Vice President, Energy Utilities, AECOM Advisory

Vice President, Energy Utilities, AECOM Advisory

• Full-time
• Business Group: DCS
• Business Line: Geography OH
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Primary Location: CA - Mississauga, ON - 5090 Explorer

Role:

As a Vice President in AECOM Advisory’s Canada Region, your day-to-day role will include driving business development, overseeing engagement delivery and leading practice development with Energy Utility clients. This is a seller-doer role, and these tasks will include, but not be limited to:

Driving industry conversations and engaging professional networks to identify and originate business development opportunities.

Leveraging industry expertise and commercial acumen to proactively target, define and shape business development campaigns.

Oversee all aspects of business development, for both engagements and broader campaigns, including: client outreach, proposal development, solutions architecture, commercial and pricing strategy, internal risk review, and compliance procedures.

Oversee (lead, supervise, and provide quality control over) multiple parallel delivery teams, across various delivery models, tempos and engagement scopes.

Lead in engaging with other teams, business units and lines of service to architect and deliver multi-dimensional engagements.

Drive practice development with conducting performance appraisals, FP&A, operational performance improvement, thought leadership and IP generation.

Proactively coach and mentor staff.

Required competencies include:

Exceptional interpersonal skills, client-service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to executive-level clients.

Create a culture of a high-tempo, high-context client-facing environment, with the ability to lead with poise, maturity and delivering under pressure.

Able to be self-directed, anticipatory and a collegial team-player who can work across a devolved-leadership and highly-matrixed consulting organization.

Exceptional verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C-suite and senior management audiences.

Exceptional commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and expert understanding of client industries and their context.

Within the Energy Utilities industry, possess domain expertise across multiple of the following areas:

Corporate or enterprise strategy, market analysis and target operating model design.

Organizational assessment, business transformation and performance improvement.

Corporate finance, valuations, M&A, divestitures, divestments and privatizations.

Digital-led business transformation, including technology advisory, cybersecurity, AI and digital solutions.

Transactions advisory, including project finance, P3 advisory, and asset‑and‑portfolio‑level due diligence.

Capital programs advisory, including investment appraisal, capital improvement planning, grid modernization programs, and asset management.

Required:

Proven track record in a seller-doer leadership role in a management consulting firm.

At least 15 years of management consulting and/or related industry experience.

Preferred:

MBA, or other Master’s degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields.

Sponsorship for Canadian employment authorization is not available for this position.

To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well‑being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in your potential and are here to help you achieve it. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Artificial intelligence will be used to support the screening, assessment, and selection of applicants for this role. Final hiring decisions are made by the hiring team.