AddressArcadis 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:
As part of our Global Accelerating a Positive Planet Future strategy and our Places Australia Strategic Business Plan, we are evolving our Places Australia structure seeking a Business Area (BA) Operations and Global Excellence Centre (GEC) Director. This is pivotal to the Places business as you will ensure consistency in approach and operations as you will meet the Places Australia’s Business Areas performance targets and strategic objectives.
Reporting directly to the Places Australia Business Area Director and working closely with the Places Global Business Area (GBA) Operations Director, you will drive operational excellence into our projects and services, and champion the growth, use and performance efficiency of our GEC capability into the Australian business, in line with BA targets and strategy.
Role accountabilities:
As the BA Operations & GEC Director for Places Australia, you'll showcase your leadership skills by guiding your team effectively, motivating the business towards excellence and influencing broadly where improvements, efficiencies or change needs to be made. Your strong commercial acumen and deep industry knowledge of major building and civil engineering projects will inspire high-performance teams committed to meeting strategic objectives and taking pride in their work.
Your role will include:
- As the BA Director’s 2IC, enhances operational performance and implements operational and project performance related changes within the BA to support our business plan;
- In close partnership with our Finance BP and Business Leaders, support Project Managers and Project Directors in proactively managing our project performance to create best-in-class project delivery and project outcomes;
- Actively create a high performance environment for adoption of service best practice including standardisation, automation and digital tools for project delivery and reporting;
- Collaborate closely with peers in Finance, Sales, and Operations to ensure a systematic and collaborative approach to MEPC+ (Margin Enhancement, Pricing, and Contracting) to achieving project excellence;
- Coach and upskill our Project Manager and Project Director cohort capability;
- Oversight and provide leadership over our projects on the Risk and Opportunity (R&O) register;
- Actively work with BA leadership and all BA units to improve GEC collaboration and contribution with particular focus on units with low level participation as a change agent;
- Drive delivery of sustainability targets and GEC implementation plan to exceed targets within BA units leaders and Project Managers, supporting with practical solutions to issues and removing barriers; and
- Actively track BA GEC KPIs against targets, including maximising GEC inclusion in pursuits and ensuring mandated GEC participation in projects is exceeded.
Qualifications & Experience:
You will come to us with:
- Preferred relevant and recognised bachelor or master’s tertiary degree. Qualifications in project and business management and leadership highly desirable.
- Professional membership of relevant business/industry institutions;
- At least 10+ years demonstrated experience in operational or business leadership role ideally having successfully established or operationalised new work methods, agile systems or processes to improve efficiency and performance;
- Demonstrated experience as a commercial manager or project director on large complex projects (e.g. alliances, D&Cs, JV type projects);
- Strong commercial and contractual experience in project delivery; and
- Demonstrated experience in driving continuous improvement, innovation and operational efficiency.
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.
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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