Associate Director Asset Management

Description

• 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.
• Support and own aspects of our team’s strategy and capability building activities.
• Leading teams that utilise insights and analysis of markets, trends, risks and opportunities to inform potential solutions, recommendations and outcomes to clients and stakeholders.
• 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 the ‘on-project’ development of team members’ skills to help them achieve their career goals.
• Benefits led decision making for asset or capability improvement projects and portfolios
• 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.
• 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.
• Diagnosing and tackling complex asset-centric related issues, across large-scale consulting engagements, designing and implementing solutions that demonstrate benefits and value delivered.

Requirements

• Demonstrable track record of leading asset management or management consulting projects in a relevant sector (Infrastructure, Transportation, Water, Energy, Utilities, Defence, etc.).
• Exceptional communication skills with experience of developing and maintaining client and stakeholder relationships up to senior levels (ideally including Board/Exec level stakeholders).
• Significant experience in business development, bidding and securing sales in a consulting environment.
• ISO 55001 aligned asset management system development
• A strong understanding of how management consulting projects are typically delivered – from project start & mobilisation, through to delivering clients requirements and expectations.
• Demonstrable ability to understand and assess business problems and build and communicate practical improvement recommendations.
• 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:
• Excellent team leadership, collaboration and commercial management skills.

Benefits

• Benefit-led prioritisation of asset management improvements, innovation and business change programmes

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance