Business Growth & Client Development

• Lead business development activities across the sector, securing profitable growth and expanding strategic client relationships.
• Own and actively manage key priority accounts, personally contributing to significant revenue growth.
• Identify and bring to market new client, service and proposition opportunities.
• Collaborate with sector and business leaders to maximise cross-selling opportunities and broaden client engagement across the organisation, in particular the growth of solutions we take to our LII clients.
• Build and maintain senior executive and board-level relationships with major industry stakeholders.

Commercial & Operational Excellence

• Take full accountability for sector performance, including P&L management, forecasting and delivery of growth targets.
• Oversee the sector sales pipeline, ensuring investment is targeted towards the highest-value opportunities.
• Provide leadership and governance across pursuit, bidding and client development activities.
• Manage risk and opportunity proactively to maximise profitability and long-term value creation.
• Ensure best practice processes and governance are consistently applied throughout the sector.

People Leadership

• Lead, inspire and develop a multidisciplinary team of approximately 130 professionals.
• Foster a culture that is client-centric, innovative, collaborative and people-focused.
• Drive employee engagement, talent development and succession planning across the sector.
• Support recruitment and retention strategies to ensure the business has the capabilities required to deliver future growth.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, you will:

• Deliver sustained revenue and profit growth across the LII sector.
• Expand market share within the UK real estate lending, investment and insurance markets.
• Strengthen relationships with strategic clients and industry stakeholders.
• Build a high-performing team capable of delivering exceptional client outcomes.
• Enhance the organisation's reputation as a market-leading advisor and delivery partner.

Qualifications & Experience

• You are a commercially driven leader with a strong track record of delivering growth, developing client relationships and leading successful teams within the real estate sector. You'll bring:
• Extensive knowledge of the UK real estate lending, investment and insurance market, with a deep understanding of key trends, challenges and opportunities.
• Significant experience working with LII and other major real estate stakeholders.
• Expertise in Technical Due Diligence, Fund and Investment Monitoring, ESG advisory and Building Surveying services.
• A proven track record of developing and growing strategic client accounts and delivering commercial success.
• Strong leadership capabilities, with experience inspiring and developing high-performing teams.
• Outstanding relationship-building and influencing skills, with credibility at executive and board level.
• The ability to think strategically while maintaining a strong focus on execution and results.

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.