Global Workplace Projects Director

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:

Reporting to the Global Workplace Director this role is to provide project management leadership and expertise to support the global property portfolio transformation. The Global Workplace Project Director is professionally accountable for the operational delivery of all portfolio CAPEX projects across the core office estate. This role will drive a culture of service excellence through continuous improvements and commercially sound decisions relating to all aspects of CAPEX projects including fit for purpose buildings and workplaces by delivering efficient and effective services to meet customer needs whilst balancing the delivery of the Capital Budget Plan to support business objectives and smarter working standards.

Role accountabilities:

• You will play a key role in helping our us deliver our Workplace Promise to ensure it meets people client and financial objectives.
• Your primary responsibility will be to organize the delivery of multiple fit out projects around the world including assembling in country delivery teams to create efficient delivery models.
• Create and implement comprehensive project plans ensuring that project deliverables are achieved on time and in line with budgetary guidelines.
• Draft project requirement documents ensuring that all desired functionality and deliverables are properly defined and communicated.
• Understands the business needs for the project to enable a robust investment planning and benefits.
• Accountable as key point of across the identified project for interdependency risk and change management.
• Effective management of stakeholders both in the program and in BAU
• Develop and manage project planning issue management knowledge management documentation and meeting structure.
• Provide analysis around timelines to develop a point of view on sequencing of transformation globally to minimize disruption on the day-to-day business.
• Continually evaluate processes to ensure any future state recommendations still fit within the original goals.
• Create a holistic approach to communicate with and engage stakeholders to maximize impact and influence to ensure alignment against program outcomes.
• Responsible for providing business analysis measurements and reporting using internal data as well as independent external sources to measure the effectiveness of both current operations and specific project deliverables.
• Provide strategic and tactical leadership for the team that ensures the function goals are achieved there are improved efficiencies and customer satisfaction meet or exceed expectations during the course of the solution development and post implementation.
• Recognize key risks and issues and propose contingency plans to mitigate the risks to project leadership.
• Maintain a professional business relationship by directly and indirectly negotiating timeframes and matters pertaining to the program.
• Oversee compliance to all company/client policies and procedures.

Engage with senior leaders across the Enabling Functions GBA and transformation engine to understand the direction and feed this back into the strategy and transformation risk management process

Qualifications & Experience:

The candidate should ideally have a proven track record in corporate real estate CAPEX delivery and additionally for this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas:

• Leading transformation:Ability to bring people on ajourney to the unknown creating a sense of stability and security in uncertain times avoiding change fatigue.
• Managing change:Managing change operating with new business models programs or teams and driving standardization and automation at scale.
• Data and technology:Adopting data-driven decision making leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies.
• People management:Creating high performing teams communicating vision and purpose engaging others and ensuring aligned objectives. Caring for employee wellbeing and recognizing and celebrating success.
• Living our purpose:Mentoring and sponsoring people coming through the business and from outside. Proactively supporting communities and social initiatives and showing attention for the planet and sustainability.

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.

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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.