About The Position
Arcadis is seeking a senior leader to assure delivery of a portfolio of data center projects across North America, strengthening performance, consistency, and client confidence. The role provides executive oversight, mobilizes project teams, and develops cost, schedule, and program management professionals. The successful candidate will bring deep knowledge of the data center market and engage client stakeholders to build confidence in delivery outcomes while leading delivery teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 10 years of experience in senior leadership of programmes, portfolios, or multi-project delivery.
- Experience with complex capital portfolios 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.
- Ability to intervene effectively in challenging delivery environments.
- Ability and willingness to travel across the United States to support delivery teams.
- Proven commitment to health, safety, sustainability, and efficient delivery of large-scale technology infrastructure projects.
Nice To Haves
- Five years of data center, mission-critical, or comparable capital-sector experience.
- Chartership or accreditation such as MRICS, MCIOB, PMP, PgMP, or APM.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
