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: Owns and operates the intake process for EA initiatives, ensuring incoming requests, and proposals are consistently assessed, shaped and prioritized into high-quality, decision-ready TECH portfolio aligned with strategic, financial and architectural goals.
Role accountabilities:
Individual accountabilities:
- Assessment and Triage
- Evaluation of incoming requests for strategic alignment, value, risk, complexity and feasibility
- Coordination of early-stage assessment across architecture, security, finance, and delivery
- Classification of initiatives (minor, major, legally required, etc)
- Portfolio Shaping
- Translation of raw demand into clear, comparable portfolio
- Identification of overlaps, dependencies, and consolidated opportunities
- Recommendation of sequencing, bundling or rejection of initiatives
- Governance and Decision Support
- Preparation of materials for Portfolio review and investment decision forums (ATDC)
- Provision of fact-based recommendations to senior stakeholder, tracks decisions, outcomes and rationale for transparency and auditability
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Partnering with business sponsors to improve quality of submissions
- Education of stakeholders on intake expectations and portfolio constraints
- Acting as neutral broker between business demand and technology capacity
- Continuous Improvement
- Monitor intake performance metrics (cycle time, quality, rework)
- Continuously refine criteria, scoring models, and workflow
- Ensure intake process scales with organisational maturity
Key Shared Accountabilities:
- Intake and Portfolio Management Director
- Alignment on initiative reviews, assessments, priorization and decision packs for governance forums
- Portfolio Value and Risk Manager
- Shared ownership of Portfolio Dashboard and intake performance metrics
- Shared ownership of lane governance (intake forms, assessment templates)
- EA Lane Directors
- Coordinate on new initiatives and project assessments
- Align resource and time requirements for new initiatives and assessments
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years experience in complex, multi-country organizations. Preferred is experience in Technology Portfolio and demand management.
- Strong background in business process design and business case evaluation.
- Strengths in stakeholder management and communication incl. executive storytelling
- Understanding of complex ERP and other business critical applications. Structured problem saving and analytical thinking.
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. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a people first business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.
