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 description:
We have an opportunity for an Associate Director - Project Management to join our Local Government team, delivering projects across London and the South-East. You'll be leading service delivery and work on a range of exciting projects, including complex and challenging housing development and regeneration projects and programmes at all stages.
As an Associate level Project Manager/Employer's Agent, you will deliver excellent client outcomes by leading and providing senior thought leadership as part of teams delivering built asset projects, predominantly, but not exclusively, to local authority clients.
The team are currently working on several housing led mixed-use regeneration projects, with projects sized units and construction values of £40m-£385m.
Role accountabilities:
* The day-to-day delivery of high quality, profitable services to clients and working with colleagues to manage £multi-million projects and programmes from inception through feasibility, design and planning stages, construction, completion and occupation/operation
* Helping to create project plans and then executing and managing them effectively for clients, managing risk, change and programme delivery effectively
* Assembling and leading multi-disciplinary design and consultancy teams, often with a mixture of Arcadis colleagues, sub-consultants and consultants appointed by the client
* Acting as Contract Administrator, Employers Agent for JCT contracts or Project Manager for NEC contracts.
Qualifications & Experience:
First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:
* A relevant professional qualification
* Experience of leading housing, regeneration, mixed-use and new settlement projects in London from inception to completion including planning processes, land use and development viability
* Experience in programme management of complex portfolios of sites
* Experience of change management within complex regeneration environments
* Ability to align projects with economic development strategies and sustainability goals, helping build the business case for development
* A track record of project delivery excellence, client care and commission growth
* Experience of working in or for London local authority clients or other registered providers
* Experience of effective and collaborative leadership of multi-disciplinary teams (internal and external)
* Ability and desire to engage and negotiate effectively with stakeholders including a broad range of local authority clients, statutory bodies, funding bodies, developers, residents and users
* Experience of public sector procurement strategy, processes, contract negotiation, and compliance
* Experience managing partnerships and third-party contractors
* Knowledge and understanding of project management and employer's agent servicers at all stages of projects, with a particular focus on design and construction.
* A hunger to learn and develop and a drive to deliver excellent outcomes for our clients.
* Ability to incorporate innovative solutions into regeneration schemes.
* A digital mindset, with the ability to use technology to better manage 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. 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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