Commercial Director

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

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Commercial Director, with a proven track record in service delivery excellence, team management and client account management, to lead and grow the cost and commercial team in the delivery of Residential and Commercial Development projects across South West England and South Wales; driving and enhancing our commercial offering, service performance and client experience. The role requires experience of delivering and leading multi-million-pound projects or programmes, leading our cost management teams in region, skilled client account management and creating new business opportunities

Working within our Places business area, the role is a key role in our Property Sector leadership group and requires an individual that shares our passion for improving the quality of life; an individual that prides themself for the part they play in transforming the world around them and understand the importance of teamwork, whilst inspiring the teams and individual around them.

Role accountabilities:

• Possess the skills and experience to actively lead and drive the internal team and manage resources on technically complex projects / programmes of work typically ranging between £1m and £100m
• Lead, motivate and manage a team of technical specialists, setting objectives, reviewing performance and developing skills to ensure the provision of an efficient cost and commercial management service to projects
• Manage the financial performance of cost and commercial management projects across their life cycle, taking responsibility for costs, schedules and efficiency to ensure profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved
• Lead and manage the commercial aspects of projects across the organisation, supporting project management teams to deliver work within budget and to required contract specifications
• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure organisational policies and codes of conduct are followed
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
• Analyse and review complex information from a range of sources and oversee recommendations provided by other specialists, in order to improve the long-term performance of the cost management service
• Seek to continuously develop processes and lead the implementation of new cost and commercial management system improvements, working to improve services, drive innovation and enhance project delivery
• Manage the overall business relationship with key customers and customer groups in order to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and drive customer satisfaction
• Act as a lead technical expert, providing strategic advice to other senior managers on cost and commercial management matters, in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
• Manage and build strong working relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction, develop and extend the cost management service and create new business opportunities

Qualifications & Experience:

• Chartered professional with relevant cost and commercial management experience including delivery of large projects ranging from £10m to £100m+ across an entire project life cycle
• Proven ability to manage, motivate and lead large teams, and demonstrable leadership ability
• Experience of building and utilising client relationships at executive level, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to liaise / share knowledge with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships.
• Commercial acumen and organisational understanding.
• Knowledge of the South West market particularly Exeter and Bristol.
• Knowledge of the South Wales / Cardiff market would be an added advantage.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status
• CSCS card holder

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. 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.