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:
We have a great opportunity for a strategic minded Project Director, with experience in account leadership and management, to lead the delivery of Residential and Commercial Development projects across South West England and South Wales; driving and enhancing our commercial, service, performance and client experience. The role requires experience leading multi-million-pound projects and managing diverse multi-disciplinary teams.
Working within our Places business area, the role requires an individual that shares our passion for improving the quality of life; an individual that prides themself for the part they play in transforming the world around them and understand the importance of teamwork.
Role accountabilities:
- Build trusted relationships with senior members of client organisations to establish new and repeat business. In due course there will be an opportunity to manage a portfolio of projects alongside taking line management and senior leadership responsibilities within the business unit.
- Lead an operational team, setting objectives, managing performance and ensuring that staff have the necessary skills to deliver the project objectives.
- Accountable for delivery of a project or projects (affordable residential, developer-led, PRS, BtR, PBSA) with reasonably high level of complexity to budget, quality and time metrics.
- Accountable for delivery of timely and accurate data collection, analysis and reports.
- Responsible for interpreting and communicating project support policies, processes and systems.
- Responsible for communicating and highlighting project process compliance issues to project managers.
- Work within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans, schedules, and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets.
- Deliver/assist to manage medium to large scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.
- Management of any project risks or issues to ensure the project is not adversely impacted and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards.
- Analyse and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making.
- Interact effectively across the organisation, completing complex professional level tasks for others in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Chartered professional with relevant experience including management of projects ranging from £10m to £100m+.
- Good previous prime and affordable residential, developer-led, PRS, BtR, PBSA project experience.
- ‘Practitioner’ level expertise in one or more service lines.
- Good communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships.
- Building the ability to negotiate and manage relationships with external stakeholders.
- Commercial acumen and organisational understanding.
- A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects.
- Knowledge of own area and a general understanding of wider programme and business.
- Knowledge of the South West market particularly Bristol.
- Knowledge of the South Wales / Cardiff market would be an added advantage.
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 we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. 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.
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