Sr. (Technology or Data Center) Program Manager
Application completed on Arcadis
About This Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design,
engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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.
Arcadis is in search of a Delivery Lead and assure delivery of a portfolio of
Data Center projects across North America, strengthening performance,
consistency and client confidence. This senior leadership role is critical to
mobilizing project teams, training, mentoring and developing cost, schedule and
program management professionals, and driving consistent high-quality outputs
from delivery teams. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the
data center market, coupled with the ability to engage with client stakeholders
to provide confidence in delivery outcomes and demonstrate effective leadership
of our delivery teams.
Role accountabilities:
* Lead North American portfolio delivery and provide visible executive
oversight.
* Assure delivery against client commitments, governance and Arcadis standards.
* Set regional priorities, accountabilities and consistent ways of working.
* Coach delivery leaders and build a high-performing, accountable culture.
* Own senior delivery engagement with Client stakeholders.
* Lead resolution of material client concerns and delivery escalations.
* Direct portfolio reviews, health checks and corrective actions.
* Champion quality, right-first-time delivery and continuous learning.
* Sponsor portfolio improvement and the North American programmatic delivery
model.
* Maintain executive oversight of risks, issues and dependencies.
* Use insight to anticipate risk, target intervention and lead recovery.
* Establish clear reporting across delivery, quality, commercial and resource
performance.
* Drive integrated resource, capacity and capability planning.
* Connect projects, locations and global expertise to improve consistency.
* Align talent deployment, mobilization and succession with portfolio
priorities.
Qualifications & Experience:
* Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity
Surveying, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
* Minimum 10 years experience in Senior leadership of programmes, portfolios or
multi-project delivery.
* 5 years of Data center, mission-critical or comparable capital-sector
experience preferred.
* Chartership or accreditation such as MRICS, MCIOB, PMP, PgMP or APM
desirable.
* Complex capital portfolio experience across dispersed teams.
* Credible executive client and stakeholder leadership.
* Proven governance, assurance and performance improvement.
* Strong project controls, risk, quality, commercial and resource expertise.
* Matrix leadership across multidisciplinary teams.
* Effective intervention in challenging delivery environments.
* Ability and willingness to travel across the United States to support
delivery teams.
* Proven commitment to health, safety, sustainability, and the efficient
delivery of large-scale technology infrastructure projects.
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.
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