Performance Manager

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Job Description

Are you passionate about driving performance and supporting teams to deliver operational excellence? We're looking for a motivated and solutions-driven Performance Manager to join our Infrastructure & PMO Operating Unit within PPC in B+P.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work closely with senior leadership, gain high-level business visibility, and play a key role in shaping the success of one of our most dynamic operating units.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Performance & Governance

• Support the Operating Unit Leader in all aspects of business performance
• Ensure 100% project reviews and Tier 1 Healthy Starts are completed on time
• Drive data quality and reporting accuracy across the OU
• Oversee workflows, governance reviews, and timely approvals

Finance & Delivery

• Help meet cash and billing targets by supporting project financial health
• Minimise margin erosion and write-backs through smarter project support
• Work with teams on accurate backlog profiling and key project metrics (including DQI)
• Ensure reporting obligations are met across the board

Client & Commercial Risk

• Proactively identify and escalate project risks
• Support project governance including Go/No Go and Tender Board processes
• Manage Work@Risk and Revenue@Risk processes
• Work closely with Commercial Management and Finance on contract and risk reviews

People & Process

• Be the key point of contact on project performance for OULs and Ops Directors
• Champion upskilling across teams in tools like Workbench and Quality platforms
• Support strategic resourcing and utilisation across the Operating Unit

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• A proactive, confident communicator with a strong working knowledge of AECOM systems and governance
• Someone who thrives in cross-functional collaboration and can confidently work across multiple projects
• Financially astute, with a keen eye for performance metrics and risk management
• Detail-oriented but able to see the big picture - balancing quality with delivery

This role offers a unique opportunity to step into a highly visible position within the PPC leadership structure. You'll work with top stakeholders, have influence over strategic project outcomes, and help shape how we drive operational success in a complex, fast-moving part of the business

If you’re ready to take the next step and make a big impact—we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• A strong grasp of AECOM financial management principles that are associated with successful project delivery

Additional Information

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s 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 private-sector 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 you’re 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 well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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