Global Skills Horizon Manager

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**:
Location: Global scope/location, the position can be filled in any location - Australia, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

Purpose: Together with the support of our key stakeholders, the Skills Powered Delivery Team is tasked with successfully transitioning Arcadis into a Skills Powered Organisation. We will be embedding skill-based talent practices throughout the lifecycle of the employee experience, so we may attract, grow, and connect our talent globally.

Embracing this skills-focused philosophy will be one of the largest, most impactful endeavours we will embark on as an organisation. We will therefore be delivering this in multiple stages (referred to as Horizons) with our people's experience central to all our decisions.

Reporting Lines: Reporting to the Global Skills Program Director

**Role accountabilities**:
Individual Accountabilities:

- Lead the design and delivery of all developments within each Horizon of the Skills Powered Program
- Influence and lead the engagement and interactions with all Arcadis stakeholders and SMEs to gather business requirements and co-create solutions.
- Determine the final recommendations of the future state ways of working for program leadership and sponsor approval.
- Determine pilot/roll-out plans in collaboration and consultation with the business change sponsors.
- Influence the business to co-create the required governance processes to support the adoption and UX for enabling technology, whilst also protecting the business
- Work with the Global People Analytics Manager to lead the build-out of the People Analytics requirements/strategy to ensure that data generated can be analyzed and used to provide business insights, to drive technology adoption and content evaluation.
- Constantly review system releases, enhancements, and version controls with the Delivery and Tech Team to consider which items should be adopted, how and when
- Identify, manage, and escalate any project risks or issues and initiate mitigating actions to avoid delays or financial impacts.
- Actively engage with the Change Team to develop and update the change action plans, adoption metrics, and all other activities that contribute to the success of the program.
- Identify and plan for interdependencies with future Horizons, implementing the required actions to mitigate re-work.
- Co-Lead workshops, persona development interviews, focus groups, co-creation studios, testing, pilots, cross-functional working groups, and any other engagements with the Change Team
- Partner with People Business Partners to develop, leverage and enhance experiences that will impact our people's engagement, retention, and career growth.
- Provide feedback to the Technology partner where we want to see improvements, identify current pain points, and our preferences for how this might be enhanced or developed.

Key Shared Accountabilities:

- Become an expert on the Skills Powered Organisation philosophy and contribute to the ongoing dialogue about research and new innovations in this space
- Together with the Global Skills Program Director, identify opportunities for Functions to leverage the talent intelligence generated and co-create the appropriate processes to support future reliance on this intelligence to inform more effective decision-making.
- Document and disseminate lessons learnt, ensuring effective knowledge share to continually enhance future initiatives.

Decision Rights:

- Owns: _Business engagement and development of the future state of all use cases within the horizon plans
- Influences: _The successful transition to being a Skills Powered Organisation
- Vetoes: _Actions that impact the timely delivery of each Horizon

**Qualifications & Experience**:
**_Managing change: _**Managing change e.g. divestments or mergers/acquisitions, growing a start-up, or leading change into other markets/services or products, operating with new business models, turning around underperforming businesses, programs, or teams, and driving standardization and automation at scale.

**_Leading transformation: _**Ability to bring people on a journey to the unknown, creating a sense of stability and security in uncertain times, avoiding change fatigue.

**_Breadth of experience: _**Working internationally, across different industries and business lines and/or functions, managing projects impacting people/issues/solutions across organizational boundaries.

**Be curious**:

- Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others; bringing Partners and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-