Management Consultant - Asset Management

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At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role Description-
Our Business Transformation team is recognised in the market for the quality of its people. Beyond expertise in one or more of our core consulting disciplines, you will need a strong intellect, the ability to articulate complex ideas persuasively, and a talent for showing clients that we have the right solutions to their most pressing issues.

We are dedicated to enhancing clients’ performance through the development and delivery of asset strategy and plans, which align to corporate objectives, mitigate risk and are underpinned with robust information and technology solutions combined with behavioural change across a variety of sectors delivering service excellence within the asset management community of practice.

Our team delivers transformation programmes for clients across a wide range of sectors. The programmes vary widely – covering operations and maintenance, strategy and planning, risk and resilience – but all have one thing in common. They are invariably connected with the impact of built assets on the performance of the organisation.

The team’s offer to the market is compelling – Arcadis present digitally enabled asset management services in combination with deep expertise in built assets. This distinctive position creates unique career opportunities. Consultants who want to develop a specialism in built assets can do this with the leading firm in the market; asset management professionals find a setting where they can address the broader business impacts of built asset projects beyond pure construction.

All office locations will be considered as long as you are willing to travel and stay away mid-week as required based on client and project needs.

Role Accountabilities-

• Independent management of client projects or workstreams through the project lifecycle, from sales and deal closure to solution design and activity planning, successful delivery and knowledge capture
• Use evidence-based analysis to identify root-cause problems, designing and implementing solutions that can demonstrate benefits and value delivered
• Continuous development of our Asset Management services and sector-specific offerings (such as our strategic planning, operations & maintenance or resilience propositions, for example)
• Accountability for people and team development through line management of other team members
• Support the ‘on-project’ development of team members’ skills and capabilities towards their career goals
• Identify and communicate sell-on opportunities
• Involvement in internal strategy, team and capability building activities
  

Additionally, you can expect to work on a variety programmes that cover the following value propositions offered in our Asset Management service line-

• whole life cost optimisation, improving investment decision-making through asset base prioritisation
• operational efficiency, reducing organisational spend by identifying operational efficiencies
• performance improvement, identifying and delivering value added transformation of processes and systems
• risk and resiliency, mitigating business risk through assurance and planning activities
• asset information and data, realising the full value of an asset base through information system implementation
• asset management transformation, increasing client maturity by embedding asset management capability and industry best practice
  

Qualifications & Experience-
Whether you come from a built asset or consulting background, you will join an entrepreneurial team that is growing fast. Ideally you will be a proven professional in the built asset environment coming from a large asset rich infrastructure organisation, with an understanding of what it takes to grow business and build relationships.

As well as bringing deep technical experience to the role, you will be a problem solving and output thinking individual who understands client’s business need and is able to deliver solutions.

You will also have the following-

• experience / content knowledge and demonstrable track record of delivering business change implementation projects in the Utilities or Transportation sector
• content knowledge and practice of asset strategy & risk management
• construction knowledge, with the ability to be able to apply information management solutions in the context of complex construction projects
• operational experience, with strong appreciation of the value created in through the O&M phase of the asset lifecycle
• leadership of project work streams including management of consultants, analysts and client team members or comparable in an industry role
  

Why Become an Arcadian?
Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

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.

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