VP, Digital Solutions Director

We will give you 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. We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business. We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career. When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let's get started. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

AECOM is seeking a VP, Digital Solutions Director to lead, track, and implement global strategic growth initiatives within the West region. While the leader will focus on the Digital AECOM growth initiative they will be expected to integrate and advance AECOM's other key growth initiatives including Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

This leader will be a member of the Regional Leadership team and be able to leverage their relationships to change the way we work. This position can be performed remotely, with occasionally going into the office and traveling as needed. We are seeking candidates in Chicago, IL/Denver, CO/and Dallas, TX.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world.

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.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team - 50,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

About AECOM

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.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We're one global team - 50,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

This role will sponsor and oversee digital leaders within the region who are focused on adoption of digital capabilities in 3 key areas:

-Maturing the digital delivery of the core design and engineering services, in each of the business lines, through the adoption of global platforms and processes.

-Growing digital consulting services, offered to key clients to support them on their own digital transformation journey.

-Growing our hosted services business within the region to differentiate our offerings and new deliver value from our global intellectual property.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Provides technical and management leadership for a discipline or area of responsibility.
• Makes decisions and recommendations that are recognized as authoritative.
• Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with senior-level managers within the company and with key officials of other organizations and companies, and is skilled in persuasion and negotiation of critical issues.
• At this level, individuals will have demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature technical judgment in anticipating and solving both routine and unusual structure/design problems, determining program objectives and requirements, organizing programs and projects, and developing standards and guides for diverse activities.
• Supervision received is essentially administrative with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
• Tailor global digital strategies and priorities to meet the needs and priorities of the West region
• Review and provide feedback to global team on initiative implement ability, challenges, and areas for improvement
• Understand, plan for, tailor, and implement global strategic growth initiatives in the West, including ESG and IIJA
• Coordinate and track digital strategy, adoption, pursuits, and project delivery with US West digital team (including Business Line Digital Leads, hosted services sales leads, adoption leads)
• Working with Digital Consulting lead, identify and track key US West digital consulting team members, pipeline, and revenue
• Coordinate and delegate regional software rationalization approvals
• Align digital strategies with regional growth strategies and focus on key clients
• Ensure the regional leadership team clearly identify and track the business outcomes from broad adoption of digital solutions
• Support business line leaders by tracking adoption of each global digital solution with business line digital leaders
• Support teams to identify and remove barriers to adoption
• Enable collaboration between core business teams and digital teams
• Promote the digital consulting service offerings internally and externally
• Promote the hosted services offerings internally and externally
• Recognize outstanding contributions and outcomes
• Showcase proof points and case studies
• Celebrate success

Attributes/skills:

• Self-starter with the ability to work as a positive, energized and adaptable team member
• Flexible with work times to align with colleagues in different time zones
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and influence senior leaders
• Extremely strong relationship building skills
• Demonstrated ability to champion and drive ideas/programs/solutions
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, able to work under pressure and prioritize effectively
• Able to demonstrate passion, energy and drive, especially in the face of resistance

Minimum Requirements :

• BA/BS plus at least 12 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education including at least 4 years of leadership experience
• Demonstrated passion for digital adoption
• Key client relationships and business development capabilities
• Strategy implementation and/or change management experience

Preferred Qualifications :

• Demonstrated inspirational leadership
• Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Information Management, or related field
• MBA or other business degree (desirable)
• Change Management or Strategy Management qualifications (desirable)
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Sponsorship opportunities for US Employment Authorization, now or in the future, are not available for this position
• Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work. 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.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there's never been a better time to be at AECOM! 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.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

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.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.