A&U Practice Group Strategist Healthcare

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Role description:

Location: Global scope/location, position can be filled in any location where Arcadis has a legal entity.

Purpose:

The Market Strategist role acts as deputy to the Global Practice Group Director and is responsible for co-developing the global sales and market growth strategy for the Practice Group along with the Global Sales Director and Practice Group Director.

You will deliver the practice area strategy at the global level and will work closely with the regional marketing and commercial enablement (CE) teams across the Architecture + Urbanism division and greater Places GBA to deliver your market’s requirements at the regional and local level.

You will be an integrated sales and marketing professional, conducting market and client research, and developing and delivering capture plans for top-tier client targets. You will work closely with the division Marketing Campaign Manager commissioning Practice Group-targeted campaigns for top-of-funnel sales and demand generation with Practice Group Business Development teams.

You will be relied upon by leadership and the global client development and marketing communities to champion your Practice Group and provide insight into your market and customers. You will advise on how the division should shape and market its offering within the larger Arcadis organization to increase our opportunity to win work with like-minded clients in close collaboration with the Practice Group Directors.

You will provide top-line strategy and messaging for tier 1 clients/pursuits and “must-win” opportunities for your practice area. You will help craft win themes, direct content, and provide guidance as needed. In specialty markets, you may take a more active role in proposal responses to ensure critical expertise is leveraged.

Market Strategists will consult with the Regional Commercial Enablement (CE) Leads and coordinators, driving best practices, to enable the team to deliver compelling, tailored-to-market, error-free documents, and presentations. As a Market Strategist, you will lead tier 1 and must win interview prep sessions in line with corporate sales program standards. In partnership with the Practice Group Director, you will be responsible for ensuring market strategy implementation and effectiveness. You will manage and report on practice area pipeline data, marketing program effectiveness, and associated KPIs while making recommendations for changes as needed. You will champion practice group knowledge-sharing campaigns across the firm and for centralized data.

As a Market Strategist in a creative environment, you will actively seek feedback and be comfortable with a fast pace of change. You will be able to both influence strategy and move quickly into operational mode to execute plans while leveraging your problem-solving capability and business acumen to translate big ideas into tangible results.

Directly reporting to the Director of Sales and has a dotted line to the respective Practice Group Director. This role can be performed in any Arcadis US office.

Role accountabilities:

• Develops and delivers the global sales and market growth strategy for the respective practice group working with regional marketing and CE leads to deliver on your behalf locally.
• Conducts global market research including assessing market movements and tracking client/customer preferences - scope: major, multi-market client targets.
• Deploys sales and marketing techniques to deliver on objectives including performing research analysis on markets, conducting competitor analysis, developing capture plans for tier 1 clients, and pursuing opportunities.
• Delivers relevant and insightful reports on practice group performance.
• Oversight of global practice group monthly reports, pipeline forecasting, and regional marketing performance for summary analysis, accuracy, and quality control.
• Attends tier 1 global and national industry events, and seeks out speaker opportunities for practice visibility.
• Understands the partnership model and builds excellent relationships with senior stakeholders, serving as a connector between Practice Groups, Places, and other Arcadis GBAs
• Reports on marketing effectiveness, making recommendations on performance improvement.
• Supports CE team by ensuring top projects for practice are captured with appropriate assets.
• Works closely with the regional marketing and global brand and communications teams to deliver campaigns in line with growth plans and messaging.
• Market Strategist scope may vary across functional titles based on industry and firm years’ experience and proven performance.
• The role works closely with the A+U CE Manager and A+U Marketing and Communications Leader and teams.
• The role will be a crucial member of multiple global communities including market research, strategic planning, marketing, client development, sales, brand, communications, and account leadership.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree-qualified
• Experience and knowledge across the healthcare sector,
• Ability and willingness to take on innovative approaches to supporting sales.
• Experience in steering a multi-stakeholder team towards success and adopting an ambitious mindset and drive to support the growth of the business.
Experience implementing processes, developing and supporting best practices, and continuous improvements with a proven track record of creating alignment across multiple stakeholders, whilst leading and engaging teams behind a cause and motivating them to transition and deliver

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Why Arcadis?

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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.

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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.

Arcadis offers benefits for full-time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program, and optional benefits including well-being benefits, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on the start date, and 20 days of PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $97600 - 168360/year.

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