GEC Service Director Design and Engineering (Resilience)

Qualifications & Experience:

The candidate should have:

• Significant professional experience in the service (15 years or more), ideally with experience globally and working to different standards and practices
• Excellent influencing and collaboration skills at a strategic level as well as leadership at a detailed service level
• Strategic mindset, collating information across the business and developing opportunities to benefit the service, Arcadis and our clients
• Ability to coach and bring out the best in your teams
• Strong interpersonal skills and technical expertise to draw a following and build and maintain relationships across the business
• Driven to achieve outcomes taking ownership of challenges and working to resolve in a collaborative way
• Ability to see from others perspectives
• Able to lead service expert groups where required and guide on content and topics to support service development within GEC and to a growing extent, globally

For this role you are also expected to take an active role in mentoring and sponsoring people in your service and to support communities and social activities that show good leadership and support Arcadis sustainability objectives

Be curious:

• Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others; bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation.
• Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset.
• Are digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative.
• Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging and purposeful.
• Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation.
• Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict.

Drive success:

• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery.
• Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others.
• Internalize organizational goals, making them one's own personal stretch goals.
• Are outcomes focused and tackle challenges head-on.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to sustainable solutions.
• Actively shape the future of the organization.

Ignite passion:

• Personally role model own commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core.
• Apply an adaptive style to engagement that is culturally sensitive and appeals to the personal needs of others.
• Bring clarity and manage anxiety in others, through clear communication and inspiring storytelling.
• Integrate their work, helping others make the connection between their work and the bigger picture.
• Maintain personal resilience and rebound from setbacks and help others to do the same.

Main Working Contacts

• Global/GBA Service Director
• GEC S&A and Data Director
• Global Automation Director
• Service Transition Director
• Global Data and Information Management Director
• GEC Service Transition Director
• BA Service Leads/Directors
• GEC Quality Director / Country Managers
• GEC BIM / Design Automation Leads
• GEC Learning & Development Business Partner(s)
• Digital Intelligence Products Director