B&P Digital Delivery Lead

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B&P Digital Delivery Lead – Europe & Ireland

AECOM is recruiting a B&P Digital Delivery Lead to join our Built & Places (B&P) business across Europe & Ireland. This role can be based in any of our UK or Ireland offices, including London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, or Dublin.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the digital delivery strategy for B&P across the EUR&I region—accelerating adoption of digital tools, embedding AI into project delivery, and driving productivity, quality, and consistency across our services.

As B&P Digital Delivery Lead, you will work closely with:

• B&P Leadership teams

• B&P Global Digital Leadership

• Engineering & Consulting (EC) counterparts

• TPG and AI Development teams

You will lead the regional coordination of digital initiatives, align teams around a common strategy, and ensure our projects deliver market-leading digital outcomes that support business growth and client value.

What You’ll Do

Digital Strategy & Leadership

• Shape and coordinate the B&P EUR&I Digital Delivery Strategy, aligned to global and regional business goals.

• Act as the regional point of contact for B&P digital initiatives.

• Regularly update B&P Leadership, TPG, and wider stakeholders on progress, outcomes, and challenges.

Collaboration & Integration

• Engage with Discipline and Country Digital Leads, AI Development teams, EC counterparts, and TPG business units to align priorities and delivery.

• Lead digital coordination with EC to ensure consistency and standardisation across teams.

Digital Capability & Adoption

• Evaluate and enhance regional digital capabilities to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency.

• Drive adoption of approved software, AI solutions, tools, and digital processes across project delivery.

• Coordinate with Operations Support on software approvals and usage.

• Lead implementation of:

• Digital Healthy Starts

• Project setup standards

• Digital delivery support frameworks

AI & Innovation

• Coordinate with AI Development teams to identify, pilot, and embed effective AI solutions for B&P.

• Encourage innovation and best practice sharing across disciplines and geographies.

Community & Team Leadership

• Lead a network of Discipline and Country Digital Leads to build a strong regional digital community.

• Establish discipline-specific digital strategies aligned with the overall B&P Digital Strategy.

• Lead communications, engagement, and awareness of digital initiatives across B&P teams.

• Support training and capability development to ensure teams meet digital delivery requirements.

Bids & Client Value

• Support key bids and proposals, providing compelling digital delivery content that demonstrates value, innovation, and differentiation.

• Objectives

• Embed high-quality, consistent digital delivery and AI across B&P projects.

• Ensure digital initiatives meet defined standards, objectives, and KPIs.

• Build and grow a coordinated EUR&I discipline delivery network.

• Identify and scale discipline-specific digital innovation opportunities.

• Improve awareness, engagement, and adoption of digital tools and processes across the region.

• Key Outputs & KPIs

• Increased adoption of approved digital software, AI, processes, and tools.

• A strong, active digital community driving regional digital maturity.

• Clear, effective communication and visibility of digital initiatives.

• Positive feedback from teams on digital delivery support and outcomes.

• High-quality digital input into key ECP / Tier 2 bids.

What we’re looking for

We’re seeking a digital leader with proven experience operating in the digital delivery space within the built environment or consultancy sector. You’ll bring a strong mix of strategic thinking, technical understanding, and leadership capability—able to turn vision into action and drive meaningful change at scale.

Skills, Experience & Attributes

• Proven experience in a digital leadership or digital transformation role within the built environment, engineering, or consultancy sector.

• Strong strategic mindset, with the ability to translate digital vision into practical, deliverable outcomes.

• Deep understanding of digital tools, platforms, and innovation in a construction or professional services context.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at senior leadership level.

• A proactive self-starter, comfortable working as part of both regional and global teams.

• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to work across multiple time zones.

• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, including presenting ideas and influencing decision-makers.

• Demonstrated ability to champion, lead, and embed new ideas, programmes, and solutions.

• Strong organisational and time-management skills, able to prioritise effectively and deliver cost-effective solutions aligned with budgets.

• A visible passion, energy, and drive, with resilience and confidence to lead change—even in the face of resistance.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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 $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.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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