Associate Director Regional Local Authority Account Lead

Arcadis

Job Location:

Birmingham - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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:

We are seeking an established and highly credible Associate Director to lead manage and grow a strategically important Local Authority account within their region. This is a senior role requiring a strong blend of client leadership technical expertise and commercial acumen within a construction consultancy environment.

The role sits within our Project Management and/or Commercial Management service lines and spans commissions across Capital Delivery Regeneration Infrastructure Estates and Asset Management. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining excellent client relationships ensuring highquality delivery and supporting sustainable account growth.

This is a highly visible clientfacing position acting as a trusted advisor to senior Local Authority stakeholders while also playing a key leadership role internally.

Role accountabilities:

Client Leadership & Relationship Management -

Act as the senior daytoday lead for the Local Authority account managing key client relationships.
Build and sustain strong trusted relationships with senior officers procurement teams and other stakeholders.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of Local Authority governance procurement procedures frameworks and routes to market.
Represent the consultancy professionally and credibly at client meetings workshops and review sessions.

Account Development & Growth -

Support the development and delivery of the account management strategy identifying opportunities for growth and service expansion.
Contribute to framework bids tenders and fee proposals ensuring compliance with internal Governance.
Work collaboratively with other disciplines and service leads to deliver integrated solutions to the client.
Monitor workload pipeline and performance against agreed account objectives.

Delivery & Technical Leadership -

Provide project or commercial management leadership across a portfolio of commissions.
Ensure projects and programmes are delivered in line with agreed scope quality cost and programme requirements.
Maintain a strong personal delivery record and oversee the performance of project teams.
Promote best practice in project commercial and risk management

People & Internal Leadership -

Linemanage mentor and support junior and midlevel staff within the region.
Contribute to team development resource planning and performance management.
Act as a role model for the consultancys values behaviours and standards.

Qualifications & Experience:

Bachelors degree or equivalent in a relevant construction commercial engineering or built environment discipline.
Chartered or professionally qualified status with RICS CIOB APM or ICE (or demonstrably working towards chartership).
Valid CSCS card holder appropriate to role and level.
Demonstrable experience within a construction consultancy or similar professional services environment.
Strong experience working with Local Authority and wider publicsector clients.
Proven understanding of publicsector procurement frameworks and governance arrangements.
Established reputation within the region and a demonstrable track record of delivering complex commissions.
Confident and credible at senior client level.
Strong communication influencing and stakeholder management skills.
Commercially aware with a clear understanding of consultancy operations.
Collaborative leadership style with a handson approach to delivery.
Strategic mindset combined with attention to detail.

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.

Required Experience:

Director

DescriptionArcadis 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 c...