Senior Consultant – Investment Advisory (Data Centres & Technology)

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

If you’re a Management Consultant with a successful background gained within Consultancy, and a desire to achieve your career potential, read on. Our Infrastructure Financial Institutions Advisory team delivers the highest value Mergers, Acquisitions and Disposals (M&A) services for clients across any form of infrastructure. Although the work is termed “technical”, it is strategic, exceptionally varied and touches organisation design, business planning, market development, commercial management, supply chain improvement, process improvement and asset management. Due to outstanding growth of the team we are looking for several talented individuals to join the team and are especially keen to hear from individuals from Senior Consultant level.

Whatever your background, you will join an entrepreneurial team that is growing fast. With the Infrastructure Financial Institutions team, you have the chance to be part of building a business, where most of our work involves high profile infrastructure assets and our clients are amazing names like Macquarie, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley. Every job is different and you will be regularly exposed to people that are generally board members of Arcadis’ largest clients. Most of our commissions are overseas but managed from the UK and generally working from Arcadis offices or from home. Overseas projects are generally in Europe, but also occasionally in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

The Management Consultant will be a key player within Arcadis by supporting the development and delivery of best-in-class M&A advisory commissions. The successful candidate should bring some relevant experience, but it is more important that you are creative, have an intellectual approach, and have an excellent command of written English. We are looking for someone who is analytical, able to process and synthesise information quickly and capable of reaching a conclusion. You also need to be a consummate team player, able to appreciate and value the input of your colleagues while occasionally working under extreme time pressure.

The team’s offer to the market is unique – and comments from clients frequently include words such as “amazing” and “we really like what you do”. These words are a pleasure to hear, but especially sweet when you consider how new the team is. Management consultants who want to develop a specialism in a particular sector can do this within this team and in a setting where they will address broad business aspects in areas beyond capex. The team is an excellent team, is highly supportive, collaborative and diverse in many ways although increasing all of these characteristics is always welcome; the team is recognised in the market for the quality of its people.

Beyond expertise in one or more of our core consulting disciplines, you will need a strong intellect, the ability to simplify the highly complex and a talent for showing clients that we have the right solutions to their most pressing issues.

Role accountabilities

• Senior Consultants must be able to act as a workstream resource on multiple concurrent projects and be accountable for the agreed deliverables.
• Can work independently and with the guidance of more experienced consultants.
• Highly flexible and quickly grasp new ideas and concepts on a project.
• Articulate in front of the client.
• Use evidence‑based analysis to identify root‑cause problems and articulate potential solutions.
• Design and carry out the analysis required to resolve issues / problems and support the business case for those solutions.
• Must contribute to internal team building and, at Senior Level, proposition development activities.
• Flexible in terms of daily work patterns as M&A work has large peaks and troughs.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience/ content knowledge and demonstrable track record of delivering due diligence or advisory services in the digital or TMT infrastructure sector.
• Content knowledge and practice of at least one of the following expertise areas: design review, supply chain management, operational improvement and cost reduction, organisation design, target operating model, business plan reviews, asset operations & maintenance, building services design, lenders technical advisor, budgeting & project planning, operational reporting, construction reporting, site condition survey.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (electrical, mechanical, architecture & Environmental design, building services).
• Experience in transactions for both UK and Mainland Europe is mandatory, US, Africa and Middle‑East is desirable.
• The candidate will ideally have some work experience as a building/mechanical engineer.
• Highly numerate and analytical (quantitative/ qualitative).
• Excellent written English but preferably with other European languages.
• Creative and innovative solutions design.
• Activity planning ability.
• Facilitation and influencing skills.
• Ability to deal well with ambiguity and new content in a very broad range of situations.
• Proven project delivery skills.
• Ability to engage and influence at all levels of stakeholder, both internally and externally.

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.