North America Data Centre Programme Director

Arcadis; Leeds; On-site; GBP 113,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis seeks a Senior leader to direct a North American data centre portfolio, providing executive oversight and driving delivery excellence across multiple projects. The role emphasizes governance, client confidence, and high-quality outputs from dispersed delivery teams.

You will mentor delivery leaders, align regional priorities, and ensure right-first-time delivery while managing risks, dependencies, and reporting. Travel across the United States is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Proven experience in Senior leadership of programmes, portfolios or multi-project delivery.
• 5 years of Data centre, mission-critical or comparable capital-sector experience preferred.
• Chartership or accreditation such as MRICS, MCIOB, PMP, PgMP or APM desirable.
• Complex capital portfolio experience across dispersed teams.
• Credible executive client and stakeholder leadership.
• Proven governance, assurance and performance improvement.
• Strong project controls, risk, quality, commercial and resource expertise.
• Matrix leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
• Effective intervention in challenging delivery environments.
• Ability and willingness to travel across the United States to support delivery teams.
• Proven commitment to health, safety, sustainability, and the efficient delivery of large-scale technology infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead North American portfolio delivery and provide visible executive oversight.
• Assure delivery against client commitments, governance and Arcadis standards.
• Set regional priorities, accountabilities and consistent ways of working.
• Coach delivery leaders and build a high-performing, accountable culture.
• Own senior delivery engagement with Client stakeholders.
• Lead resolution of material client concerns and delivery escalations.
• Direct portfolio reviews, health checks and corrective actions.
• Champion quality, right-first-time delivery and continuous learning.
• Sponsor portfolio improvement and the North American programmatic delivery model.
• Maintain executive oversight of risks, issues and dependencies.
• Use insight to anticipate risk, target intervention and lead recovery.
• Establish clear reporting across delivery, quality, commercial and resource performance.
• Drive integrated resource, capacity and capability planning.
• Connect projects, locations and global expertise to improve consistency.
• Align talent deployment, mobilisation and succession with portfolio priorities.

Skills

Senior leadership

Executive stakeholder engagement

Governance & assurance

Risk & quality management

Program & portfolio delivery

Cross-disciplinary leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or related field

Job description

Arcadis seeks a Senior leader to direct a North American data centre portfolio, providing executive oversight and driving delivery excellence across multiple projects. The role emphasizes governance, client confidence, and high-quality outputs from dispersed delivery teams.

You will mentor delivery leaders, align regional priorities, and ensure right-first-time delivery while managing risks, dependencies, and reporting. Travel across the United States is required.