Associate Director - Regional Local Authority Account Lead

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At Arcadis, we're helping clients solve some of the UK's most complex infrastructure and mobility challenges. As demand continues to grow across our Transportation business, we're looking for an experienced Associate Director to lead a key Local Authority account and help shape the future of highways, regeneration and infrastructure delivery across the region.

We are recruiting for multiple planned hires within this team and are taking a phased approach to appointments as our workload continues to grow across the Highways sector. While recruitment timelines may vary, we encourage interested candidates to apply early and become part of our talent pipeline for these strategically important opportunities.

The role sits within our Transportation Sector covering our Project Management and Commercial Management service lines. Our commissions span across Highways & Transportation Capital Delivery, Regeneration, Infrastructure, and Highway Asset Management. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining excellent client relationships, ensuring high‑quality delivery and supporting sustainable account growth.

This is a highly visible, client‑facing position, acting as a trusted advisor to senior Local Authority stakeholders while also playing a key leadership role internally.

• Act as the senior day‑to‑day lead for the Local Authority account, managing key client relationships.
• Build and sustain strong, trusted relationships with senior officers, procurement teams and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of Local Authority governance, procurement procedures, frameworks and routes to market.
• Represent the consultancy professionally and credibly at client meetings, workshops and review sessions.
• Support the development and delivery of the account management strategy, identifying opportunities for growth and service expansion.
• Contribute to framework bids, tenders and fee proposals, ensuring compliance with internal Governance.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines and service leads to deliver integrated solutions to the client.
• Monitor workload, pipeline and performance against agreed account objectives.
• Provide project or commercial management leadership across a portfolio of commissions.
• Ensure projects and programmes are delivered in line with agreed scope, quality, cost and programme requirements.
• Maintain a strong personal delivery record and oversee the performance of project teams.
• Promote best practice in project, commercial and risk management.
• Line‑manage, mentor and support junior and mid‑level staff within the region.
• Contribute to team development, resource planning and performance management.
• Act as a role model for the consultancy’s values, behaviours and standards.

• Experience with in a construction consultancy or professional services environment.
• Strong experience supporting Local Authority highways, regeneration and wider public-sector clients.
• A proven understanding of public-sector procurement, governance and framework delivery.
• A successful track record delivering complex infrastructure, transportation or regeneration programmes.
• Experience growing client relationships and managing strategic accounts.
• Chartered status with RICS, CIOB, APM or ICE, or be working towards chartership.
• A degree in a…