Climate Adaptation Solutions Director

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

The Climate Adaptation Solutions Director will report to the Canada Sales Director with dotted-line collaboration to the Climate Adaptation Global Solutions Director. This role requires extensive expertise in technical solutions, business acumen, and leadership skills to drive Arcadis’ Climate Adaptation strategy.

The ideal candidate will develop and deliver innovative, future-focused offerings, while inspiring and motivating teams. They will ensure alignment with Arcadis’ global strategy, foster collaboration across regions, and grow the Climate Adaptation focus in Canada by addressing market needs, driving client engagement, and securing strategic opportunities.

The successful candidate will act as a visible representative of Arcadis in the marketplace, attending industry conferences, participating in thought leadership, and leveraging digital transformation, innovation, and data analytics to create compelling value propositions. They will collaborate with technical and client teams to deliver exceptional client experiences, drive profitable growth, and expand into new markets, services, and geographies.

Role Accountabilities

Key responsibilities for this role include:

• Strategic Leadership & Growth:
  
  

They will develop and execute Arcadis’ Resilience and Climate Adaptation market strategy in Canada, in collaboration with the leadership team, while leading strategic pursuits, driving campaigns, and shaping thought leadership to enhance Arcadis’ market position and securing profitable growth. They will collaborate across sectors, accounts, and regions to integrate, build and maintain relationships with high-value clients, ensuring their needs are met while achieving Arcadis’ objectives.

• Client & Market Focus:
  
  

They will understand client needs, emerging issues, regulatory drivers, and evolving market trends to develop industry-leading insights, assess the competitive landscape and create differentiated, value-added technical solution strategies. They will act as a client-facing leader during pursuits, proposals, and presentations, representing Arcadis’ expertise in Climate Adaptation.

• Team Development & Collaboration:
  
  

They will foster collaboration across Arcadis’ global presence in Climate Adaptation, exchanging innovative approaches, best practices, and insights, organize cross-regional meetings and build global capability. The successful candidate will mentor, recruit, and develop their team to achieve high performance, growth, and personal development, and provide technical leadership on large, complex projects, ensuring quality delivery and client satisfaction. Leadership skills, including team management, mentoring, and coaching is an important aspect of this role.

• Visibility & Thought Leadership:
  
  

They will represent Arcadis at industry events, conferences, and on social media, promoting people, projects, and global strategy, and be a champion for Arcadis’ position in the marketplace through publications, presentations, and participation on technical committees.

• Other Key Attributes:
  
  

Strong commercial acumen, including a strong understanding of P&L and fundamentals of running a professional services business is required, along with excellent written and oral communication skills. Advanced relationship management, key account management, business development and presentation skills are key parts of this role.

Qualifications & Experience

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Planning, or a related field.
• Master’s Degree in a related field
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including 10+ years in consultancy.
  
  

The successful candidate will have proven experience in leading large, complex projects and specialized components of projects. They will have strong technical expertise and understanding of national standards, codes of practice, and applicable provincial and federal regulations, with demonstrated ability to manage business relationships at a senior level and deliver profitable growth.

External recognition as an expert in the field with strong regional and national networks, as well as being a thought leader in Climate Adaptation, digital transformation, and innovation is important for success in this role.

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.

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.

The salary range for this position is $166,000-216,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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