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:
- The overarching objective of this role is to provide support in gathering insights that will enable involved stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. This will be achieved by:
- Working with the stakeholders to identify the scope of research
- Identifying appropriate data sources and using them to gather information about Arcadis, its competitors, and various markets we operate in
Analysis of the information and its presentation in various formats and to various audiences
Role accountabilities:
Responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:
Scoping the research projects
- Participate in research scoping discussions to understand the purpose of the research, the best methodology to be used
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs;
Information gathering
- Identify the best sources of data and work with senior colleagues on verifying their applicability and shortcomings
- Use provided tools to gather and store the data collected from various published and unpublished sources to supplement market understanding and data collected from various market research initiatives
- For regular and on-going initiatives, update the database on regular basis
Analysis
- Check the quality of data to be used (consistency, gaps, is it fit for the purpose)
- Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis, depending on the task
- Support colleagues in their analyses
- Organize the data and make sure it is stored properly
- Perform both individual research projects as well as part of the bigger team
Presentation
- Extract the key information from complex sources and simplify it
- Present the insights and data in various formats: graphs, presentations, short reports
- Based on the insights, formulate recommendations
- Provide regular market research reports including searches on our key clients, key projects, industry news and competitors;
- Other administrative tasks as needed
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering, economic or business related field
- With more than 3 years’ experience in research
- Experience working in engineering, construction industry
- Knowledge of MS Office applications, ideally in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Knowledgeable in primary and secondary research techniques
Key Qualifications
Research scoping and information gathering
- Ability to handle confidential or sensitive information
- Fluency in search and review of different data sources, both quantitative and qualitative
- Curiosity to learn about the subject and to understand the issues involved
Data analysis and presentation
- Demonstrate accurate/logical problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail combined with the ability to see the ‘bigger picture’
- Proven success in group collaboration to collectively define, isolate, analyze, and comprehend complex issues
- Ability to present information in different formats, creativity around data presentation
- Critical and willing to go extra mile to verify the data and/or obtain extra information
Ways of working
- Curiosity and willingness to learn continuously, comfortable with taking on challenging tasks
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Ability to juggle multiple projects at once
- Ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines despite multiple and conflicting priorities
- Self-directed and assertive individual who can work on their own initiative, is driven and used to working in a fast-paced large corporate organization
- Must be a strong team player
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.