Principal Asset Management 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 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.

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 a Principal Asset Management 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 this newly established team. This position offers excellent opportunities for career development.

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

• Lead delivery of projects successfully; You will apply your skills, knowledge and insight to lead the delivery of asset management projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
• Support strategy development and implementation; Contribute to the development and implementation of our UK mobility asset management strategy and help build our global capability, applying recognised international standards such as ISO55000.
• Provide advisory services; Lead and support consultancy work across areas including development of our global capability, in particular in relation to the application of international asset management standards (e.g. ISO55000 suite) and risk/ performance‑based maintenance advisory.
• 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.

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 of working for a transportation client or other asset‑rich organisation, or in a consultancy environment within this space.
• Your experience will have supported the resolution of strategic, tactical and/or operational challenges.
• Examples may include one or more of the following: Asset management strategies, change programmes and/or planning. Asset investment planning. Risk and value assessments. Operations and maintenance. Development and deployment of decision support tools, asset information strategies and/or asset data quality assessments.
• Workstream and team leadership through the project lifecycle, from sales, solution design and activity planning to successful delivery and knowledge capture.
• Experience in managing business relationships and influencing clients and stakeholders.
• Experience in business development, tender delivery, bid preparation or evaluation of bids from either a client business development or bid team perspective.
• Delivery of asset, infrastructure or technology projects.
• Leadership experience, including managing professional team members or comparable responsibilities.
• Project management experience.
• A good communicator with a high level of numeracy skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.

Desirable

• You will have some experience of; Process development. Transportation or other critical infrastructure and/or operations. Benefits management. Data analysis.
• An understanding of risk management (e.g. FMECA, Bow Tie, Fishbone), ISO55000, asset management and/or Six Sigma processes and tools.
• Expertise in one or more phases of the asset lifecycle (strategy and planning, design and build, operations and maintenance, or decommissioning).
• A recognised external accreditation/qualification or Asset Management capability expertise (e.g. IAM) or interest in working towards.

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, LGBTQ; and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.