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Climate Adaptation Solution Director

3 months ago

Halifax Regional Municipality, Canada Arcadis Full time

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36, 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 worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Climate Adaptation Solution Director to join our team in Canada. Climate Adaptation is an area in which Arcadis is recognized as an industry leader and represents a cornerstone of our business, we ensure that our communities continue to thrive in the face of climate uncertainty by providing full climate adaptation measures across the life cycle of any asset from risk mapping, vulnerability assessments, and community-based resilience plans to the design and engineering of flood defense systems and stormwater infrastructure. 

Our longstanding core disciplines include without limitation, Climate Risk & Mitigation/Adaptation Planning, Design and Engineering of integrated flood Resilience Solutions, Hydraulic Design and Construction, Dams and River Basins, Resilient Ports & Waterways, including berths, jetties, quay walls and break waters, providing integrated solutions, with a focus on safety, economic and environmental progress. 

This is a senior, market-facing leadership position within our Resilience Business Area and partners with Sector, Account, and Sales Leaders to realize profitable growth in Climate Adaptation in Canada. 

Role accountabilities:

The Climate Adaptation Solution Director reports to the Canada Sales Director with dotted-line collaboration to the Climate Adaptation Global Solutions Director. 

Role accountabilities:

Work collaboratively with the entire client development team to execute on our Resilience Climate Adaptation go to market strategy, and with our account and project teams to deliver an unparalleled Client Experience, with sound service delivery where we have made every project count. Collaborate with the Canadian leadership team to 1) develop and maintain a deep understanding of our clients needs in the areas of emerging issues, evolving market trends, and regulatory drivers, 2) assess position of our competitors and 3) develop industry-leading insights to drive development of differentiated, value-added technical solution strategies in alignment with our global strategy. Evolve and grow our focus on Climate Adaptation by effectively supporting our technical and client teams, ensuring in-depth understanding of the market needs, capturing data, insights and generating discussion that drive the client experience. Integral to this role is the capability to bring together relevant stakeholders and be able to communicate Arcadis position externally. Collaborate across sectors and accounts to drive profitable business growth, differentiated technological and business model developments for strategic pursuits, share best-practices across regions, develop propositions across all our key client markets integrating digital transformation + innovation and data analytics knowledge, thereby building our market position, driving campaigns, shaping thought leadership, and building up a credible portfolio of work that can generate sales with our selected top clients, that derives increased revenue for the business. He/she will also foster collaboration across our global presence in Climate Adaptation through coordination with leaders across other geographies and exchanging innovative approaches and compelling value propositions to accelerate growth and enhance our position in the respective market. Leverage a deep understanding of the Climate Adaptation and digital solutions to support Intelligence, our digital products business, and other ecosystem partners. He/she will also support the Global Climate Adaptation Solution Director stimulating collaboration between global business areas to build global capability and teams by organizing cross-regional meetings and improve use of our Global Excellence Centers. Support teams on strategic pursuits that drive value to our business. The Solution Leader is recognized in the market and can be client-facing during the pursuit, proposal, and presentation phase of capturing an opportunity. Where applicable, collaborates with Global Solution Director to bring global knowledge and share innovative views on technological and business model developments that enhance our brand and reputation to secure strategic pursuits.

Success and Role accountabilities:

Success will result in sustained and profitable growth, diversification of our service offering, and expansion into new markets, services, and geographies where Arcadis is positively differentiated. Coordinate visibility of Arcadis at and participates in industry conferences and meetings. Actively participates on social media promoting Arcadis people, projects, campaigns, thought leadership and global strategy Actively participates and contributes to the Global Solution team, supporting the exchange of industry-leading insights and expertise to other countries. Recruits, develops, and manages employees, coaching and mentoring them to achieve high performance, growth, and personal development.

Qualifications & Experience:

10+ years of industry leading consulting experience Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Planning. Masters Degree a plus Recognized as a collaborative leader internally/externally Have a deep understanding of Arcadis leading technical solutions and the ability to develop and deliver compelling future-focused offerings to our clients Ability to lead and motivate by influence Strong business acumen, understanding of P&L and fundamentals of running a successful professional services business