Principal, Landscape Architect - Placemaking (Finance)

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:

Arcadis is seeking an Principal level Landscape Architect to join our growing Placemaking Practice Group in Coral Gable Florida. As part of our existing Placemaking Practice Group, we are looking for an experienced leader to drive strategic growth, inspire teams, and cultivate meaningful client relationships. This is an outward facing, Principal level role for someone with existing client connections within Miami, South Florida and surrounding areas. The individual should have a minimum of 15 years' experience and be capable of leading projects, teams, and business development initiatives.

In this key leadership role, you will be responsible for developing and growing a talented team, fostering collaboration, and delivering creative solutions that address client needs and align with our placemaking vision. You will actively spearhead business development initiatives, identifying new opportunities and partnerships that expand our reach and impact.

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in contributing to the direction of our Southeast placemaking strategy, driving planning and implementation efforts, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative projects. If you are passionate about creating vibrant, inclusive spaces and have a proven track record in leadership and business development, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact with Arcadis.

Role accountabilities:

• Contribute to the formulation of a strategic growth plan for the region
• Oversee staff and projects, maintain financial performance metrics
• Takes a lead role in business development, identifying and cultivating new relationships, particularly in the South Florida market
• Actively participate in the identification and targeting of clients through the delivery of service excellence to deliver growth in organic revenue in the practice group
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the business plan and ensure the team understands it, and the role that they play in its achievement, through the development of the appropriate culture and the provision of context and clarity
• Build strong relationships and create successful teams
• Develop enduring relationships with clients to understand their business needs and ensure client satisfaction to improve retention and deliver organic revenue growth
• Direct the identification of talent in the practice group in both technical capability and sales and promote career development by directing individuals who are identified, to the appropriate development programs
• Participate in decisions on resource utilization within the practice group
• Maintain an in-depth and up-to-date understanding of the practice group's clients and the market to identify key trends and emerging opportunities
• Develop relationships throughout Arcadis to foster cooperation and to maximize opportunities to cross-sell within the organization

Qualifications & Experience:

• A bachelor's degree or masters degree in Landscape Architecture, with a min of 15+ years of experience leading and managing complex landscape architectural projects from concept to completion including all phases of design and project delivery.
• A proven track record of delivering transformative placemaking projects for high-profile or large-scale clients in urban development, infrastructure, or mobility sectors.
• A strong commercial mindset with the ability to lead cross-disciplinary teams, foster collaboration, and inspire innovation.
• Strong Strategy, Sales, and Business Development skills with existing connectivity in the Miami and South Florida market
• Critical thinking skills that incorporate and blend innovative ideas in land use, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning and designing pedestrian centric environments
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical/visualization storytelling skills to convey ideas to clients, elected officials, managers, decision-makers, and technical staff

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 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 wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $110,000 - $190,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.