Role: Analytics Practice Lead

Location: Ontario

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:

We deliver digital products and solutions to help our customers manage the life cycle of their high value assets.  We enable more predictable, efficient and sustainable business operations through transforming data in to actionable intelligence.  

We deliver both commercial off the shelf product capability, and enterprise level solutions.  A key part of our engagement model, particularly for positioning our enterprise solutions, is to provide focussed consulting services for our customers.  This targeted advisory engagement includes helping our customers develop digital asset management strategies, transformation blueprints, and solution requirements sets.   

Intelligence is a digital solutions and products oriented business area, and therefore all our consulting activity is aimed at positioning for, and supporting the implementation of value-adding digital products and solutions, towards the goal of securing enduring reoccurring revenues. 

We have formed a global data science and analytics group, as part of the Intelligence GBA Global Solutions Delivery Organization – covering: 

Managed Service Contracts, Systems Integration Services, “Woven” – Telecommunications Network Services, Transportation Tolling Solution, Urban Transportation Solutions, Asset Management, Enterprise Asset Management, EAM and Enterprise Decision Analytics (Asset Investment Planning, AIP). 

Individuals in this group will undertake a mix of billable, strategic advisory work and where necessary pre-sales support activities. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of data science and advanced analytics focused opportunities and provide leadership to the engagements. 

Role accountabilities:

To lead strategic advisory engagements, positioning IGBA for future product sales and Solution implementations  Undertake consulting roles on integrated solution delivery teams  Working with our growth community, contribute effectively to business winning endeavours, from early customer engagement, to supporting quote output  Develop, support and mentor colleagues within our Data Science and Analytics Group, and broader IGBA community  Deliver on time utilisation targets, which will vary according to business plans and forward load commitments  Deliver customer engagements to time, cost and quality, working pro-actively with the IGBA PMO to do so  Be a principal point of engagement with other Arcadis business area to make sure we can leverage the broad advisory capacity and reach-back potential  Be active in sharing your knowledge, effectively utilise IGBA information and collaboration systems, and secure opportunities for continuous development to the benefit of our business (such as influencing new product development) and IGBA colleagues  Undertake a leadership role in the promotion of IGBA values, and securing the health, safety and wellbeing of colleagues, customer and partners 

Qualifications & Experience:

We are looking for individuals who have a strong track record in business, digital and technical consulting within a strategic asset management context.  You will have successfully delivered a broad range of consulting assignments across asset intensive industries, with a focus on enabling better decisions across the asset lifecycle and the role of information systems in enabling such insights.   

Your style will be logical, engaging and flexible and you will bring an analytical rigour to your work.  With strong communication skills you will be comfortable engaging across diverse communities, including with senior, Board level stakeholders. 

Must Haves: 

10+ years’ experience working in physical asset intensive industries, including rail, utilities, highways or similar  5+ years consulting experience in strategic asset management, digital transformation and information management  Experience of leading customer engagements, from initial engagement, to quote preparation and successful delivery of assignments  Excellent communication skills in order to prepare reports, make presentations to executives and business partners, and to provide direction for staff  Experience of developing and managing a high performing consulting team 

Nice to haves: 

A broad understanding of ISO 55000 and digital landscape as it pertains to physical asset management   Experience of working with different cultures across a global customer base  Experience of information system implementation, and Agile solution development and delivery  Chartered Certification and relevant professional qualification(s) such as diploma in asset management or CMI qualification  Ownership of a consulting P&L and responsibility for team billability  A significant network of contacts to drive new customer opportunities, and partnering options  Experience of working in or with a ‘big 4’ consulting business, or strategy firm. 

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.

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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.