Associate Project Manager Commercial
Job Summary
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 an Associate Project Manager you will lead the delivery of large complex or higherrisk projects or a portfolio of projects operating with a high level of accountability while remaining actively involved in delivery. You will provide senior leadership to project teams manage significant commercial and delivery risks and work closely with client stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.
Alongside project responsibilities you will support the development of people and contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices within Arcadis.
Key Accountabilities
Project & Programme Leadership
- Lead the delivery of large or complex projects or a coordinated portfolio of projects ensuring delivery to agreed scope programme cost quality and safety requirements.
- Establish appropriate governance controls and reporting arrangements proportionate to project scale and risk.
- Manage delivery commercial and stakeholder risks escalating issues where necessary and ensuring appropriate mitigation is in place.
Commercial & Financial Management
- Hold accountability for project or portfoliolevel financial performance including budgets forecasts cashflow and risk exposure.
- Lead complex commercial discussions and negotiations within agreed authority levels.
- Support optimisation of financial performance through effective planning resourcing and risk management.
Client & Stakeholder Leadership
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Act as a trusted delivery lead for clients on complex or sensitive project matters.
- Support workwinning activities through input to bids proposals and delivery strategies.
Leadership & People Development
- Provide leadership mentoring and development support to Project Managers and Senior Project Managers.
- Contribute to succession planning and capability development within the Project & Programme Management community.
- Promote a positive inclusive and highperformance culture across project teams.
Risk Safety Health & Sustainability
- Champion high standards of safety health environmental and wellbeing performance.
- Ensure sustainable and responsible practices are embedded into project delivery.
Digital & Continuous Improvement
- Encourage effective use of digital tools data and delivery systems across projects.
- Lead or support improvement initiatives that enhance delivery efficiency quality and client value.
Qualifications & Experience
- Extensive experience managing large or complex infrastructure or builtenvironment projects in a consultancy or comparable environment.
- Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and lead multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong commercial and contractual awareness with experience managing significant delivery risk.
- Demonstrated experience supporting the development of people and teams.
- Chartered professional status with a recognised institution advantageous.
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.
Role Description
As an Associate Project Manager you will lead the delivery of large complex or higherrisk projects or a portfolio of projects operating with a high level of accountability while remaining actively involved in delivery. You will provide senior leadership to project teams manage significant commercial and delivery risks and work closely with client stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.
Alongside project responsibilities you will support the development of people and contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices within Arcadis.
Key Accountabilities
Project & Programme Leadership
- Lead the delivery of large or complex projects or a coordinated portfolio of projects ensuring delivery to agreed scope programme cost quality and safety requirements.
- Establish appropriate governance controls and reporting arrangements proportionate to project scale and risk.
- Manage delivery commercial and stakeholder risks escalating issues where necessary and ensuring appropriate mitigation is in place.
Commercial & Financial Management
- Hold accountability for project or portfoliolevel financial performance including budgets forecasts cashflow and risk exposure.
- Lead complex commercial discussions and negotiations within agreed authority levels.
- Support optimisation of financial performance through effective planning resourcing and risk management.
Client & Stakeholder Leadership
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Act as a trusted delivery lead for clients on complex or sensitive project matters.
- Support workwinning activities through input to bids proposals and delivery strategies.
Leadership & People Development
- Provide leadership mentoring and development support to Project Managers and Senior Project Managers.
- Contribute to succession planning and capability development within the Project & Programme Management community.
- Promote a positive inclusive and highperformance culture across project teams.
Risk Safety Health & Sustainability
- Champion high standards of safety health environmental and wellbeing performance.
- Ensure sustainable and responsible practices are embedded into project delivery.
Digital & Continuous Improvement
- Encourage effective use of digital tools data and delivery systems across projects.
- Lead or support improvement initiatives that enhance delivery efficiency quality and client value.
Qualifications & Experience
- Extensive experience managing large or complex infrastructure or builtenvironment projects in a consultancy or comparable environment.
- Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and lead multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong commercial and contractual awareness with experience managing significant delivery risk.
- Demonstrated experience supporting the development of people and teams.
- Chartered professional status with a recognised institution advantageous.
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.
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About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more