Senior Project Manager

Arcadis; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Project Manager in the United Kingdom. In this role, you will oversee the delivery of complex projects, ensuring adherence to quality standards and managing client relationships. Responsibilities include financial management, team leadership, and risk management. Candidates should have experience managing medium to complex projects, with a chartered status preferred. Arcadis is committed to equality and inclusion, promoting a diverse and skilled workforce.

Qualifications

• Experience managing medium to complex projects in infrastructure, rail, or built environments.
• Proven ability to manage project teams and multidisciplinary inputs.
• Sound commercial awareness managing project finances and contracts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of projects to agreed scope, programme, cost, quality, and safety.
• Act as the primary point of contact for project-level clients.
• Promote safety and uphold environmental standards across projects.

Skills

Project delivery

Client management

Financial management

Risk management

Team leadership

Education

Chartered status or progression towards chartership with recognized professional body

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 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

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be accountable for the delivery of one or more complex projects, or a number of medium‑scale projects running in parallel. You will operate with a significant degree of autonomy, taking responsibility for day‑to‑day commercial performance, client relationships, delivery controls and people leadership within your projects. You will provide leadership to project teams, manage delivery risks and issues, and work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to ensure Arcadis’ delivery standards, quality objectives and commercial interests are met.

Key Accountabilities

Project Delivery & Governance

• Lead the delivery of projects to agreed scope, programme, cost, quality and safety requirements.
• Establish appropriate project delivery plans, controls and governance arrangements in line with Arcadis standards.
• Manage delivery risks and issues, escalating where appropriate and implementing agreed mitigation measures.
• Lead project reviews and contribute to assurance and reporting activities.

Financial & Commercial Management

• Manage project finances, including budgets, forecasts, cashflow and WIP, within agreed authority levels.
• Administer contractual requirements and support effective commercial risk management.
• Lead or contribute to the management of variations and fee changes with clients and suppliers.
• Support optimisation of project financial performance through effective cost control and resource management.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients at project level, building and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve day‑to‑day delivery issues in a professional and timely manner.
• Identify opportunities to enhance client value and support repeat or follow‑on work.

People Leadership & Development

• Line manage and support Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers or project resources as required.
• Provide coaching, feedback and development support to build capability within the project team.
• Promote positive team behaviours and an inclusive, collaborative project culture.

Risk, Safety, Health & Sustainability

• Ensure proactive management of delivery, commercial and operational risks within projects.
• Promote and uphold safety, health, environmental and wellbeing standards across all project activities.
• Support the integration of sustainable and responsible practices into project delivery.

Digital & Continuous Improvement

• Encourage effective use of project management systems, data and digital tools.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and the sharing of lessons learnt.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience managing medium to complex projects within an infrastructure, rail or built environment context.
• Proven ability to manage project teams and coordinate multidisciplinary inputs.
• Sound commercial awareness with experience managing project finances and contractual requirements.
• Strong client‑facing and communication skills.
• Chartered status or progression towards chartership with a recognised professional body (APM, ICE or equivalent).

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.

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.