Strategist

Company Description 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.

**Job Description**:
AECOM is seeking a** Strategist** for our growing Strategy+ practice in Toronto. Strategy+ is AECOM’s design-led management consulting studio that operates at the intersection of Business Transformation, Organizational Dynamics and Place Strategy. We’re looking for someone that is comfortable blurring the lines between strategy and creative, is a strong communicator, comfortable tackling diverse projects across differing industries, is highly motivated, engagingly collaborative and possesses outstanding analytical and creative problem-solving skills.

You will join our multidisciplinary team of talented strategists, organizational designers, change managers, architects, data analysts, organizational psychologists, planners, and designers to support projects which encompass world class corporations, agencies, institutions, universities & colleges, and local and federal government.

**Some of Our Work**
- U.S. National Lab Digital Twin
- America Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 Grants Compliance Support Services
- Cyberworx
- Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) Integrated Human Resources Plan (IHRP)

**Once You Are Here You Will**
- Generate new opportunities by thinking creatively about financial and operational impacts, risks, experiments, data and other drivers
- Be passionate about trying new things rather than focusing on best practices
- Collaborate with other strategists to hack together new approaches that live at the intersection of multiple disciplines
- Explore how approaches commonly adopted by corporate strategy and design might inform value creation for our clients
- Inspire specialists, architects and engineers through business, strategy and design practices to think and act differently
- Engage with clients through user research, visualize qualitative and quantitative data, and facilitate workshops to drive new ways of thinking

**About You**

A T-shaped individual that asks thought provoking questions, are comfortable wading into ambiguous problems and can take ownership, are a critical thinker, and has specialized experience in one or more of the following areas and possesses a broader comfort and ability to work within many of these areas:

- Management consulting and / or corporate strategy
- Data analytics & modeling
- Communications strategy, branding and marketing
- Urban planning and space programming
- Change management, people operations, organizational design & development
- User research, synthesis of qualitative data and generating insights
- Design background in architecture, urban planning, and interiors

You’re comfortable and ready to hit the ground running as soon as you get here and are:

- Highly collaborative, communicative and a creative team player
- A creative storyteller
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, open, and creative environment
- Able to contribute to facilitation of workshops and presentations
- A Critical thinker with persuasive writing skills
- Familiar with research methodologies and processes
- Flexible and the able to work on more than one project in more than one team

Technically, you are skilled in one or more the following:

- Microsoft Office (specifically Excel and PowerPoint)
- Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Illustrator and InDesign)
- Revit or other space planning / design CAD systems
- Web based data analytics, visualization, and GIS
- Project management, planning, and scheduling
- Design-thinking, Lean Startup and design-led strategy
- Business model