As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role Description
Role Accountabilities
- Lead operational teams by setting objectives, managing performance, and ensuring staff have the necessary skills.
- Translate business goals into financial targets, business cases, and project plans while managing budgets and profitability.
- Manage complex, multi-disciplinary projects with mid- to long-term timelines to meet delivery standards.
- Monitor team performance and enforce organisational policies and codes of conduct.
- Ensure contract compliance with delivery parameters and scope.
- Analyse data and advise clients and stakeholders on project impacts.
- Develop and improve project management processes aligned with business objectives.
- Foster relationships with internal stakeholders to enhance efficiency and collaboration.
- Provide technical expertise and strategic advice to senior managers.
- Build and maintain client relationships, ensuring alignment and clear communication.
- Lead account management and bid writing initiatives.
Qualifications & Experience
- Professional experience supporting or delivering projects as a Project Manager for clients in the Education sector (Higher Education experience highly desirable)
- Laboratory project experience preferred
- Proven ability in managing complex projects and leading teams
- Recognised project management expertise in your field
- Experience managing executive-level business relationships
- Account leadership and bid writing experience
Candidates must demonstrate professional project management experience and have ideally supported higher education sector clients.
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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Skills Required
- Professional project management experience delivering projects for education clients
- Higher education sector experience
- Laboratory project experience
- Proven ability managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects and leading teams
- Recognised project management expertise (certification or demonstrable expertise)
- Experience managing executive-level business relationships
- Account leadership and bid writing experience
- Confidence in direct client engagement and effective time management to meet deadlines and profitability targets
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
