Associate Project Manager - Commercial

Arcadis 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 an Associate Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of large, complex or higher‑risk projects, or a portfolio of projects, operating with a high level of accountability while remaining actively involved in delivery. You will provide senior leadership to project teams, manage significant commercial and delivery risks, and work closely with client stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.

Alongside project responsibilities, you will support the development of people and contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices within Arcadis.

Key Accountabilities

Project & Programme Leadership

• Lead the delivery of large or complex projects, or a coordinated portfolio of projects, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, programme, cost, quality and safety requirements.
• Establish appropriate governance, controls and reporting arrangements proportionate to project scale and risk.
• Manage delivery, commercial and stakeholder risks, escalating issues where necessary and ensuring appropriate mitigation is in place.

Commercial & Financial Management

• Hold accountability for project or portfolio‑level financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, cashflow and risk exposure.
• Lead complex commercial discussions and negotiations within agreed authority levels.
• Support optimisation of financial performance through effective planning, resourcing and risk management.

Client & Stakeholder Leadership

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior client stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted delivery lead for clients on complex or sensitive project matters.
• Support work‑winning activities through input to bids, proposals and delivery strategies.

Leadership & People Development

• Provide leadership, mentoring and development support to Project Managers and Senior Project Managers.
• Contribute to succession planning and capability development within the Project & Programme Management community.
• Promote a positive, inclusive and high‑performance culture across project teams.

Risk, Safety, Health & Sustainability

• Champion high standards of safety, health, environmental and wellbeing performance.
• Ensure sustainable and responsible practices are embedded into project delivery.

Digital & Continuous Improvement

• Encourage effective use of digital tools, data and delivery systems across projects.
• Lead or support improvement initiatives that enhance delivery efficiency, quality and client value.

Qualifications & Experience

• Extensive experience managing large or complex infrastructure or built‑environment projects in a consultancy or comparable environment.
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness with experience managing significant delivery risk.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the development of people and teams.
• Chartered professional status with a recognised institution advantageous.

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.

Role Description

As an Associate Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of large, complex or higher‑risk projects, or a portfolio of projects, operating with a high level of accountability while remaining actively involved in delivery. You will provide senior leadership to project teams, manage significant commercial and delivery risks, and work closely with client stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes.

Alongside project responsibilities, you will support the development of people and contribute to the continuous improvement of project management practices within Arcadis.

Key Accountabilities

Project & Programme Leadership

• Lead the delivery of large or complex projects, or a coordinated portfolio of projects, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, programme, cost, quality and safety requirements.
• Establish appropriate governance, controls and reporting arrangements proportionate to project scale and risk.
• Manage delivery, commercial and stakeholder risks, escalating issues where necessary and ensuring appropriate mitigation is in place.

Commercial & Financial Management

• Hold accountability for project or portfolio‑level financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, cashflow and risk exposure.
• Lead complex commercial discussions and negotiations within agreed authority levels.
• Support optimisation of financial performance through effective planning, resourcing and risk management.

Client & Stakeholder Leadership

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior client stakeholders.

Act as a trusted delivery lead for clients on complex or sensitive project matters.

Support work‑winning activities through input to bids, proposals and delivery strategies.

Leadership & People Development

• Provide leadership, mentoring and development support to Project Managers and Senior Project Managers.
• Contribute to succession planning and capability development within the Project & Programme Management community.
• Promote a positive, inclusive and high‑performance culture across project teams.

Risk, Safety, Health & Sustainability

• Champion high standards of safety, health, environmental and wellbeing performance.
• Ensure sustainable and responsible practices are embedded into project delivery.

Digital & Continuous Improvement

• Encourage effective use of digital tools, data and delivery systems across projects.
• Lead or support improvement initiatives that enhance delivery efficiency, quality and client value.

Qualifications & Experience

• Extensive experience managing large or complex infrastructure or built‑environment projects in a consultancy or comparable environment.
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and lead multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong commercial and contractual awareness with experience managing significant delivery risk.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the development of people and teams.
• Chartered professional status with a recognised institution advantageous.

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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