Business Director Regulated Water

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:

As investment across the water sector accelerates we are seeking a senior Business Director to join our UK Water leadership team. This role holds full accountability for commercial performance client relationships and the delivery of complex multidisciplinary programmes for the UKs largest water companies. It offers significant scale influence and the opportunity to lead in a sector undergoing fundamental transformation.

This role will lead the business unit with full P&L accountability driving disciplined delivery to protect margins and enable profitable sustainable growth. It will set and execute clear strategic plans build and maintain strong client relationships and align cross-functional teams to the business strategy.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations. Around the world were feeling the effects climate change rapid urbanization loss of biodiversity. The rate at which were seeing large-scale unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires is becoming more are here to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Take full ownership of the business units P&L driving revenue growth margin protection cost control utilisation cash flow and accurate forecasting with proactive corrective actions.
• Lead motivate and develop a senior team setting clear objectives and fostering a high-performance culture aligned to business goals.
• Develop and deliver the business plan ensuring the team understands their role in achieving targets.
• Identify and pursue profitable client opportunities ensuring robust pricing resourcing and margin protection.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships to drive satisfaction retention and sustainable growth.
• Coach project leaders to enforce strong governance and effective delivery that manage risk and safeguard margins.
• Spot and nurture talent in both technical and commercial functions promoting career development through targeted programs.
• Collaborate with service leads to optimise resource allocation improving utilisation and profitability.
• Oversee risk management and compliance to protect commercial outcomes and the business reputation.
• Maintain deep market and client insight to inform strategy growth priorities and investment decisions.
• Champion cross-functional collaboration to unlock cross-sell and trade-up opportunities aligned to growth and margin targets.

Qualifications & Experience:

Essential

• Mature and demonstrable experience in the water sector with demonstrable exposure to regulated water environments and/or major capital programmes.
• Degreequalifiedin a relevant engineering technical or professional discipline (e.g. Civil Mechanical Environmental Engineering Project or Programme Management Construction Management).
• Proven experience in a senior leadership rolewith accountability for P&L performance including revenue growth margin management cost control and resource utilisation.
• Strong track record of leading complex multidisciplinary teamsand delivering largescale programmes or portfolios in a consultancy delivery or clientside environment.
• Demonstrable experience of client leadership including developing senior client relationships securing repeat work and delivering profitable growth.
• Experience operating in matrixed organisations with the ability to work across business lines and actively drive crosssell and tradeup opportunities.
• Strong commercial and operational judgement with the ability to balance delivery risk and financial performance in highpressure environments.

Desirable

• Chartered status(e.g. CEng MAPM MCIOB or equivalent) or working towards chartership.
• Experience working with Tier 1 contractors joint ventures or international delivery partners.
• Exposure to major infrastructure programmes(100m) longterm frameworks or regulated capital investment cycles.
• Formal training or qualifications in commercial management leadership or business management(e.g. MBA executive leadership programmes).
• Experience contributing to or leading business transformation operating model change or performance improvement initiatives.

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 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.