Senior Project & Program (PPM) Consultant – Planning

We are excited to again be growing our PPM team and looking for enthusiastic professionals to join our team to work on a range of water related projects with a focus on sustainability and resilience. In this role you will operationally manage core projects or program to deliver defined objectives. You will also be responsible for delivering project and programme in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and will have deep technical knowledge and broad business experience

As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you’ll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

The role sits within our global business area Resilience. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Oversee an agreed scope of work and/or the operational workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed/resources are fully utilised in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work
• Work within established standard operating procedures and systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets
• Deliver a number of small to medium scale projects or program ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
• Present any project risks or issues to BA managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure compliance to project delivery standards
• Provide advice to colleagues surrounding behaviours, to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes
• Analyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends. Use own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision-making.
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems.
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations.
• Advise senior management on issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies.
• Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.
• Drive a culture of project delivery excellence within the team, ensuring that adequate talent is available and assigned to lead on project delivery from a technical and task management perspective.
• Responsible for the delivery of projects/tasks within the team is in accordance with Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets.
• Responsible for career development, driving a culture of best practice around GPS and empowerment of staff to own the development of their careers.
• Drive staff engagement levels by drawing insights from tools such as YourVoice, identifying engagement drivers and developing and implementing action plans to ensure a well engaged team.

Qualification and Experience:-

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status
• Relevant experience including management of small to medium sized project (AKA ‘core’ sized projects)
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
• ‘Expert’ level expertise in project and program management
• Knowledge of own area managed and an understanding of wider program and business
• Experience in managing business relationships at senior-management level

Location:-

• India.

Company Overview:-

Arcadis is the leading global Design & Consultancy for natural and built assets. Applying our deep market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services we work in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets. We are 28,000 people, active in over 70 countries that generate €3.5 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world.