Description 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 accountabilities: The Director for Investment Advisory will: Lead the delivery of large projects, ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management, and fostering communication and collaboration among Arcadis colleagues. Develop trusted relationships with client team members at the Executive and Senior Management levels, leveraging these relationships to generate new business opportunities and propose innovative solutions that meet client and market needs. Contribute to the leadership of the “Fund” practice by assisting in setting objectives, managing performance, and ensuring the team possesses the necessary insights, knowledge, skills, and resources to achieve business plan objectives and professional development goals. Lead the establishment of key performance targets and financial budgets for the team, optimizing business performance in alignment with set objectives. Lead client relationships, monitoring performance, and taking appropriate action to meet or exceed client expectations while aligning with Arcadis' commercial objectives. Lead teams to shape and win bids for regional projects, ensuring profitability and alignment with client needs. Identify opportunities for innovation and the development of unique solutions and value propositions within their area of expertise. Provide inspiring and motivational leadership to teams, consistently embodying Arcadis Leadership principles. Drive the development of staff competence and skills, identifying regional and global growth and development needs within the solution domain. Qualifications & Experience: The ideal candidate will: Be recognised by clients and the market as an expert in their field (e.g., digital infrastructure advisory, M&A technical/commercial due diligence, lenders technical advisory). Bring significant consulting experience with a strong focus on their chosen advisory area. Demonstrate proven business development and sales conversion skills, with the ability to coach others to grow the practice. Possess leadership and people management skills, with a track record of collaborating across geographies. Have experience developing and managing client-facing consulting delivery approaches. Successfully manage senior and executive-level business relationships, with an ability to influence client behaviours and decisions in high-value, high-risk situations. Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model, successful candidates will: Build and drive a culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability. Demonstrate learning agility, curiosity, and a passion for driving success. 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.