Associate Director Asset Management

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.
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 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 continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
This opportunity sits within the Asset Management Transformation team, part of our growing and dynamic UK Business Advisory (Management Consulting) practice. This team is dedicated to enhancing the organisational maturity of our clients for making better decisions to maximise value from their built or natural assets over the whole lifecycle, underpinned by adoption of best practices and innovation, better strategies and planning, upskilling workforces and data led decision-making that optimises outcomes for customers, stakeholders, and society in a sustainable way. We are a diverse team of management consultants with an asset management specialism, bringing together experience from engineering, technical, commercial, and business backgrounds.
Our Asset Management Transformation (Business Advisory) team provides advice and delivers change programmes and initiatives for clients across a wide range of infrastructure, asset types and sectors, including but not limited to Rail, Roads, Water and Electricity Utilities, Defence, Environment, Central and Local Government.
Our experts in asset management and business transformation collaborate closely with specialists across Arcadis in technical, digital, commercial and other domains, providing both best practice market insights and practical implementation advice. This distinctive position creates unique career opportunities. The scope of our team’s services covers:

• Transformation strategy and capability development across business, data and digital
• Strategic asset management planning and decision support through the whole lifecycle
• Benefits led decision making for asset or capability improvement projects and portfolios
• Operational process and performance improvement
• Regulatory, risk and resilience advisory

At the same time, we aim at strengthening our position as a leading global consulting firm. A key priority is to integrate our teams across geographies by service, while further diversifying our asset management team – creating exciting international assignment opportunities.
Role accountabilities:
The Asset Management Transformation team has growing and diverse membership, with expertise in supporting clients with making better decisions to maximise value from built or natural assets over their whole lifecycle. We are seeking an Associate Director to join its leadership, who is excited about joining a diverse and growing team and driving further success and outstanding client experience within an inclusive and people-focused environment.
The successful candidate will bring experience of asset management transformation as well as market intelligence within our relevant industries (Infrastructure, Transportation, Water, Energy, Utilities, Defence, etc.). This will be aligned with strong business development and sales generation experience in a consulting environment, team leadership, stakeholder engagement and relationship development skills, and a desire to work in a flexible and agile environment. The role offers the opportunity to play a key role in our growth, and a platform for senior leadership in our business.
Specifically, the role involves:

• Leading significant (and multiple) client projects and accounts from sales / bidding to solution design and activity planning, successful delivery and knowledge capture. This sales and commission leadership will include management of multi-disciplinary teams and achieving successful commercial outcomes for Arcadis.
• Diagnosing and tackling complex asset-centric related issues, across large-scale consulting engagements, designing and implementing solutions that demonstrate benefits and value delivered.
• Leading teams that utilise insights and analysis of markets, trends, risks and opportunities to inform potential solutions, recommendations and outcomes to clients and stakeholders.
• Leads business development and sales for our value propositions, including leadership of relevant bids, to significantly contribute to the growth of our Asset Management Transformation capability and the wider Business Advisory business unit.
• Managing the delivery of exceptional client experience from project mobilisation through to handover, focusing on understanding client’s needs, building lasting relationships and delivering on our promises.
• Being a subject matter expert and thought leader within one or more of our value propositions, taking ownership for the continuous development of our offerings.
• Active member of the UK&I and Global asset management community of practice, supporting continuous development of our solutions and delivery approach.
• Provide line management, coaching and mentoring to future talent within our consultant community to support their development.
• Support and own aspects of our team’s strategy and capability building activities.
• Support the ‘on-project’ development of team members’ skills to help them achieve their career goals.

Qualifications & Experience:
Whether you come from a built asset or consulting background, you will join an entrepreneurial and inclusive team that is growing fast. Ideally you will be a proven professional in the natural or built asset environment coming from either an organisation which owns, operates, or manages assets, or a consulting organisation, with demonstrable experience of what it takes to grow a business and build lasting client relationships. You will be a problem solver and output thinking individual, who can understand clients’ business needs and provide impactful solutions.
You will also have the following key skills and expertise:

• Demonstrable track record of leading asset management or management consulting projects in a relevant sector (Infrastructure, Transportation, Water, Energy, Utilities, Defence, etc.).
• Being considered a thought leader in one or more phases of the asset lifecycle (strategy and planning, design and build, operations and maintenance, or decommissioning), and in particular to one or more of the following services:
• Asset management operating model design & transformation programmes
• ISO 55001 aligned asset management system development
• Regulatory business planning and adaptive planning
• Asset portfolio investment prioritisation & optimisation
• Benefit-led prioritisation of asset management improvements, innovation and business change programmes
• Operational efficiency improvement
• Asset information and data maturity improvement
• Significant experience in business development, bidding and securing sales in a consulting environment.
• A strong understanding of how management consulting projects are typically delivered – from project start & mobilisation, through to delivering clients requirements and expectations.
• Exceptional communication skills with experience of developing and maintaining client and stakeholder relationships up to senior levels (ideally including Board/Exec level stakeholders).
• Excellent team leadership, collaboration and commercial management skills.
• Demonstrable ability to understand and assess business problems and build and communicate practical improvement recommendations.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
Relevant industry qualifications to Business Advisory or Asset Management are preferable, and/or a member of a relevant industry body, or the desire of working towards one; including, but not limited to, MCA (Management Consultants Association) and/or IAM (Institute of Asset Management).
Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.
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 do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, 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.
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.
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.