Senior Medical Planner (Associate Director Level)

Company Description

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Job Description

As our portfolio of healthcare projects continues to expand across the UK, Ireland (ROI and NI), and globally, AECOM is growing its UK+I Healthcare Architecture team. We are seeking an exceptional individual to join us at Associate Director level as a Senior Medical Planner, to help shape the future of healthcare design.

This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in leading and strengthening our award-winning specialist Healthcare Architecture team, part of our UK+I Architecture + Design Studio – proudly ranked 10th largest architectural practice in the UK (AJ100 Survey 2025).

At AECOM, you’ll be part of a truly global, multidisciplinary practice, working alongside engineers, planners, project managers, and sustainability experts. You’ll lead the medical design of major hospitals and healthcare facilities across a variety of typologies, acting as a trusted advisor to clients, clinicians, and stakeholders. You will drive success through thought leadership, collaboration, and design excellence.

We’re looking for a candidate with extensive healthcare design experience, a proven track record in the UK and Ireland, and international exposure to large-scale healthcare projects. Above all, you will combine rigorous medical planning expertise with a strong architectural sensibility – delivering projects that are not only functionally efficient, but also uplifting for patients, staff, and communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead medical planning across all project stages, including master planning, blocking and stacking, departmental layouts, and detailed 1:50 room loadings.
• Champion thought leadership in healthcare design, contributing to research, publications, and innovation across the practice.
• Engage with stakeholders – leading workshops, design reviews, and client presentations to ensure clinical and operational requirements are embedded into design solutions.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level planners, building capacity and promoting best practice within the team.
• Collaborate across disciplines to deliver integrated solutions that align medical planning with architectural design quality, sustainability, and operational performance.
• Promote design excellence, ensuring that healthcare projects at AECOM move beyond functional efficiency to create humane, healing environments.

Qualifications

About You

• Extensive experience in healthcare design, with at least 5 years in a senior medical planning role.
• Demonstrable leadership in planning hospitals and complex healthcare facilities within the UK and Ireland.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating integration of functional planning and architectural design.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• RIBA Chartered Architect (or equivalent professional registration).

If would be great if you had

• Experience of international healthcare projects and delivery of large-scale hospital developments.
• Evidence of thought leadership through publications, presentations, or active research.
• Postgraduate degree or specialisation in medical planning (or equivalent demonstrable expertise).
• Familiarity with global healthcare standards and ability to adapt UK best practice to international contexts.

Personal Attributes

• Strategic thinker with the ability to influence at project, client, and industry levels.
• Collaborative leader who inspires trust and builds consensus.
• Strong design sensibility with a commitment to delivering healthcare environments that improve human experience.
• Passionate about healthcare and motivated by AECOM’s mission to deliver a better world.

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 ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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