Strategic Advisory Graduate Consultant - January & September 2025 Starts

We're looking for outstanding graduates to join our Advisory Services team. In our Advisory Services team, we work closely with decision-makers across the private and public sectors to understand the complex challenges they face. Building trusted relationships is essential to our approach, ensuring we can collaborate effectively to provide bespoke solutions that help overcome challenges and achieve objectives. As a graduate, you'll have the chance to rotate through different specialist teams, gaining hands-on experience in a variety of areas. Working within a multidisciplinary environment will broaden your knowledge and network, giving you a clear sense of where you might want to focus your consultancy career in the future. Our Advisory Services unit includes:

• Strategy+ management consulting team who advise clients on business strategy, understanding existing and target operating models and enable clients to achieve their target state through structured transformation and change management.
• Asset Advisory team who provides expert guidance to clients on optimising their real estate investment strategies, improving portfolio performance and managing asset risks effectively.
• Industrial Advisory team who specialise in technical process optimisation to improve clients' manufacturing and production processes, lowering costs, boosting efficiency, increasing quality and generating value.
• Strategic Procurement team who help major infrastructure client organisations develop the optimal procurement, contract and commercial strategies to deliver their major construction projects and programmes.
• Transaction Advisory team who provides technical due diligence services to lenders and investors to assure their investment in infrastructure and real estate projects.
In return we will offer
• A two-year structured development programme which includes a combination of training and coaching to support and guide you through your early career, together with a clear pathway from Graduate to Director.
• Exposure to high-profile clients across a variety of built environment sectors with the opportunity to work on some of the worlds biggest infrastructure projects that will contribute to achieving a greener world.
• The opportunity to support business development across a spectrum of scales from creating your own opportunities to collaborating on critical pursuits.
• Mentorship from industry experts.
• A Global network of colleagues to engage with and learn from
  
  You should hold / be predicted a minimum 2:1 Bachelors or Masters degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
Alongside your degree, we are looking for you to be able to demonstrate:
• Critical Thinking - the ability to thoughtfully question, acknowledge information, recognise ambiguity, and challenge assumptions.
• Information Analysis - gathering diverse information sources and applying an analytical approach to interpret, evaluate, reason, and reflect to make informed judgements and extract insights.
• Creativity - contributing to the design and implementation of strategic initiatives in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.
• Initiative - demonstrating a proactive mindset with a strong interest in problem-solving to enhance business strategy and operations.
• Business Acumen - a solid grasp of fundamental business concepts such as finance, marketing, and operations.
• Communication Skills - producing high-quality outputs that resonate with clients, using both written and verbal communication, including storytelling techniques.
  
  Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us., 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 $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. 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.