AECOM is hiring: Sports Managing Principal Americas in Los Angeles

Job Description

AECOM Buildings + Places is looking for a dynamic leader to usher our AECOM Sports Practice- Americas into the next chapter of industry leading excellence. Position to be based in Los Angeles, Kansas City, or New York, NY. The right person will bring a combination of entrepreneurialism, holistic leadership, and passion for leveraging interdisciplinary capabilities towards making a better world through the communities and cultures supported by integrated sports and entertainment projects.

Our Sports studio is an established leader in the market with over three decades of success. This large practice focuses its work on everything from performance and development facilities to primary competition venues, ranging anywhere from small collegiate clients to the largest of professional leagues and franchises. We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.

Our Buildings + Places Business Line embodies the spirit of a nimble, fully integrated design firm within a fully global infrastructure organization. Our culture is dynamic, offering autonomy and the feel of a smaller, collaborative studio backed by the resources of a large interdisciplinary firm. Services include architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism, and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy + economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management. This diverse team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create.

Job Summary/Responsibilities

• Responsible for the growth, profitability, and strategy for AECOM Buildings + Places, Americas Sports Practice.
• Drives execution of tactical business plans in collaboration with regional business line leader.
• Works with the regional business line leader, global market sector leaders and account management leads to grow a profitable business by developing and implementing location specific growth plans.
• Represents AECOM as a leader in the Sports architecture industry.
• Provides industry leadership across the sports market.
• Manages and leads client relationships.
• Provides guidance and coaching to business development, account management and other staff.
• Is a member of the region management team, focused on optimizing the overall performance of the region.

Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design Architecture or related field plus twelve (12) years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including four (4) years in leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Design Architecture
• Proven record of developing new Buildings and Design for clients in the collegiate and professional sports and recreation market.
• Extensive experience in the collegiate athletics market.
• Ability to develop new business in the market place.
• Ability to recruit and attract top industry talent.
• Core competencies in professional staff development and retention are critical.
• Ability to perform individually in a competitive environment.
• Superior ability to satisfy clients and manage company’s association with them.
• Member of Buildings and Design Professional or Technical Society.

Additional Information

• Sponsorship is not available for this opportunity.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

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.

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.

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.

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

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