Client Portfolio Manager - Water

Job description

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:** We’re looking for a sales / growth / business development leader to help drive expansion across the Water sector in Australia. This is a national-facing role, focused on growing strategic client portfolios, opening new markets, and strengthening long-term client relationships. You’ll play a key role in shaping and winning work across a diverse service offering — connecting client needs to the best of Arcadis, from strategy through to delivery. **Role accountabilities:** - Grow strategic client portfolios and expand Arcadis’ presence across priority water clients nationally - Identify and open new markets and relationships, including targeting high-value opportunities - Build trusted, long-term relationships with senior client stakeholders - Partner with account teams to shape and win work, from early engagement through to delivery - Drive a strong and credible pipeline, ensuring opportunities are prioritised, progressed, and converted - Champion cross-selling and diversification, connecting clients to the full breadth of Arcadis capabilities - Support and mentor teams in sales capability, client engagement, and opportunity conversion - Work with leadership to align commercial strategy, pricing, and positioning to win work and deliver strong outcomes **Qualifications & Experience:** - Proven success in selling and winning work, growing client portfolios, and opening new markets in the Australian water sector - Strong network and credibility with water sector clients and decision-makers - Highly developed relationship-building and influencing skills at senior levels - Ability to connect client needs to multidisciplinary solutions across strategy, design, and delivery - Strong commercial acumen, with experience balancing growth, margin, and long-term client value - Experience working in complex, matrixed organisations and leading without formal authority - A growth mindset - proactive, driven, and energised by building new opportunities **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 skill-based approach, where you can hardness 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. As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Veterans and spouses are invited to apply. #LI-BS2