Job Description
Job ID
31014
Date Posted
2025-05-08
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:
Based in the UK, we have an exciting opportunity for a Technical Director to join the Consultancy (technical advisory) discipline within our Water Management business.
Water Management Consultancy provides a wide variety of technical and strategic advisory services, with a deep understanding of clients and the regulatory frameworks within the water, energy and environmental sector. We work as a trusted advisor with organisations facing complex or novel situations, providing strategic and technical advice from subject matter experts to help clients understand the situation and choose effective solutions.
Our end-to-end services cover strategies, roadmaps, and advisory services, often working on brand new or emerging initiatives for clients. The scope of these services span options appraisal, business case production, benefits management, design and delivery, business change and efficiency, programme and asset management, digital solutions, consenting and stakeholder engagement. We help out clients navigate these difficult and complex workstreams and help them realise their goals, be it flood risk management, carbon reduction, or improved benefits realisation.
The challenges our clients face are multi-faceted, and so our team prides itself on taking a holistic approach to our clients needs and the solutions available. Our team has expertise in technical fields such as flood risk management, nutrient neutrality, integrated water management and water resources, to name a few. Where additional experience is needed, we work in close collaboration with Arcadis’ global community of technical experts to lead multi-disciplinary teams that provide co-ordinated, sustainable solutions. We bring to our clients the full breadth of experience and knowledge that Arcadis can offer to achieve the best client outcomes.
Responding to our clients demands we are strengthening our capability in regulatory expertise, policy & legislation, consenting and environmental compliance (eg WFD, CAR) this complementing our existing skills and accelerating across the gap between engineering and environmental solutions for aligned market propositions for our clients (eg, Nature Based Solutions)
Role Accountabilities:
Reporting to the Water Management Technical Services Capability Lead and working alongside the Discipline Lead for Water Management Consultancy, you will be a senior member of the Water Management business, working collaboratively with Portfolio Directors and peers across other teams. You will play a vital role in growing the business and creating opportunity. Additional responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
- Applying your skills, knowledge, and insight to oversee the delivery of projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
- Engagement with current and potential clients to understand and meet their needs
- Working with Portfolio Directors and Client’s Account Leads to support commercial growth and ensuring the profitable operation of the accounts.
- Engage with the Water Management Growth Lead to define and deliver sector focused growth plan for specific area of expertise.
- Self motivated to identify consultancy advisory opportunities for pursuits; leading or contributing to effective and efficient bid management and technical support.
- Creating and promoting marketing and capability material for the team’s services and contributing to the company’s wider marketing.
- Collaborating with key members and resources from the Water Management teams, our Global Excellence Centres and wider business to deliver seamless service offerings.
- Encouraging innovative and entrepreneurial thinking among team members.
- Support the development of the team with CPD, mentoring and building an effective development structure through relevant professional development programmes.
- Contribute to thought leadership in the water management business in your particular area(s) of technical expertise.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Experience of working at a senior level ideally within the water management sector, with a wider environmental and industry background
- Knowledge and experience of natural physical system behaviour and application in engineering schemes (eg Geomorphology)
- Well-developed commercial skills with a demonstrated ability in sales, bidding, and business development and the ability to convert conceptual ideas into opportunities
- Ability and enthusiasm to build teams and accounts through a highly collaborative approach
- The confidence and flexibility to thrive in the delivery of projects in structured and unstructured work environments
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and lead a team with good influencing, motivating and delegation skills
- Confident communicator and strong relationship building skills, both internally and externally
- Chartered status and membership of a relevant professional institution (e.g. CIWEM, ICE, APM)
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.
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