NZ Practice Leader - Cost Management

Company Description

Pushing the limits of what is possible.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Creating places that matter and communities that thrive.

Our global Buildings and Places business line brings together a versatile and collaborative team of cost management, project, and construction management, urban planning, building design and engineering professionals working to create liveable, sustainable, and equitable cities.

Together with our clients, we are working to evolve and elevate the built environment across sectors including, social infrastructure, transit, technology and logistics, and commercial and corporate real estate, whilst focusing on solutions that promote long term health and wellbeing for all.

We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Job Description

AECOM’s Cost Management team is looking for an influential, collaborative, and vibrant Practice Leader to support the continued growth of our nationwide practice. This role presents a career-defining opportunity for a driven cost management professional to play an instrumental part in delivering our services to clients across both the horizontal and vertical sectors.

What will a day in this role look like:

This role will see you providing inspirational leadership, coaching and mentoring to a well-established, national Cost Management team, building and strengthening our long-term client relationships and continuing to raise our profile and reputation within the sector, serving as an active and visible champion of the multi-disciplinary services we offer.

Using your strong client-focus and developed networks, you will grow and diversify our Cost Management business into new sectors including water and energy transition whilst continuing to deliver our core buildings and civils projects to a high standard, and lead our team to deliver timely, innovative, and high-quality project outputs.

Qualifications

What are we looking for from you?

The following qualifications and experience are highly desired, but if you don’t tick all the boxes you could still be a perfect fit for this role. Please apply, all applications will be considered.

• An innovative and influential leader with a strong market presence and a passion for building business, client engagement and delivery excellence

• 15 years demonstrated success in managing complex projects, meeting delivery requirements and leading project teams

• Demonstrated commercial acumen, and the ability to develop a strong client base

• Demonstrated technical leadership, employee relations, team building, engagement, innovation and motivation skills

• Strong business development skills and demonstrated success building client relationships.

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 $13.1 billion in fiscal year 2022. 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 culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – 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 and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. 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.

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

ReqID: J10096339

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ANZ

Career Area: Survey & Estimation

Work Location Model: Hybrid