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About the Role
We are seeking Principal Consultants to join our dynamic Business Advisory team, enabling clients to successfully implement bold solutions and solve pressing problems in a world of disruption. Our Capital Programmes Advisory capability supports major UK organizations in managing complex capital investment programs, guiding clients in making better investment decisions, establishing governance, strengthening delivery capabilities, and realizing value.
Responsibilities
- Lead workstreams or small-to-medium sized commissions, ensuring high-quality delivery and client satisfaction.
- Provide strategic advice and challenge to clients on complex capital programme issues.
- Develop innovative and evidence-based solutions to address client challenges.
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and act as a key day-to-day client contact.
- Lead workshops, interviews and stakeholder engagement activities with executive-level audiences.
- Oversee diagnostic assessments, reviews and analytical workstreams, providing direction to project teams.
- Translate complex technical, commercial and strategic issues into clear and compelling client recommendations.
- Manage and coach Consultants and Senior Consultants, supporting their professional development and performance.
- Contribute to the development of new tools, methodologies and propositions within the Capital Programmes Advisory capability.
- Identify opportunities for follow-on work and support account growth within existing client relationships.
- Lead or support the preparation of proposals, bids and client presentations, contributing to sales and business development activities.
- Take responsibility for commercial performance across workstreams, including resource management, budget monitoring and risk management.
- Promote collaboration across Business Advisory and the wider Arcadis business to deliver integrated client solutions.
Requirements
- Proven track record in advising clients or leading on complex capital programmes and major transformations.
- Strong leadership capability.
- Commercial awareness.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to develop trusted relationships with senior client decision-makers.
- Passion for helping clients solve complex challenges.
- Motivation to contribute to the growth of our Capital Programmes Advisory capability.
- Strong intellect.
- Ability to articulate complex ideas persuasively.
- Talent for showing clients that we have the right solutions to their most pressing issues.
- Experience gained from a Management Consulting environment (Big-4, Strategy or Boutique firm).
- Experience transitioning into management consultancy from an engineering, cost & commercial consultancy, or programme/project management background.
- Experience from a non-consulting career path or client-side with skills and knowledge to pivot into consultancy.
Skills
- Capital programme governance and assurance
- Programme mobilisation and setup
- Operating model design
- Delivery strategy and delivery vehicle assessment
- PMO, controls and reporting framework design
- Independent assurance and gateway reviews
- Programme recovery, turnaround and optimisation
- Portfolio prioritisation and investment decision-making
- Business case development (SOBC, OBC and FBC)
- Benefits management and value realisation
- Strategic risk and assurance management
- Financial modelling, investment appraisal and scenario modelling
- Transport sector experience
- Water & Energy sector experience
- Industrial Manufacturing & Technology sector experience
- Real Estate & Development sector experience
Experience Level
- Principal Consultant
About the Company
- Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
- We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
- We believe everyone's contribution matters.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.