, revenue growth, profitability, and gross margins while championing a culture where safety, wellbeing, and sustainability are fundamental to every client engagement.
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 and securing repeat business
- Extensive experience leading the delivery of complex, multidisciplinary infrastructure programmes
- Strong commercial acumen
- Experience managing business performance, profitability and growth
- Experience operating within a global organisation
- Leveraging international capability to deliver client value
- Inspirational leadership
- Passion for building high-performing teams
- Developing future capability
- Visible advocate for safety
- Advocate for sustainability
- Advocate for innovation
- Advocate for client excellence
- Attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment
Desired Qualifications
- Experience operating within a global organisation, leveraging international capability to deliver client value
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