Associate / Commercial Director (PMCM) - Birmingham

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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:

At Arcadis, we deliver sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With a growing portfolio of high-profile programmes across the UK, we're looking for an experienced Associate / Commercial Director (PMCM) to join our Birmingham team and play a key role in leading commercial excellence across complex projects and programmes.

This is an exciting opportunity for an accomplished commercial leader to influence project outcomes, develop high-performing teams, strengthen client relationships, and contribute to the continued growth of our Project and Commercial Management business.

Role accountabilities:

As an Associate / Commercial Director, you will lead the delivery of commercial and cost management services across major projects, ensuring successful outcomes for clients while driving performance, innovation, and growth.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading commercial and cost management commissions from inception through to completion.
• Managing and developing high-performing teams, providing coaching, mentoring, and technical leadership.
• Overseeing project financial performance, commercial strategy, budgets, forecasting, and resource planning.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients and senior stakeholders, understanding their objectives and delivering commercially sound solutions.
• Providing strategic commercial guidance across complex programmes and projects.
• Ensuring compliance with contract requirements, governance processes, and quality standards.
• Identifying opportunities to improve service delivery, drive innovation, and enhance commercial performance.
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships that support repeat business and growth opportunities.
• Supporting business development activities, bids, and pursuits within the Birmingham market and across the wider business.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience.
• Chartered status with a relevant professional body, or working towards.
• Relevant professional commercial/cost management qualifications.
• CSCS card holder (preferred).

• Significant experience in commercial, cost, or programme management environments, specifically in Highways, Aviation or Rail industries
• A proven track record delivering medium to large-scale projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and developing talent.
• Strong client engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and build long-term relationships.
• Excellent commercial acumen and the ability to manage complex project financials.
• Experience working within major infrastructure, property, transport, utilities, or construction sectors.
• A passion for delivering high-quality outcomes while driving innovation and continuous improvement.

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.