Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
- Reports to: Director of Sustainability, Remediation, Data Management, and Advisory in the GEC
- Direct Reports: Supervises a team of multidisciplinary staff comprising peers and subordinates.
- Collaboration: Works closely with the SER BU Director and SER Growth Director in the UK.
- Leadership: Provides techno-managerial guidance to the multidisciplinary UK SER team based in GEC.
- Operational: Assists GEC and UK leadership in achieving business targets, project management, quality control, and team development.
- Billability & Planning: Responsible for billability and workload management in GEC, liaising with UK leadership.
- Opportunity Identification: Identifies and pursues growth opportunities in new technical areas and teams within the UK.
- Relationship Building: Establishes and strengthens relationships with senior staff in UK offices.
- Ownership and Delivery: Takes ownership of project delivery and technological capabilities of GEC.
- Business Development: Supports bid proposals and new business pursuits.
- Innovation Encouragement: Fosters creativity and independent thinking within the team, particularly concerning digital technologies, working with Global Environment Services Director
- Mentorship: Guides team leads and champions for high-quality standards and continuous improvement in safe design practices.
- Role Model: Leads the team by setting direction and serving as an example.
- Task Management: Manages task delivery in line with Arcadis Management Systems to achieve time, quality, budget, and safety goals.
- Best Practice Implementation: Ensures the adoption and sharing of delivery best practices with relevant teams and implementation of procedures and work plans
- Cultural Promotion: Promotes and upholds both regional and global business culture.
Role accountabilities:
Leading: You are a leader in the business, you play a major role in the growth of the GEC in all respects - focus and performance, people and culture, innovation and growth. You would typically be leading a collection of teams supporting multiple regions, or multiple service lines to one region (this might be 40-100 colleagues). You must be highly recognized in the regions and actively influence the growth of the business.
Performance Expectations / We always bring our best and deliver on our promises
- You operate partly outside the project environment to support professional leadership in your discipline.
- You are recognized as a managerial leader within the business unit and discipline within which you operate.
- You are expected to contribute to projects and be partially billable at least 30 to 40%
- You continuously improve safety in our projects, leveraging new technology to minimize risk.
- You manage and build strong working relationships with stakeholders and regional office colleagues to ensure satisfaction, and develop and create new business opportunities.
- You have a broad understanding of the business benefits derived from Global Design and Arcadis’ financial metrics prompting you to improve services and drive innovation to increase team contribution needed for the successful operation of the business.
- You take ultimate responsibility for the financial and quality performance of projects at a discipline level, creating a culture of ownership and accountability.
- You are accountable for billable hours and billability in your discipline.
- You create clear roles and responsibilities, and make your team take ownership of achieving 100% quality (processes / training / checklists.)
- You transparently select project teams which ensure both quality delivery and professional development.
- You play a role in assessing the performance and health of the business line, identifying gaps / issues in performance and behavior and associated improvement initiatives.
- You coordinate the wider workload with the region; and proactively identify future recruitment needs.
- You provide unbiased and fair input for salary decisions when requested by your line manager.
People & Interactions / We value each other, and We work as one team
- You lead the promotion of the Arcadis HS&W culture of the business within your discipline.
- You lead teams and provide guidance to the team members to meet the changing technical needs toward innovation and growth. You demonstrate appropriate professional standards, recognizing obligations to society, the profession and the environment and exercise responsibilities in an ethical manner.
- You develop, coach, and motivate team members with different forms of training to enhance skills, knowledge and capabilities within the areas of responsibility
- You engage with GBA to create the right visibility for the team and explore appropriate opportunities to utilizing their skills.
- You build relationships with senior colleagues in other GBAs to identify and realize business opportunities and ensure that Arcadis’ commercial objectives are met or exceeded.
- You have a broad understanding of the business and financial metrics prompting you to drive innovation to increase team contribution needed for the successful operation of the business
Arcadis Strategy / We dare to shape our future
- You ensure training plans consider not only today’s requirements, but those of the future.
- You have a deep understanding of future trends and technologies, and structure your team accordingly.
- You drive colleagues’ engagement with the Arcadis mission, values and strategy; and collaboratively create action plans to implement these in your discipline.
- You play a major role in forming the strategy for your business line.
- You motivate your team to explore new digital technologies and create opportunities to implement these.
- You ensure that knowledge of standardization and automation is maintained in your team
Qualifications & Experience:
- BE Tech/MTech in Environmental/Mech/Civil Engineering or equivalent
- PhD preferred
- Ideally 15+ years of professional experience
- Strong technical background and experience in Site Evaluation and Restoration, Contaminated Land, and Remediation.
- Experience in managing staff and stakeholders across a wide range of disciplines.
- Confident in building strong and lasting relationships with senior stakeholders in the GEC, the UK, and the global level
- Awareness of global digital and technology trends related to the environmental sector
- A strong, self-motivated, and assertive person capable of working under pressure.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels
- Experience with PFAS will also be great
- Flexible to adopt changes and challenges as per business requirements.
Why Arcadis?
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
