Role: Analytics Consultant 

Location: Toronto

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:

The Analytics Consultant is responsible for leading (and overseeing) technical delivery across multiple projects. The Analytics Consultant will provide expertise in the implementation of Analytics Solutions for our customers. 

The Analytics Consultant will manage projects and may be a coach to other Junior Analytics Consultants and Junior Data Scientists within the Data & Decision Science group. They will communicate with clients throughout the project lifecycle, including demonstrations, requirements gathering, results presentation and training. 

The Analytics Consultant will also work closely with other teams, including a close collaboration within Solutions and Product & Technology teams. You will interface with the wider business to provide guidance on future solutions and provide technical input on analytics solutions and products. 

The role sits within our global business area Intelligence. We use digital intelligence and deep human knowledge to create products and solutions in a holistic way. We empower our clients with agile, data-driven insights and technologies that complement our sustainable design, engineering and advisory expertise. We can confidently work in partnership to address global challenges from climate change and rapid urbanization, to increasing digitalization, socio-economic disruption and societal expectations head-on, all with the common goal of improving quality of life.

Role accountabilities:

Driving quality and innovation within Analytics solutions, identifying and disseminating best practice in terms of approaches and tooling. Manage the delivery of analytical projects to clients ensuring assigned projects are delivered on time, within budget, to high quality and in accordance with project scope. Develop strong and trusted relationships with client representatives driven by track record and credibility. Act as analytics solution architect, ensuring that the design fully meets the client’s needs and wherever possible has the potential to be offered to other clients with minimal re-work to maximise future revenue. Manage outputs and quality throughout delivery of a project ensuring all work packages align to the project scope. Peer review of reports and code produced by colleagues. Provide support for business development including: Delivery of technical sales support including software demonstrations. Writing proposals for client projects & scope changes and convert them to sales. Identifying opportunities to generate additional revenue and develop new revenue streams. Ensure the services and software delivered fully meets client expectations and delivers value in terms of realisation of business benefits.

Qualifications & Experience:

The ideal candidate will have a background in solution deployment and analytics consultancy, ideally within a physical asset owning company context. They will have good communication and organisational skills. They will have a strong understanding of advanced analytics techniques such as optimisation and general numerical modelling. A keen interest in the latest technologies is important, to help ensure that the product stays on the cutting edge. 

More importantly than these technical skills, however, we are looking for someone to be an analytics leader, pushing forward the boundaries of what we do, and the standards expected of the wider analytics team. The successful candidate will need to be resilient and maintain a positive attitude when faced with challenges, be an excellent problem-solver, and be happy to be out of their comfort zone. They will need to have excellent communication skills, not just at a technical level, but also with more business-focused colleagues. They will not shy away from a challenge and will stand up and be counted. They will never be satisfied, and always look to find the next improvements. 

Experience of delivery of analytical projects in a consultancy environment. An effective communicator who is credible, confident and articulate.  Able to communicate complex technical detail to non-technical audiences.  Demonstrable skills in data collection and interpretation. Understanding of investment models, assets and systems of assets, understanding of Optimisation (linear & non-linear), Prioritisation and Monte Carlo analysis. Experience of working for a large asset owning company, or on projects for such companies, would be advantageous.  Experience in advanced data visualisation techniques along with tools such as Qlik, Power BI and open source visualisation tools Sensitivity and scenario analysis of analytical models. Mathematical and statistical analysis and modelling skills.  Proven ability in presenting methodologies and results to all levels in a business environment. Excellent communication (verbal and written) and organisational skills. You have experience coaching other technology professionals at various levels You have experience working with professional coding technologies such as Git. You have experience of waterfall and Agile methodologies and within Agile understand the differences between Scrum, SAFe, KanBan including their context and application

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.
 

The salary range for this position is $110k - $130k. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.