Senior Project Manager at Arcadis

Iași, , Romania -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Apr, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

06 Jan, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Project Management, Leadership, Change Management, Data-Driven Decision Making, Technical Knowledge, Consultancy, Health and Safety, Talent Acquisition, Standardization, Automation, Team Development, Stakeholder Engagement, Transformation, Career Development, Workforce Planning, Engagement Management

Industry

Professional Services

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: Accountable for management of all projects or programs within the business area Accoutable for delivering scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and with deep technical knowledge and broad business experience Responsible for implementing policies and procedures in line with GEC country specific policies. Responsible for delivering team metrics in conjunction with Discipline Director Key interface with Discipline Director and Service Delivery Manager for performance of team, development of capabilities and progress on standardization and automation. Role accountabilities: Provide professional leadership in their BA team at a management level, establishing and consolidating relationships with senior staff in BA offices, taking ownership for the delivery of the GEC’s technical capability, supporting the delivery of tasks or specialized components of projects. Plan and drive the development of Arcadis’ capability and capacity in the BA team, aligned with Discipline wide plans to meet project demands. Work with Talent Acquisition and Learning Development to ensure BA team needs are understood and plans to meet them are in place. Drive a culture of project delivery excellence within the BA team, ensuring that adequate talent is available and assigned to lead on project delivery from a technical and task management perspective. Ensure the delivery of projects/tasks within the team is in accordance with Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets. · Engage with the senior leadership in the BA they collaborate with and champion the involvement and inclusion of GEC capability in their delivery model using SOPs to standardize the delivery approach. Drive the implementation of the GEC and Discipline strategy within the BA team, including managing changes associated with the operating model. · Communicate change and manage transformation within the team, aligned to the strategic direction of the company, GECs and Discipline. Develop and implement workforce plans regarding building capability and capacity of the teams over the medium to long term in consultation with the Discipline Director, BA stakeholders, Workforce Planners and Service Delivery Managers. Ensure that direct and indirect hour targets are achieved, working in close collaboration with the Discipline Director and Workforce Planner. Work with Discipline Director and Service Delivery Managers to define and implement standardization and automation initiatives within the team. · Ensure a strong focus on career development, driving a culture of best practice around GPS and empowerment of staff to own the development of their careers. Foster a strong culture of health and safety awareness and practices within the teams, setting a leadership example and holding senior staff to account. Manage staff engagement levels by drawing insights from tools such as YourVoice, identifying engagement drivers and developing and implementing action plans to ensure a well engaged team. Manage team shape and size within the discipline to ensure that adequate levels of seniority for leadership, task management and technical roles are in place to support current and future delivery requirements. Collaborate with other BA Managers and GBA Manager within Disciplines to ensure that capabilities are maximized across teams and projects. Drive the development of training and Qualifications & Experience: The candidate should have a bachelor's or master’s degree in Engineering and experience in leading and growing a significant business function within a multinational engineering or professional services firm. They should have a proven project management background aligned with rail or highway-related projects in mid-size or major schemes in the UK/Europe/Australia, along with experience in consultancy. · Preference will be given to candidates with PMP/ APM or equivalent certification and those with knowledge and proven experience working with the NEC form of contract. For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas: Leading transformation: Ability to bring people on a journey to the unknown, creating a sense of stability and security in uncertain times, avoiding change fatigue. Managing change: Managing change at a management level, growing a start-up, or leading change into other market/services or products, operating with new business models, turning around underperforming businesses, programs or teams and driving standardization and automation. Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies. 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. Be curious: Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation. · Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset. · Are digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative. Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging and purposeful. Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation-led and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation. Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict. Drive success. Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery. Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others. Build trust through authenticity, demonstrating integrity and courage regarding own convictions. Continue your career journey as an Arcadian. 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.

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Manager is accountable for managing all projects within the business area, ensuring delivery aligns with budgetary and compliance controls. They will also drive project delivery excellence and foster a culture of health and safety within the team.