Global Account Leader - Technology Sector (Consulting & Engineering Services)

Poutrix; London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent consultancy firm is seeking a Global Account Leader to manage strategic relationships with a major technology client. This role involves developing account strategies, inspiring cross-functional teams, and ensuring exceptional client experiences. Candidates should have a strong sales strategy background in the technology sector and proven success in leading diverse teams. This position requires a strategic mindset and commercial acumen, focusing on sustainable and profitable growth.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Proven track record of developing and implementing sales strategies.
• Ability to inspire multidisciplinary teams.
• Entrepreneurial attitude with a strong commercial focus.
• Experience navigating complex organizations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement global account strategies.
• Drive profitable growth and lead account teams.
• Ensure exceptional client experience at each interaction.
• Foster a positive culture within the global account team.

Skills

Sales strategy development

Team leadership

Client relationship management

Commercial acumen

Data-driven decision making

Education

Experience in the technology sector

Experience in international project management

Job description

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 toimproving 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:

We are seeking to a Global Account Leader to lead and grow Arcadis’ long-term, sustainable, profitable relationship with a leading multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. This position requires a strategic leader who will drive client development, account strategy, and operational excellence in collaboration with cross-functional teams, ensuring Arcadis is positioned as a trusted partner to the client.

Reporting to the Global Market Sector Director (Technology), the Global Account Leader can be based across any of the GBA Countries where Arcadis has a registered legal entity.You will work under the direction of the global market sector and Business Area leadership, and will be responsible for developing and implementing the account strategy; driving profitable and growth; leading the account team in pursuing and delivering diversified services across all four Arcadis Business Areas.

Role accountabilities:

• Develop and implement a global account strategy aligned with Arcadis' market sector strategies and the client’s diverse business needs.
• Translate the strategy into actionable annual and multi-year account plans with clear objectives and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure alignment across geographies, solutions, and teams to deliver consistent value to the client
• Drive growth in bookings, gross margin, and Days Revenue Outstanding (DRO) to meet or exceed planned targets.
• Expand Arcadis’ relationships across the client’s operations and key stakeholders globally.
• Collaborate with Arcadis Solutions teams to create differentiated service offerings and value propositions tailored to the client’s needs.
• Prioritize client experience (CX) at every interaction, ensuring the client receives exceptional service and innovation.
• Develop and implement pursuit strategies for key opportunities with the client.
• Foster a positive, growth-oriented culture within the global account team, emphasizing accountability and collaboration.
• Inspire multidisciplinary teams, aligning them around shared objectives and supporting their professional growth.
• Mobilize talent across geographies and sectors to maximize impact, leveraging diverse perspectives and expertise.
• Position Arcadis as a thought leader in the client’s sector globally, leveraging innovation, data, and sustainability practices.
• Collaborate with peers within Arcadis’ global sector teams to identify synergies and drive impactful initiatives.
• Support marketing strategies (campaigns, events) to amplify Arcadis’ impact with the client.
• Growth of the client’s global account, including strategic pursuits and diversification across geographies, solutions, and business lines.
• Development and execution of the client’s strategy, leveraging insights from market sectors and industry trends.
• Leadership and alignment of the global account team

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven track record of developing and implementing sales strategies to grow global client accounts profitably.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire multidisciplinary teams and foster collaboration across diverse geographies and functions.
• Ambitious mindset with a drive to meet and exceed business targets.
• Entrepreneurial attitude with strong commercial acumen and strategic focus.
• Experience as a senior client leader with significant presence in the technology sector, particularly in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
• Ability to navigate complex organizations and build relationships across the client’s operational and leadership teams.
• Strong ability to position Arcadis as a trusted advisor and partner through innovative and sustainable solutions.
• Experience working internationally, across industries, business lines, and functions, managing projects with global impact.
• Ability to leverage data-driven decision-making and adopt emerging technologies to create and demonstrate value for the client.
• Experience attracting, developing, and mobilizing talent in diverse markets, fostering a culture of growth and accountability.

Aligned to 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 Arcadians will possess strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.

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We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

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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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