Associate Director – Technical Advisory

At Arcadis, we never lose sight of what is most important – look beyond our projects and programmes and you will see it is about human stories. From remaking public spaces that bring people together, to making cities easier to navigate, we are focused on making an impact where it matters most – and improving quality of life.

It is a big challenge and therefore we need people committed to bringing their best, who deliver on their promises. People who value different perspectives, build sustainable relationships, and dare to shape the future. People who seize the experiences available to transform their world and the world around them.

It is a shared goal amongst 27,000 Arcadians and one that we can only achieve by working together and applying our skills and expertise across design, consultancy, engineering, project, and management services. It is how we will find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges and how we will deliver exceptional results, today and tomorrow.

Job Description

Based in the UK, we have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director to join our Water Engineering business within the Technical Advisory group.

Reporting to the Community of Practice Leader, you will be a senior member of the Water Engineering business. You will manage and direct the team, whilst providing both leadership and technical guidance. You will play a vital role in growing the business and creating opportunity. Additional responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Applying your skills, knowledge, and insight to oversee the delivery of projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
• Ensuring the profitable operation of the accounts.
• Identifying technical advisory opportunities for pursuit and contributing to the creation of marketing and capability material.
• Promoting effective and efficient bid management in liaison with the sector Sales Leader.
• Promoting and marketing all facets of the company's services during client interfaces and generally.
• Encouraging innovative and entrepreneurial thinking among team members.
• Guide the development of the team with succession planning, CPD, mentoring and building an effective graduate development structure through relevant professional development programmes.
• Contribute to thought leadership in the water engineering business in your particular area of technical expertise
• Engaging with and utilising fully the Global Excellence Centres (GECs) as key members and resources of your business teams, and as a seamless part of our service offering

Requirements

• Experience of working at a senior level ideally, but not exclusively, within the regulated water sector – candidates with a wider regulated industry background will also be considered
• Previous experience of delivering asset management led projects or working within an asset operations environment would be beneficial
• A good level of design knowledge would be beneficial
• Well–developed commercial skills with a demonstrated ability in sales, bidding, and business development and the ability to convert conceptual ideas into opportunities
• Ability and enthusiasm to build teams and accounts through a highly collaborative approach
• Demonstrated ability to recruit and lead a team with good influencing, motivating and delegation skills
• Confident communicator and strong relationship building skills, both internally and externally
• A willingness to work in client co–located offices and teams
• The confidence and flexibility to thrive in the delivery of projects in structured and unstructured work environments
• An engineering, mathematics, or science–based educational background
• Chartered Engineer status or membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g. MICE, MIMechE, MCIWEM, MAPM, MIAM, MIChemE)

Why Arcadis?

At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you because each Arcadian has their own motivations and career goals.

As a 'people ???rst' business, we will take the time to listen and understand what you want from your time here and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions. Wherever you join us, you can look forward to a competitive reward package that includes an attractive starting salary, opportunities for career development and being part of a sociable community. We have a performance–related bonus scheme and an employee recognition scheme. Other bene???ts include membership fees to join your relevant professional body, employer contribution pension scheme, ???exible working and a flexible holiday scheme.

We believe that by working together, diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity, and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success