Asset Management Principal Consultant in Birmingham

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.

Arcadis is committed to becoming the leading asset management organisation, helping clients maximize the performance and value of their physical and natural assets across the entire lifecycle from planning and creation through to maintenance, operation, and disposal. By combining digital innovation, engineering expertise, data analytics and consultancy, we deliver sustainable and predictive solutions that enable asset intensive organisations to make better decisions in an ever-changing environment.

We are seeking an Asset Management Principal Consultant to join our UK rail asset management team. In this role, you will contribute to delivering our rail asset management strategy, lead consultancy projects, and develop value propositions within the rail sector. You will also support our wider global advisory business across mobility, resilience, and places.

As part of the mobility division, reporting to an associate director, you will play a key role in shaping and growing the rail asset management team. This position offers excellent opportunities for career development, with scope to manage colleagues and act as a subject matter expert in asset management. We are looking for individuals with a growth mindset who are eager to help build a unified, forward-looking asset management offering.

As part of our team, you’ll help deliver some of our biggest, most iconic projects, as part of a highly talented and experienced team. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanisation and digitisation trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimise the mobility of people and goods.

Role accountabilities:

• Deliver projects successfully; You will apply your skills, knowledge and insight to enable the delivery of asset management projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
• Support strategy implementation; Contribute to the delivery and implementation of our UK mobility asset management strategy and help build our global capability, applying recognised international standards such as ISO55000 and risk/performance-based maintenance advisory.
• Developing asset management strategies, change programmes, and business cases.
• Designing and implementing ISO55001 aligned management systems.
• Optimising investment decisions and long-term business planning for asset portfolios.
• Creating tools and approaches for value driven decisions on asset renewals, maintenance, and improvements.
• Preparing asset strategies, management plans, and maintenance optimisation programmes.
• Driving operational efficiency improvements.
• Enhancing asset information strategies and improving data maturity.

Build strong relationships; Manage client and stakeholder engagement to deliver positive outcomes, ensuring trust and collaboration.

Promote growth and leadership; Represent Arcadis in the rail asset management market, contribute to thought leadership, support cross‑business tenders, and actively showcase our capabilities to create new opportunities. Manage client and stakeholder relationships to deliver positive outcomes. Drive market engagement and thought leadership to identify growth opportunities for Arcadis’ rail asset management services, support cross-business tenders and actively promote the company’s capabilities during client interactions.

Qualifications and experience:

Whether you come from a built asset or consulting background, you will join an entrepreneurial and inclusive team with an ambition to grow fast. Ideally you will be a proven professional in the built and natural asset environment coming from either an organisation which owns, operates, or manages assets, or a consulting organisation, with an understanding of what it takes to grow business and build relationships. You will be a problem solver and output-focused individual, who can understand clients’ business needs and deliver solutions.

Essential Experience: with transportation clients, asset-rich organisations, or consultancy in this space. Proven ability to resolve strategic, tactical, and operational challenges, including:

• Asset management strategies, change programmes, and planning.
• Investment planning, risk/value assessments, operations and maintenance.
• Decision support tools, asset information strategies, and data quality.
• Maturity gap analysis, benefits management, process development, and data analysis.
• Delivery or management of asset, infrastructure, or technology projects in the transport sector.
• Project management experience.
• Strong communication and numeracy skills.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline.
• Industry connections to support growth of Arcadis’ asset management business.
• Leadership experience managing professional teams.
• External accreditation (e.g., MCA or IAM) or willingness to work toward it.
• Experience in project and business change management.

Desirable: Tender/bid delivery or evaluation experience. Knowledge of risk management (FMECA, Bow Tie, Fishbone), ISO55000, Six Sigma. Expertise in asset lifecycle phases (strategy, design/build, operations, decommissioning).

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.

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.