National Practice Leader - Asset and Enterprise Risk and Resilience (Finance)
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:
Arcadis' Resilience Water team is seeking a National Practice Leader to shape and lead our national strategy for climate risk and asset resilience. This senior role reports to the Resilience Water Management Practice Director and may be based in Arlington, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Raleigh, San Francisco, Seattle, or Virginia Beach.
Role Accountabilities:
As National Practice Leader, you'll drive innovation and strategic delivery to help protect critical infrastructure-such as water systems, hospitals, and enterprise assets-from climate and manmade threats. You'll play a key role in shaping the national practice and delivering impactful, future-ready solutions. Responsibilities include:
- Lead strategy and delivery of asset and climate risk resilience services, including methodology development (e.g., J100), innovation initiatives, and portfolio-level risk assessments.
- Serve as technical and pursuit lead on major proposals, overseeing scope development, pricing strategies, and delivery planning to secure high-impact projects.
- Foster executive client relationships, providing strategic guidance on resilience challenges while expanding Arcadis' market presence and reputation.
- Develop and mentor internal talent, support recruitment, manage team capacity, and cultivate a collaborative, inclusive, high-performance culture.
- Represent Arcadis at national conferences and industry forums, contributing thought leadership, tracking market trends, and informing business strategy.
- Travel (up to 25%) to support national client engagements and project delivery.
Key Skills and Experience:
To succeed in this role, you must have asset and enterprise risk and resilience expertise-including asset and portfolio-based climate risk assessments, hazard mitigation, emergency response planning, and climate-informed asset management. Strong leadership, communication, and client engagement skills are essential, as is the ability to deliver technical excellence while driving innovation and team growth.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Planning, Earth Sciences, or a related field
- 10 years of consulting experience with an environmental or management consulting firm-or equivalent public sector experience
- 5 years leading climate risk and asset resilience-related projects
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Planning, Engineering, Earth Sciences, M.B.A., M.P.A., Economics, or related field
- Relevant certification(s), such as PE, AICP, PMP, or equivalent
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. 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.
Arcadis offers benefits for full-time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program, and optional benefits, including well-being benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $136,086 - $227,866. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project, and location.
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