Project Director - Controls Analytics
AECOM · Manchester, England ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 18 Oct 2026.
Overview
As Project Director, you lead high-impact controls analytics across complex infrastructure programmes, guiding multi-disciplinary teams and shaping client engagements. You act as a trusted advisor to senior sponsors, delivering strategic direction and executive insights from data. You drive bids and growth while developing team capability, blending delivery oversight with advisory influence. This role offers the chance to scale the Controls Analytics proposition across major accounts, contributing to governance, performance and outcomes.
Pay / Benefits
- hybrid work options
- compensation and well-being programs
- global firm with scalable technology and thinking
- career and capability development
- inclusive and respectful workplace
- access to large-scale, impactful projects
Responsibilities
- Strategic client leadership and advising senior stakeholders on controls analytics, PMO performance, and data-driven decisions
- Overseeing delivery across projects, programmes and portfolios, defining operating models, reporting frameworks and governance
- Shaping and implementing integrated analytics approaches across cost, schedule, risk, change and performance; developing executive dashboards and KPI frameworks
- Leading work winning, bids and client pursuits, articulating compelling Controls Analytics propositions and identifying growth opportunities
- Mentoring and developing multidisciplinary teams; contributing to tools, methods, and capability growth
- Integrating risk, contingency and scenario analytics into controls frameworks and guiding predictive insights
Key requirements
- Degree in Engineering, Project Management, Finance, Data/Analytics or related discipline
- Professional certifications desirable (APM, PMI, MSP, RICS, AACE or similar)
- Typically 15+ years’ experience across project/programme controls, PMO leadership, and/or consultancy
- Leadership
- Client engagement and influencing senior stakeholders
- Strategic advisory and clear, executive communication
- Controls analytics solutions, dashboards and performance frameworks
- Data integration, modelling and insight generation guidance
- Power BI
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