Job Description
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:
Arcadis’ Resilience Water team in Buffalo, NY is seeking a Client Portfolio Manager to lead and direct the development of water, wastewater, and stormwater projects. You will report to the Area Leader for Western NY and actively participate as a key member of the Area Leadership Team. This position will engage with our established, well-respected team to execute and expand our healthy project backlog and lead our strategy for growth across the region.
Role accountabilities:
As a Client Portfolio Manager, you will utilize your project management expertise and technical knowledge of municipal water, wastewater and stormwater planning, engineering design, and construction, along with your reputation for excellence in client management and business development to successfully deliver projects and meet client expectations. You will contribute to the strategic growth, planning and support of various key market initiatives.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Managing local staff and assisting with career development, hiring, staff retention, and workload planning
- Promoting diversity and inclusion within project teams
- Working directly with clients to determine needs, deliver solutions and lead the growth of client relationships.
- Leading operational teams to achieve program objectives and continuously improve results
- Translating project/program objectives into plans, budgets, costs, and schedules, managing finances across the project life cycle to meet the profit and budgetary targets of the region
- Leading the implementation of the regional portfolio, managing multi-disciplinary teams, and working on mid- to long-term timescales, to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations
- Providing technical expertise on multi-disciplined projects as a design leader, QA/QC reviewer or technical advisor.
- Delivering key financial performance including growth in annual bookings and net revenue, target multiplier, and Days Revenue Outstanding (DRO).
- Leading/supporting teams in the marketing and proposal phases of projects including preparation of winning proposals and successful presentations, as well as developing scopes of work and budgets for various water, wastewater, and stormwater projects.
- Traveling, as needed, for project site visits, client meetings, safety audits, general planning purposes or to oversee construction activities, depending on project staffing needs
Qualifications & Experience:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related field of study
- 15 years of experience managing client accounts in the Water/Wastewater Market Sector
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional Engineer (PE) license
- 20 years of experience managing client accounts in the Water/Wastewater Market Sector
- Experience managing client accounts, assisting in client development, and leading project pursuits and pursuit teams, in a collaborative fashion, on a variety of opportunities.
- Project leadership and management experience including demonstrated experience leading and managing multi-disciplined, water, wastewater, and/or stormwater projects. Experience in growing and developing teams and mentoring staff.
- Active participation in regional and/or national professional association(s), industry activities, and conferences.
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.
Join Arcadis. Create a 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. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full-time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program, and optional benefits including well-being benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start date, and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $126,750 – $242,938.
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