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 an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead the successful delivery of our medium to large enterprise- level digital solutions in Canada. Managing a diverse customer, supplier and colleague stakeholder community, you will have a relentless commitment to delivery and demonstrable commercial awareness.
As the primary liaison between the client and delivery team, you will lead from the front fostering customer relationships and supporting the customer through the implementation of Arcadis Enterprise Asset Management and Analytics solutions. Managing the delivery teams, you will strive to deliver a quality solution within the agreed timescale and budget.
We use digital intelligence and deep human knowledge to create products and solutions in a holistic way. We empower our clients with agile, data-driven insights and technologies that complement our sustainable design, engineering and advisory expertise. We can confidently work in partnership to address global challenges from climate change and rapid urbanization, to increasing digitalization, socio-economic disruption and societal expectations head-on, all with the common goal of improving quality of life.
Role accountabilities:
You will have the confidence and experience to communicate with stakeholders at a senior level within the Arcadis and customer organisations.
It is fundamental that you can utilize your project management experience in delivering multi-million-dollar projects to demonstrate control of your delivery team in delivering all aspects of the project in accordance with our contractual obligations including:
- Budget management
- Milestone delivery to agreed schedule.
- Resource management
- Contract administration
- Change Management / negotiation
- Reporting
- Quality Control
- Project Controls
- Supplier management
- Stakeholder Management
In addition to this, you are responsible for the coordination and supervision of your project team, maintaining project team accountability for tasks and the day-to-day delivery of the project. You also have a key role to play in the development of others, both within your project team and the wider business.
You will have or will develop an in-depth knowledge of the Arcadis project management processes, and as part of this senior role, your contribution may include supporting tender responses and as required, contribute to supporting colleagues who are focussed on account growth and new sales.
By facilitating growth and promoting excellence within Arcadis you will lead by example and be an exemplar of our processes and positive cultural values.
The role-holder will be accountable to our Director of Program Management and have the ability to manage multiple technical and functional internal delivery teams. Each team has a workstream lead who reports into the Program Manager. Teams are a mixture of Arcadis employees and sub-contractors and are based in the US, Canada, UK, India and Serbia
Qualifications & Experience:
The ideal candidate will have significant experience of delivering large, complex, multi-year projects. A history in delivering large digital enterprise technology solutions into asset intensive organizations is preferable but not essential.
Excellent risk and issue management, and pro-active engagement with key stakeholders to mitigate those risks and issues where necessary, is a core part of the role, and the successful candidate will have an approach to project risk management that is informed by both best-practise and significant experience.
Our successful candidate will embrace our culture of health, safety and wellbeing, and will benefit from being part of a fast-growing global business, one which is at the forefront of Improving the Quality of Life.
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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
The salary range for this position is 95,900 RANGE 178,100. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.