Principal Consultant

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34000 people in over 30 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 a Principal Consultant in Arcadis Central Government practice you will serve as a senior advisor responsible for leading the delivery of high-impact consultancy and transformation programmes for central government departments agencies and public bodies. You will translate government policy and strategic objectives into actionable programmes driving digital organisational and infrastructure transformations that deliver sustainable and resilient this client-facing role you will build trusted relationships with senior civil servants manage multidisciplinary project teams and ensure excellence in both project delivery and commercial performance positioning Arcadis as a key partner to central government.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead client engagement at senior levels building trust understanding policy drivers and shaping longterm partnerships.
• Define and deliver complex multidisciplinary programmes and projects from inception to close ensuring scope quality timeline and budget objectives are met.
• Provide strategic advice on policy implementation digital transformation service design infrastructure planning and sustainability as relevant to the client brief.
• Develop winning commercial proposals and lead bid teams including pricing resourcing and risk allocation.
• Manage programme governance stakeholder management and escalation across departmental and crossgovernment interfaces.
• Mentor coach and develop consultants and project teams; promote inclusive highperformance working practices.
• Produce and present thought leadership briefings and evidencebased recommendations for senior stakeholders and public audiences.
• Ensure compliance with public sector procurement security and data requirements; manage contractual and financial performance to maintain profitability.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Typically 10 years consulting or senior public sector experience with a proven track record delivering complex programmes or transformations for central government departments or national agencies.
• Deep understanding of central government structures policy development funding mechanisms procurement frameworks and governance.
• Demonstrable experience in commercial bid leadership stakeholder engagement at Senior Civil Service or equivalent level and programme delivery.
• Strong skills in strategic analysis service design change management digital transformation or infrastructure delivery (one or more specialisms required).
• Degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Public Policy Business Engineering Urban Planning) and preferred professional certifications (e.g. PRINCE2 MSP APM relevant technical credentials).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills political sensitivity and the ability to operate effectively in highpressure visible environments.

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.

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