Director - Strategy & Transformation

TN United Kingdom; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Director in Strategy & Transformation, where your expertise will drive market awareness and business development. In this pivotal role, you will lead project delivery, ensuring client satisfaction while fostering innovative solutions that address market needs. Collaborate with a globally connected team to enhance the Advisory brand and contribute to sustainable outcomes. If you're passionate about making a positive impact and inspiring others, this role offers the opportunity to shape the future of Advisory services and achieve significant revenue growth.

Qualifications

• Expert in Change Management and Leadership Development.
• Experienced in managing client relationships at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Drive market awareness and business development for Advisory propositions.
• Manage large projects and develop trusted client relationships.

Skills

Change Management

Leadership Development

Business Development

Client Relationship Management

People Centric Change

Education

Master's Degree in Business Administration

Bachelor's Degree in Management

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05.05.2025

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19.06.2025

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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

Your primary goal is to drive market awareness, sales pipeline, and business development activities for Advisory propositions within your chosen area of expertise: Strategy and Transformation (S&T). Your focus is on achieving agreed revenue targets aligned with market, sector, and client priorities. You will take a senior role in project delivery for Advisory engagements, ensuring successful outcomes and client satisfaction. Additionally, you will play a vital role in influencing and developing the Arcadis business, as well as the Advisory Communities of Practice, Service Capabilities, and Value Propositions.

In this role, you will contribute to the creation of strategies, identify opportunities to scale leading practices, and support a globally connected team. Collaborating with our four Global Business Areas (Mobility, Places, Resilience, and Intelligence), you will leverage their capabilities as needed to support the UK Advisory team and promote the integration of Arcadis' technical services. You will actively support the UK Advisory go-to-market strategy, driving profitable growth while meeting the increasing demand for Advisory services. As a key member of the UK Strategy and Transformation management team, you will contribute to the overall success of the practice.

This specific role is to spearhead our market-facing activity into clients across our GBAs to take existing services and where necessary develop new services for clients. We have existing capabilities in Strategy and Transformation, which we are converting into market-ready solutions, and this role would be required to strengthen these as well as build market presence to secure opportunities and revenue. We are looking for a lead to support taking our capabilities and solutions to more of our clients with a view to securing initial revenues of c1m in year 1, growing to > 3m by end of year 3. It should be noted that Arcadis has routes to market for major clients in the UK.

The Director's role is to:

• Spearhead the development and promotion of integrated and innovative propositions that address client and market needs, while strengthening the Advisory brand in the market.
• Drive exceptional client outcomes and commercial results through delivering excellent services across multiple client engagements.
• Foster trusted advisor relationships with clients' Executive, Senior Management, and subject matter experts (SMEs), understanding their needs, and providing tailored solutions through proactive business development and project delivery approaches.
• Drive thought leadership within the business and with clients, establishing themselves as a knowledgeable authority in their field, both within and outside Arcadis.
• Exhibit leadership values and behaviours that foster diversity and inclusion, well-being, and a positive culture within the Advisory team and beyond.
• Contribute to making a positive impact in the world and enhancing quality of life by pursuing business development and project delivery initiatives that promote sustainable and innovative outcomes.
• Inspire, motivate, and support the professional development and well-being of team members by prioritizing their growth and fostering a conducive work environment.

Additional responsibilities include managing large projects, developing trusted relationships, leading bid processes, identifying opportunities for innovation, and supporting the growth and visibility of the Strategy and Transformation capability.

Qualifications & Experience:

The candidate will be recognized by clients and the market as an expert within their chosen areas of specialty such as Change Management, Leadership Development and Learning, Operating Model, Workplace Transformation, Benefits Management, People Centric Change (including culture and behaviours).

They will be an experienced management consultant with a focus on their chosen area of Advisory expertise, possessing strong business development and sales skills, and capable of teaching these skills to others. The candidate should have experience managing client relationships at senior levels, influencing client behaviors, and handling high-risk, high-value situations effectively.

Aligned with the Arcadis Leadership model, we seek Arcadians with a strong fit to our leadership success profile, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability. Successful candidates will possess strong learning agility, curiosity, drive for success, and passion.