Advisory Consultant – Economics

AECOM Advisory is seeking a dynamic Advisory Consultant - Economics to support our growing global Advisory business line. We are seeking talented management consultants to join AECOM Advisory who are mission-driven for the role of our clients in supporting economic, environmental and social vibrancy. We are recruiting for this role in the following metro areas: Boston, MA, New York, NY, Washington DC, Raleigh, NC, or Miami, FL.

Building off AECOM’s considerable expertise in infrastructure design and implementation, AECOM Advisory is a trusted adviser to senior level clients and executive teams on their most pressing enterprise and strategic needs.

Our team of 400 staff globally comprises business and policy analysts, economists, commercial strategists, technologists, as well as human capital and change management practitioners. We help our clients develop their strategy, improve their operational performance, and integrate digital systems to generate value for their stakeholders and impact for their communities. We serve the full value chain of clients active in infrastructure, the built environment, and community vibrancy, including: national governments, regulatory entities, city agencies, utilities, transit agencies, infrastructure operators, private corporations, developers and investors. The successful candidate can lead quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop and/or evaluate strategies that address policy, design, supply chain and social challenges.

We are a new category of consulting firm; one that builds off true operational and technical expertise of our broader platform to bring industry depth and capability-driven insight to the clients we serve.

As an Economics Consultant in AECOM Advisory’s US East Region, your day-to-day role will be to define, lead and manage multiple tasks within a workstream as part of a larger engagement.

The responsibilities include but not be limited to:

• Applying existing and hypothesizing new solution frameworks to deconstruct, dimensionalize, and analyze client problems.
• Leveraging AI tools to conduct baseline assessments and secondary research.
• Conducting stakeholder interviews, including with C-suite clients and senior management stakeholders.
• Conducting business modelling (market sizing, segmentation, penetration, adoption) and investment analysis by building custom discounted cash flow (DCF) Excel models to calculate revenue, cost-benefit analyses (CBA), EBITDA, NPV, IRR, CAGR for client’s policies, projects and programs.
• Leveraging analytical and data visualization tools (e.g., ArcGIS, Costar, IMPLAN, Python, Tableau) to derive patterns, trends and insights from client and third-party datasets to inform client recommendations.
• Outlining, supervising and providing quality control over analytical tasks assigned to junior team members.
• Creating highly-polished executive-ready decks as you work, to build buy-in and convey emerging data-driven insights.
• Synthesizing multiple inputs into coherent insights across a variety of formats; slide decks, written narrative, playbooks, dashboards and toolkits.

In addition, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to business development, through:

• Solutions architecture and framework development to meet our clients’ needs.
• Technical writing and long-form narrative development.
• Creating pitch decks and defining AECOM Advisory’s value proposition.
• Bringing commercial acumen around client needs, budgetary requirements, researching client contexts.
• Supporting logistical and administrative processes to ensure risk management and compliance.