Major Projects Director, Mobility Canada

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 Canada is looking for a Major Projects Director to lead the pursuit and delivery of major projects across country for the Mobility Global Business Area (GBA) to optimize Arcadis global financial and brand position.

Projects will be highly complex requiring delivery through several countries and be multi-year delivering benefits cross the Mobility GBA. Projects managed will be high profile and will attract significant public attention on a national and global scale.

This role will report into the Mobility Canada Business Area Director with a dotted line to the Mobility Canada Operations Director.

Role accountabilities:

In this role you will be expected to win and deliver major projects. You will develop detailed project execution strategies to support the development of high-value project pursuits and play a lead role in the pursuit process. You will manage relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for improved efficiencies both project-wide and in cross-organizational/GBA working to ensure commercial viability and customer satisfaction. You will work with GBA leadership to review and support high-risk projects and contribute to wider organizational initiatives to improve performance. Additionally you will influence a range of senior stakeholders and manage critical relationships to ensure all parties are informed and aligned about how to deliver project objectives.

This candidate will also lead motivate and develop a diverse project team of senior specialists by setting objectives and reviewing performance to ensure staff are driven and have the necessary skills to deliver the project objectives. You will lead strategic negotiations including contract negotiations with customers contractors stakeholders and major suppliers.

Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model we seek leaders with a strong fit to our leadership success profile to build and drive our culture of inclusion accountability human-centricity and sustainability. Successful leaders at Arcadis will possess strong learning agility combined with a balanced mix of being curious driving success and igniting passion.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors or masters degree
• 15 years of experience pursing and leading major projects within a multinational engineering or professional services firm
• Qualifications in financial/business management client management innovation and leadership are highly desirable
• Demonstrated experience creating and leading high performing teams

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. 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.