Business Area Director

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Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is looking for a Business Area (BA) Director in Europe. our ideal candidate may be located anywhere within Netherlands, Germany or Belgium. 

The purpose of this role is to grow the respective Business Area (BA) presence in Europe, aligning with the overall Arcadis strategy and financial targets.

Role accountabilities:

As a BA Director your role accountabilities will include:

Implement the BA strategy:

• Influence Global strategy and implement it within local context through prioritizing and outside in view of client needs and ambitions, as well as a people first culture building on our passion for improving quality of life. 
• Embed cross Global Business Area (GBA) strategic themes in the organization to mobilize intelligence and collaboration in consideration of key priorities , e.g., brand, digital and enterprise asset management, sustainability, standardization, and automation.
• Collaborate with your global network to enable external sector benchmarking and advisory related client engagements, as well as focus, scale and efficiency.

Delivery of financial and target performance:

• Own operational and financial performance in line with overall Arcadis strategy and targets of the BA on global and EU level.
• Continuously improve BA’s competitive position through strong client focus, investments in capabilities (e.g., technical expertise, commercial skills), drive in cost competitiveness, and talent management

Represent Arcadis to top BA accounts in country:

• Represent the business area in the local markets and the key clients associated to the business area
• Leverage global network of expertise to strengthen GBA cross-selling and drive “fit-for-purpose” growth to meet market and client demands (e.g., holistic view to identify areas of client focus to double-down).
• Grow and expand strategic Growth area’s like Energy, Power, Water and Climate  to make our GBA fit for future and leverage market trends
• Develop integrated propositions across GBA’s for clients.

Role Model the Arcadis Way:

• Stimulate cooperation across GBA’s, and utilization of the global network.
• Act as a visible steward of health and safety, sustainability, and inclusivity.
• Statutory directorship for the country with other BA Directors and or Sales Directors including e.g., in control statement.
• Together with other BA Directors, improve health of the organization and corporate responsibility (e.g., diversity, inclusivity, equality, employee satisfaction, retention).
• Together with the BA Sales Director, prioritize key client to develop account and growth plans.
• Together with the BA Finance and BA Operations:
  • Identify and manage financial and operational risks
  • Monitor and report the financial performance

Decision rights:

• European BA priorities (e.g., project delivery – International collaboration & work-sharing between countries – Global Excellence Centres collaboration).
• European BA revenue (approx. 250 mln revenue), costs, profitability (>15% EBITA), growth, ensuring profit and cash to plan / target.
• Country statutory responsibilities.
• Growth priorities (e.g., key sector and key accounts plans).

Vetoes: 

No go decisions on pursuits. Mis-aligned investments and priorities to growth and profit targets. 

Qualifications & Experience:

The candidate should have a bachelor or master's degree and at least 10+ years of experience leading and growing a significant business function within a multinational engineering or professional services firm. The candidate will be able to demonstrate significant client engagement, leadership capability and the ability to inspire multi-disciplinary teams around a common purpose.

Qualifications in financial/business management, client experience, innovation and leadership are highly desirable, as is professional membership of relevant business institutions, industry boards or sector focused organizations.

Ideally, the candidate will have built a strong market reputation and personal brand through thought leadership, market-facing activities and representing Arcadis at external opportunities, ideally in the Business Area. An existing track-record in one of the Resilience market sectors is key (e.g. Water – Energy)

For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas: 
•    Driving innovation: Involved in generating and driving innovation, engaging with clients on new business models and revenue streams, working with alliances and ecosystems to deliver the best outcomes. 
•    General management: Lead a significant P&L (>150 mln revenue) and operations ((>1000 FTE), developing strategy and successfully driving accountability through KPIs and behavior.
•    People management: Creating high performing teams, communicating vision and purpose, engaging others and ensuring aligned objectives. Caring for employee wellbeing and recognizing and celebrating success. 

Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model we seek leaders with a strong fit to our leadership success profile, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability. Successful leaders at Arcadis will possess strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.

Be curious: 
•    Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others; bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation.
•    Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset.
•    Are digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative. 
•    Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging and purposeful.
•    Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation.
•    Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict. 

Drive success:
•    Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery. 
•    Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others. 
•    Internalize organizational goals, making them one’s own personal stretch goals. 
•    Are outcomes focused and tackle challenges head-on.
•    Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to sustainable solutions. 
•    Actively shape the future of the organization. 

Ignite passion:  
•    Personally role model own commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core.
•    Apply an adaptive style to engagement that is culturally sensitive and appeals to the personal needs of others.
•    Bring clarity and manage anxiety in others, through clear communication and inspiring storytelling. 
•    Integrate their work, helping others make the connection between their work and the bigger picture. 
•    Maintain personal resilience and rebound from setbacks and help others to do the same. 
•    Build trust through authenticity, demonstrating integrity and courage regarding own convictions

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

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 do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, 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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