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Commercial Director - Data Centres (Nordics)

Arcadis

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GBP 75,000 - 110,000

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5 days ago

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Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Commercial Director for its Data Centres division in the Nordics. The successful candidate will lead major projects, ensuring quality and compliance while managing client relationships and team performance. The role requires extensive experience in construction and commercial management, underlining the importance of teamwork and commitment to quality of life enhancement.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Empowerment in career path

Commitment to equality and diversity

Qualifications

Experience leading data centre construction projects.
Extensive past experience in commercial roles.
In-depth technical knowledge of construction processes.

Responsibilities

Manage large, complex projects ensuring they meet or exceed client expectations.
Supervise and develop team members to support business growth.
Act as primary client contact for cost and commercial reporting.

Skills

Client relationship management

Cost management

Commercial awareness

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying or related field

Relevant professional certification (RICS, AACE)

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Play a key role delivering tech sector mega-projects.

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Director to join our rapidly growing team. You will play a key role in leading the delivery of one of our biggest data centre construction projects in the Nordics.

The successful candidate will be based either 100% in country, or there will be significant international travel to either Norway or Finland (50/50 or 11/3 rotations)

Role accountabilities:

Managing large projects or complex work streams, delivering defined outputs that meet or exceed client expectations.
Line management responsibility for the development and performance management of other team members to support the development of Arcadis’ business
May supervise teams of Cost and Commercial Specialists on multiple projects
Acting as primary client contact for all cost and commercial related reporting and quality assurance
Reviews teams work outputs before submission to client and other external groups
Maintaining a demonstrable understanding of the Client’s key objectives
Assuring compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
Using own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to support the development of current cost and commercial management systems and processes
Working to continually improve services and drive innovation

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline Quantity Surveying (Engineering, Construction Management,)
Relevant professional certification (i.e., RICS, AACE or similar)
Extensive previous experience in a similar role
In depth technical knowledge, including construction processes and cost & commercial management
Experience of leading smaller projects and supporting on larger more complex projects
Experience delivering analysis and insights
Experience working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships
Experience managing business relationships and supporting with middle management level activities

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s 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.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll 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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