Asset Management Principal Consultant

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:

Our Places business area is focused on creating and managing sustainable places where people live, work, and thrive; we’re working together to build a better, more sustainable future. And even though our Places business is rapidly growing, we have ambitious plans to go further. We need strategic thinkers; we need people to deliver our plans. As one of the fastest growing areas in Arcadis, we’re here for the long-term. Our careers reflect that. You’ll develop, grow and exceed your potential. We take your career journey seriously and we’ll support you every step of the way

The post holder will join the Arcadis Asset Optimisation practice, a team of professional consultants providing strategic and technical advice to a wide range of clients bridging both the public & private sector. The overarching purpose of the practice is to drive alignment of clients property portfolios with core organisational objectives, transitioning property from a necessary evil to a strategic enabler. The practice provides support to the following client bodies: 

• Central Government Departments, Local Authorities, Defence, Education and Health


• SPV’s, Lenders / Funder’s and Service Provider / Contracting organisations


• Financial Institutions and Banks, Conglomerates & Consumer Goods, Corporate Developers, Housing, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals and Infrastructure

Role accountabilities:

Areas of service delivery

You will need to be able to provide leadership across a number of the following areas:  

• PFI advisory including handback


• Property Asset Management


• Portfolio Mapping / Strategy


• FM Strategic Advisory


• Life Cycle & Backlog Modelling


• TOTEX Optimisation


• Whole Life Costing


• Benchmarking


• Compliance Reviews / Audit


• Champion innovation, digital tools, and sustainability-led asset strategies

 The role involves leading consultancy commissions across the full spectrum of AO services, undertaking assignments  including:

• Strategic Reviews


• Target Operating Model Design


• Supply Chain / Procurement


• Benchmarking & Value for Money Reviews


• Performance Reviews


• Audits – Compliance, Controls, Assurance and Governance


• Data analytics and modelling including cost estimation – Preparing feasibility studies, estimates, cost plans, and data bases.


• Contract support / reviews including PFIs


• Lead on key client relationships 


• Contribute to business development / client farming through proposals / thought leadership 


• Mentor junior team members.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Time served experience and knowledge of property focused consultancy or equivalent 


• Significant experience of Public Sector client’s; Health, Education & LA etc. as well as having experience of operating within a private sector environment.


• Likely to be a degree qualified property professional or with full membership of IWFM / RICS or other professionally related organisation


• Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams and delivering major programmes or portfolios of work.

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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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