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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Consultant, Advisory - **Company:** AECOM - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $100,000 - $150,000 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Systems Engineering, ArcGIS (Software), Data Visualization, R (Programming Language), Python (Programming Language), Power BI, Stata, Tableau (Software), Modeling and Simulation, Programming Languages - **Published:** October 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.chicagocareersite.com/job.asp?id=3438476631&tx=KP6565FFJ&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54 ## About the Role * Curiosity about our clients, their business, and the industries they operate in. * Strong interpersonal skills, client-service mindset and ability to act as a trusted adviser to clients. * Work in a high-tempo, high-context client-facing environment, with the ability to maintain poise, maturity and work well under pressure. * Able to be self-directed, anticipatory and responsive to iterative feedback. * Outstanding attention to detail. * Exceptional numerical reasoning and quantitative skills. * Sharp analytical, logical reasoning and structured problem-solving skills, employing abstraction techniques to solve ambiguous client problems, and ingest and parse out large volumes of client information. * Strong commercial acumen and willingness to have an informed point-of-view, grounded in an interest in enterprise challenges (people, process, technology) and developing understanding of client industries and their context. * Solid verbal communication and narrative development skills, with the ability to summarize and convey key insights to C-suite and senior management audiences. * Collegial team-player who can work within a small, motivated team of diverse consulting professionals. Desired competencies include: * Functional experience in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: * Proficiency with data science analytical techniques and familiarity using multiple public datasets including BLS, BEA, NAICS data, ACS and other geographically-defined socioeconomic datasets. * Proficiency with geospatial datasets and software e.g., ArcGIS. * Proficiency with input-output or general equilibrium economic modelling tools such as Esmi, IMPLAN or REMI. * Proficiency with Stata, R, Python and other programming languages. * Proficiency with data visualization techniques, such as with PowerBI or Tableau. * Domain expertise in at least one of the following areas desired, but not required: * Corporate or enterprise/organizational assessment. * Project finance and/or infrastructure investment appraisal. * Sustainability, climate change, net zero and ESG strategies and frameworks incl. non-financial valuation methodologies. * Economic development, industrial policy and market transformation. Qualifications Required: * A Bachelor's degree (preferably in a STEM discipline) and a minimum of 3 years of management consulting or related experience (e.g., technical consulting, analyst roles in business, public policy, economics research, private equity, investment banking or corporate strategy experience). Preferred: * MBA, or other Master's degree in Operational Research, Management, Management Science, Finance, Economics, Systems Engineering and/or related fields ## Description As a Senior Consultant in AECOM Advisory, your day-to-day role will be to define, lead and manage multiple tasks within a workstream as part of a larger engagement. These tasks will 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.