Associate Director Asset Management

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This opportunity sits within the Asset Management Transformation team, part of our growing and dynamic UK Business Advisory (Management Consulting) practice. The team is dedicated to enhancing the organisational maturity of our clients for making better decisions to maximise value from their built or natural assets over the whole lifecycle, underpinned by adoption of best practices and innovation, better strategies and planning, upskilling work forces and data‑led decision‑making that optimises outcomes for customers, stakeholders, and society in a sustainable way.

Our Asset Management Transformation (Business Advisory) team provides advice and delivers change programmes and initiatives for clients across a wide range of infrastructure, asset types and sectors, including but not limited to Rail, Roads, Water, and Electricity Utilities, Defence, Environment, Central and Local Government.

Our experts in asset management and business transformation collaborate closely with specialists across Arcadis in technical, digital, commercial and other domains, providing both best practice market insights and practical implementation advice.

• Transformation strategy and capability development across business, data and digital
• Strategic asset management planning and decision support through the whole lifecycle
• Benefits‑led decision making for asset or capability improvement projects and portfolios
• Operational process and performance improvement
• Regulatory, risk and resilience advisory

• Leading significant (and multiple) client projects and accounts from sales / bidding to solution design and activity planning, successful delivery and knowledge capture. This sales and commission leadership will include management of multi‑disciplinary teams and achieving successful commercial outcomes for Arcadis.
• Diagnosing and tackling complex asset‑centric related issues, across large‑scale consulting engagements, designing and implementing solutions that demonstrate benefits and value delivered.
• Leading teams that utilise insights and analysis of markets, trends, risks and opportunities to inform potential solutions, recommendations and outcomes to clients and stakeholders.
• Leads business development and sales for our value propositions, including leadership of relevant bids, to significantly contribute to the growth of our Asset Management Transformation capability and the wider Business Advisory business unit.
• Managing the delivery of exceptional client experience from project mobilisation through to handover, focusing on understanding client’s needs, building lasting relationships and delivering on our promises.
• Being a subject‑matter expert and thought leader within one or more of our value propositions, taking ownership for the continuous development of our offerings.
• Active member of the UK&I and Global asset management community of practice, supporting continuous development of our solutions and delivery approach.
• Provide line management, coaching and mentoring to future talent within our consultant community to support their development.
• Support and own aspects of our team’s strategy and capability building activities.
• Support the ‘on‑project’ development of team members’ skills to help them achieve their career goals.

• Demonstrable track record of leading asset management or management consulting projects in a relevant sector (Infrastructure, Transportation, Water, Energy, Utilities, Defence, etc.).
• Thought leader in one or more phases of the asset lifecycle (strategy and planning, design and build, operations and maintenance, or decommissioning), and in particular to one or more of the following services:
  • Asset management operating model design & transformation programmes
  • ISO 55001 aligned asset management system development
  • Regulatory business planning and adaptive planning
  • Asset portfolio investment prioritisation & optimisation
  • Benefit‑led prioritisation of asset management improvements, innovation and business change programmes
  • Operational efficiency improvement
  • Asset information…