Job Description

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 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 continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Arcadis is seeking a Business Analyst to support complex programmes and transformation initiatives across infrastructure and transportation sectors.

Working as part of multidisciplinary teams, you will apply business analysis expertise to improve how programmes are planned, delivered, and controlled. This includes analysing and optimising business processes, enabling data‑driven decision‑making, and identifying opportunities for optimising data, technology, process, governance and culture within a project, programme or enterprise context to achieve sustainable performance improvement.

You will contribute structured insight, practical recommendations, and process improvements that enhance performance, governance, and value for money across client programmes.

Role Accountabilities

• Analyse and document current‑state processes to identify inefficiencies, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Design future‑state processes aligned to governance, data, and enterprise systems
• Apply lean and continuous improvement principles to drive efficiency and consistency
• Identify opportunities for improved data management, digital automation and improved productivity within business processes
• Define data requirements and performance metrics to support reporting and decision‑making
• Engage stakeholders across delivery, commercial, PMO, and digital teams to gather requirements and align solutions
• Facilitate workshops and communicate process changes, risks, and benefits clearly
• Support adoption of new processes and ways of working
• Maintain clear process documentation and support governance and assurance activities

• Contribute to continuous improvement and benefits realisation across programmes

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience in business analysis, process optimisation, or business improvement within project or programme environments
• Experience working in UK & Ireland transportation sectors (rail, highways, aviation, ports) or comparable sectors (other sector experience considered)
• Ability to analyse, design, and improve business processes and requirements
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills
• Understanding of how processes support performance, controls, data quality, and decision‑making

Training / Background (one or more of the following):

• One of:
  • Project & programme management
  • NEC commercial / contract management
  • PMO / Project Controls
• Plus business consultancy, digital transformation, or data analytics

OR equivalent demonstrable experience applying these disciplines within programme environments

• Experience with process mapping tools (e.g. Visio) and structured analysis approaches
• Interest in digital transformation, data‑driven working, and lean continuous improvement

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

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 do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, 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.

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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.