Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 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 solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Lead and assure delivery of a portfolio of Data Centre projects across North America, strengthening performance, consistency and client confidence. This senior leadership role is critical to mobilizing project teams, training, mentoring and developing cost, schedule and program management professionals, and driving consistent high-quality outputs from delivery teams. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the data centre market, coupled with the ability to engage with client stakeholders to provide confidence in delivery outcomes and demonstrate effective leadership of our delivery teams.
Role accountabilities:
• Lead North American portfolio delivery and provide visible executive oversight.
• Assure delivery against client commitments, governance and Arcadis standards.
• Set regional priorities, accountabilities and consistent ways of working.
• Coach delivery leaders and build a high-performing, accountable culture.
• Own senior delivery engagement with Client stakeholders.
• Lead resolution of material client concerns and delivery escalations.
• Direct portfolio reviews, health checks and corrective actions.
• Champion quality, right-first-time delivery and continuous learning.
• Sponsor portfolio improvement and the North American programmatic delivery model.
• Maintain executive oversight of risks, issues and dependencies.
• Use insight to anticipate risk, target intervention and lead recovery.
• Establish clear reporting across delivery, quality, commercial and resource performance.
• Drive integrated resource, capacity and capability planning.
• Connect projects, locations and global expertise to improve consistency.
• Align talent deployment, mobilisation and succession with portfolio priorities.
Qualifications & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Proven experience in Senior leadership of programmes, portfolios or multi-project delivery.
• 5 years of Data centre, mission-critical or comparable capital-sector experience preferred.
• Chartership or accreditation such as MRICS, MCIOB, PMP, PgMP or APM desirable.
• Complex capital portfolio experience across dispersed teams.
• Credible executive client and stakeholder leadership.
• Proven governance, assurance and performance improvement.
• Strong project controls, risk, quality, commercial and resource expertise.
• Matrix leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
• Effective intervention in challenging delivery environments.
• Ability and willingness to travel across the United States to support delivery teams.
• Proven commitment to health, safety, sustainability, and the efficient delivery of large-scale technology infrastructure projects.
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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Senior leadership experience overseeing programs, portfolios, or multi-project delivery
- At least 5 years of data centre, mission-critical, or comparable capital-sector experience
- Chartership or accreditation such as MRICS, MCIOB, PMP, PgMP, or APM
- Complex capital portfolio experience across dispersed teams
- Executive client and stakeholder leadership experience
- Experience with governance, assurance, and performance improvement
- Strong project controls, risk, quality, commercial, and resource management expertise
- Matrix leadership experience across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience intervening effectively in challenging delivery environments
- Ability and willingness to travel across the United States
- Commitment to health, safety, sustainability, and efficient delivery of large-scale technology infrastructure projects
Arcadis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcadis and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcadis.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is frequently described as good, with strong medical benefits cited in multiple regions. Feedback suggests healthcare is a relative bright spot within the total rewards package.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) and pension offerings are often called out positively, with contributions viewed as solid. Feedback suggests retirement benefits enhance the overall package even when salary sentiment is mixed.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working arrangements, hybrid options, and wellbeing support (such as EAP and benefits platforms) are commonly highlighted. Feedback suggests the flexibility of the package adds meaningful value beyond base pay.
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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
