Senior Organizational Strategist

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Senior Organizational Strategist to join our growing Strategy practice to take leading roles in major infrastructure programs. This opportunity is based out of Mississauga with opportunities for hybrid work available.

Job Summary:

Were specifically looking for a highly motivated person that is ideally an organizational psychology and/or human resources specialist or possesses strong skills and experience in these disciplines. You also have a rare blend of realworld experience and theory a passion for challenging traditional wisdom the right mix of boardroom polish and grassroots hustle and is comfortable blurring the lines between the rigor of strategy and the creative.

You will join our multidisciplinary team of talented strategists 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.

Once You Are Here You Will:

Your role as a Senior Organizational Strategist will vary from project to project relationship to relationship and may include:

• Assessing organizational capabilities structures and processes and develop the future capabilities competencies and critical roles that enable an organizations 510 year strategy

• Designing and activate organizational interventions to encourage collaboration across siloed organizations

• Helping clients to shape and act on change strategies for complex organizational challenges to capitalize on valuecreating opportunities

• Generating new opportunities by thinking creatively about behavioral financial and operational impacts risks experiments data and other drivers

• Translating behavioral research into insights that can be easily communicated to your collaborators and clients to inspire possible solutions

• Crafting research plans comprised of interviews workshops analysis of analogous industries and organizations to understand an organizations working dynamics and surface opportunity areas

• Shape and act on change strategies that may start small and lead to longterm impact at scale

• Design tools methodologies and frameworks that address strategic and organizational issues and foster new ways of thinking and working

• Shape AECOMs perspective on organizational strategy we like to push the edges in all aspects of our work

Qualifications :

Minimum Requirements:

In order to be considered for this position candidates must possess at a very minimum:

• Bachelors Degree in a related field including but not limited to: Industrial/Organizational Psychology Psychology Business Administration plus 6 (six) years of related experience in organizational design change management human resources program management and developing and implementing new ways of thinking and working.

Demonstrated equivalency of experience and education may be considered.

Preferred Requirements:

A Tshaped individual that asks thought provoking questions are comfortable wading into ambiguous problems and can take ownership 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:

• Organizational psychology behavioral economics

• Change management

• Workforce planning operations and capability development

• Program Management

• Management consulting and / or corporate strategy

• Data analytics & modeling

• User research synthesis of qualitative data and generating insights

It would be a bonus if you have:

• 8 (eight) years of relevant experience

• Masters or Doctorate Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology Psychology or Business Administration

• Been a part of a major infrastructure program and preferably led activities associated with organization design governance and resource planning

• Membership to the Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (CSIOP)

• Rolled out digital transformation strategies

Additional Information :

Application Instructions:

The following materials are required for your application to be considered

• Resume
• Cover letter (yes we read them!) explaining why you are interested in AECOM and Strategy and how your skills and experience align to this opportunity
• Project Example

To get to know you and your experience better attach an example of work that youre proud to help us understand your process learnings & insights why you made particular decisions and most importantly what was interesting or unexpected! Be visual because the majority of communication with clients is visual and keep it to a max of 4 pages fewer slides will not be penalized

About AECOM

AECOM is the worlds 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 privatesector 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 youre 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 wellbeing programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. Were the worlds trusted global infrastructure firm and were in this together your growth and success are ours too.

Join us and youll get all the benefits of being a part of a global publicly traded firm access to industryleading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours.

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

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime