Global Practice Group Director, Education
Global Practice Group Director, Education
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Job Description
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is seeking a Global Practice Group Director (GPGD) Education for the Architecture and Urbanism division of the Global Business Area Places. The GPGD reports to Business Unit Director.
As the GPGD Education you will oversee the Education practiceglobally within A&U ensuring consistency growth and excellence in service delivery across regions while aligning the practice groups goals with the overall organizational strategy .
Role accountabilities:
Implement the GAU Division strategy:
- Acts as the Division global interfaceresource fortheSales/Growth organization on behalf of AU. Is the conduit to the Arcadis enterprise and will be a connector SME andprovide information input and/or feedback as a representative of AU.
- Acts as the liaison to other Practice Group Directors and Managers across all market focus area to share information and lead coordination/collaboration activities services/solutions enterprise wide.
- Develop and implement the business plan and ensure the team understand it and the role that they play in its achievement through the development of the appropriate culture and the provision of context and clarity.
- Lead the identification and targeting of clients and opportunities to achieve profitable practice group growth. By working with teams and through the delivery of service excellence will drive organic revenue in the practice group.
Strategic Leadership and Business Development:
- Develop enduring relationships with clients to understand their business needs and ensure client satisfaction to improve retention and deliver organic revenue growth.
- Drive the growth of the practice group identifying new markets clients and opportunities
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders clients and partners to expand the organizations influence globally.
- Collaborate with marketing and sales teams to promote the practice groups services
- Facilitate the sharing of knowledge expertise and resources across different regions to foster collaboration and innovation
- Promote the adoption of new technologies tools and methodologies to enhance the practice groups capabilities
- Demonstrate thought leadership and innovation through publications speaking engagements visible external leadership
Build strong relationships and create successful teams:
- Provide guidance and mentorship to practice group managers and teams across regions
- Drive talent development initiatives including recruitment training and succession planning
- Create a culture of collaboration inclusivity continuous learning and feedback with the practice group.
- Standardize processes methodologies and best practices across all regions to ensure consistency and quality
- Monitor the performance of the practice group globally ensuring efficient resource allocation and adherence to budgets
- Coordinate with regional leaders to ensure alignment and seamless execution of initiatives
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelors degree or post-graduate qualification and/or fellowship in an appropriate professional institution
- Registered Architect or equivalent preferred
- Deep expertise in a the Educations Sector
- Substantial experience (18 years or more) in a discipline including 10 years experience in Architecture consultancy
- Experience leading and implementing complex business change solutions
- Experience managing business relationships at executive level
- Experience managing teams across geographies
- Significant experience on large-scale/highly complex projects
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its 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.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $136000 - $239000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.
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Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full-Time
