Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36, 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 worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description : Overall leadership of Discipline team (Water - US and Canada) of professional staff located across multiple GECs ensuring growth of capabilities and capacity to meet business demands, and delivery of high-quality project outcomes. Reports directly to GEC Director (Resilience). Open to all GEC locations.

Role accountabilities :

• Provide professional leadership in their discipline at a senior management level, establishing and consolidating relationships with senior staff in BA offices, taking ownership for the delivery of the GECs technical capability, supporting the delivery of tasks or specialized components of projects
• Plan and drive the development of Arcadis capability and capacity in the discipline to meet project demands, working with Talent Acquisition and Learning
• Development to ensure business needs can be met in advance.
• Drive a culture of project delivery excellence within the discipline, ensuring that adequate talent is available and assigned to lead on project delivery from a technical and task management perspective.
• Ensure the delivery of projects / tasks within the team is in accordance with Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets
• Engage with the senior leadership in the BAs and champion the involvement and inclusion of GEC capability in their delivery model using SOPs to standardize the delivery approach.
• Drive the implementation of the GEC strategy within the discipline, including managing changes associated with the operating model

Communicate change and manage transformation within the team, aligned to the strategic direction of the company and GECs.

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Qualifications & Experience :

The candidate should have a bachelor or master's degree and at least 15+ years of experience leading and growing a significant business function within a multinational engineering or professional services firm. The candidate will be able to inspire multi-disciplinary teams around a common purpose and demonstrate significant leadership capability.

The right candidate possesses a high level of intellectual, professional, and interpersonal agility and flexibility. Further the candidate will bring excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate at all levels of the organization in particular senior levels. A pragmatic attitude is vital. Strong commercial acumen is required to support GEC involvement at pursuit phase, working in collaboration with BA stakeholders and senior GEC staff.

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