Job Description Start here. Grow here. Our Planning and Strategic Consulting team, within our Transportation business line, has an exciting opportunity for a Planning Director to lead the delivery of transportation planning and consulting services across the North of England. There are four office bases within this region that generate revenues in excess of $8M. We love that our clients consistently rate us highly for our work in the transportation sector, including business case development for active travel, bus and rapid transit schemes, transport modelling and mobility insights, local transport plans, transport decarbonisation and monitoring and evaluation studies. We deliver high profile, award winning and impactful projects across the North. In this role, you will have a specific focus on operational delivery, project and resource management, workload pipeline, people management and staff engagement. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to our focus on people, clients, technical excellence and quality, whilst driving sustainable growth across regions and end markets. Your exceptional leadership skills will be instrumental in guiding innovation and delivering a better world. The successful candidate will join a dynamic team that is passionate about providing work to clients that we are technically proud of, market leading and responds to the changing industry we are facing with rapid technological advancements and the need to respond to climate change. You will be part of the UK and Ireland Planning and Strategic Consulting Senior Leadership Team and will work with other Regions and our overseas resource capability to maintain a steady workflow and to provide our clients with the best experience. Not all projects are based in UK and Ireland and therefore there will be opportunities to work with our colleagues globally. Here’s what you’ll do: Collaborate: Working with a blend of our teams including work winning and other end markets to expand and enhance client relationships ensuring we maintain and grow a healthy future pipeline. Deliver: The Planning and Strategic Consulting team is involved throughout the lifecycle of transportation and people and place projects from early policy and advisory work through development of strategic, outline and full business cases to assessment and management of developments, stakeholder engagement and the monitoring and evaluation of project outcomes for a range of public and private sector clients. In addition, we support other AECOM end markets where their projects require specialised transportation advisory services. Oversee: Ensure that we are resourced with teams that have the right qualities to provide the services and standards that our clients expect for current and future needs. Provide Expertise: Offer technical knowledge and expertise to the project and client teams on all aspects of multi-disciplinary projects. Ensure Quality: Working through the complexities of our Transportation projects, you will hold our clients’ hands and overcome problems in unison when they inevitably arise. Key Responsibilities: The Planning Director North will be accountable for safety, quality, ethics, people management and delivery of the operational performance of this $8M business; specifically, they will: Lead by example by visibly driving our Safety, Health & Environmental (SH&E) culture, ensuring effective implementation of SH&E policies and procedures throughout the region, and achievement of our SH&E core value metrics. Be Accountable for the Regions performance versus the Financial Year plan and outlook incl. Net Service Revenue, Gross Margin, Cost Utilisation, FTEs and employee turnover. Accountable for the robustness of forward pipeline revenues for the North. Ensure that the Region has in place the right resource management processes, including collaboration across regions and geographies to optimise project and business performance. Maintain a culture where AECOM is recognised as a great place to work by upholding and communicating AECOM’s values (incl. wider social values), championing equity, diversity and inclusion, promoting employee engagement, career development and succession pathways. Work alongside the Work Winning team to support client development and growth opportunities through existing contracts, winning new business and optimising return on client account management. Apply governance to all regional key pursuit Go/No Go Processes. Identify and attract new talent and lead strategic and senior recruitment within the Region. Drive change programs to increase efficiency, profitability, and operational quality within and across regions. Drive project delivery and commercial excellence, ensuring projects are completed on time, on budget, to the right quality and to the client’s satisfaction. Come grow with us. We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project. And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.