Project Director - D&B

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 are seeking a high-calibre Senior Project Director to join our UK Highways and Transportation business unit, part of a global engineering consultancy renowned for delivering transformative infrastructure projects. This technical leadership role is pivotal in delivering some of the most complex and high-value (£500m+) multi-disciplinary highways projects in the UK and internationally.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership: Provide clear and decisive leadership across a portfolio of projects, setting the vision, direction, and standards for technical delivery, commercial success, and client satisfaction. Inspire teams to achieve excellence and deliver results.

Portfolio Management: Take full responsibility for directing and successfully delivering a portfolio of infrastructure projects, ensuring consistency in execution, financial performance, and alignment with client expectations.

Team Leadership: Manage and motivate multidisciplinary teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and a shared commitment to delivering complex projects. Lead by example, creating a culture of high performance.

Client Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and ensuring their needs and expectations are met or exceeded.

Solution Delivery: Oversee teams, both locally and internationally, to deliver integrated, commercially viable solutions. Ensure all teams work cohesively and efficiently to meet project goals.

Governance and Oversight: Work closely with Project Managers to ensure robust project governance, including scope, budgets, schedules, risks, and quality management. Take ultimate accountability for project outcomes.

Business Growth: Actively contribute to the growth of the business by identifying new opportunities, expanding client relationships, and mentoring emerging leaders within the team.

Requirements

Leadership Expertise: Proven ability to lead and inspire teams across multiple projects or a portfolio, with a focus on clear communication, collaboration, and accountability. Demonstrated success in driving high-performing teams in challenging environments.

Portfolio Management: Significant experience managing and delivering a portfolio of large and complex infrastructure or highway projects, ideally within a design and build context.

Team Management: Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary teams, including remote or offshore delivery partners, with a focus on creating a cohesive and motivated team environment.

Client-Focused Leadership: Strong ability to build trust and rapport with clients, navigate complex stakeholder environments, and lead client engagements with a commercial mindset.

Technical and Commercial Expertise: Deep understanding of project governance, risk management, contracts (NEC/JCT), and financial performance, ensuring sound decision-making.

Education and Accreditation: Relevant degree (e.g., Civil Engineering) and professional accreditation (e.g., MIHT, ICE, or similar).

Global Experience: Experience working on international highway/infrastructure projects and within global consultancy or contractor environments, with an ability to lead teams across different cultural and geographic contexts.

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.

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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.