Associate Director Asset Management

Arcadis; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy is seeking an Associate Director for Asset Management in Cambridge. This role involves leading significant client projects, managing teams, and driving business development in the consulting environment. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in asset management, proven experience in delivering client solutions and excellent communication skills. This is a full-time position with opportunities to impact sustainability efforts.

Benefits

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Opportunities for career growth

Qualifications

• Proven experience in asset management or consulting.
• Experience in infrastructure, energy, and utilities sectors.
• Ability to lead consulting projects and manage teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead client projects from conception to delivery.
• Diagnose complex asset-centric issues for clients.
• Manage business development activities in asset management.

Skills

Leading asset management projects

Business development in consulting

Thought leadership in asset lifecycle

Exceptional communication skills

Team leadership and collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Overview

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are a global team of 36,000+ people in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Role description

This opportunity sits within the Asset Management Transformation team, part of our UK Business Advisory (Management Consulting) practice. The team focuses on enhancing the organisational maturity of clients to maximise value from their built or natural assets over the full lifecycle, supported by best practices, innovation, planning, upskilling, and data-led decision‑making that optimises outcomes for customers, stakeholders and society in a sustainable way. Our Asset Management Transformation team collaborates across Arcadis in technical, digital, commercial and other domains to deliver advisory services across infrastructure and asset types across sectors.

Responsibilities

• Leading significant client projects and accounts from sales/bidding to solution design, activity planning, delivery, and knowledge capture; including management of multi-disciplinary teams and achieving commercial outcomes for Arcadis.
• Diagnosing and tackling complex asset-centric issues across large-scale engagements; designing and implementing solutions that demonstrate benefits and value delivered.
• Leading teams that use insights from markets, trends, risks and opportunities to inform solutions, recommendations and outcomes for clients and stakeholders.
• Leading business development and sales for value propositions, including leadership of relevant bids, to contribute to growth of the Asset Management Transformation capability and the wider Business Advisory unit.
• Managing the delivery of exceptional client experience from project mobilisation through to handover, focusing on client needs, relationships and delivering on commitments.
• Becoming a subject matter expert and thought leader within one or more value propositions; ownership of continuous development of offerings.
• Active involvement in the UK&I and Global asset management community of practice, supporting continuous development of solutions and delivery approaches.
• Providing line management, coaching and mentoring to future talent within the consultant community.
• Supporting and owning aspects of the team’s strategy and capability-building activities.
• Supporting on-project development of team members’ skills to help them achieve career goals.

Qualifications & Experience

Whether you come from a built asset or consulting background, you will join an entrepreneurial and inclusive team that is growing fast. Ideally you will have proven experience in the natural or built asset environment, coming from an asset-owning/operating/management organisation or a consulting firm, with demonstrable experience of growing a business and building lasting client relationships.

You will also have the following key skills and expertise:

• Demonstrable track record of leading asset management or management consulting projects in relevant sectors (Infrastructure, Transportation, Water, Energy, Utilities, Defence, etc.).
• Being considered a thought leader in one or more asset lifecycle phases and in one or more services such as:
• Asset management operating model design & transformation programs
• 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 programs
• Operational efficiency improvement
• Asset information and data maturity improvement
• Significant experience in business development, bidding and securing sales in a consulting environment
• Strong understanding of typical management consulting project delivery from mobilisation to delivering client requirements
• Exceptional communication skills with experience of developing and maintaining relationships up to senior levels (ideally including Board/Exec level)
• Excellent team leadership, collaboration and commercial management skills
• Ability to understand and assess business problems and propose practical improvement recommendations

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline. Relevant industry qualifications to Business Advisory or Asset Management are preferable, and/or membership of a relevant industry body, or the desire to work towards one (e.g., MCA and/or IAM).

Additional information

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian. We are committed to empowering everyone to be their best and to a skills-based approach that recognises your unique experience and expertise. We aim to create meaningful, sustainable work that makes an impact for the planet and communities. Our commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging is central to our culture.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Professional Services

Location notes: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; additional posting times may reflect updates to the role.