Global Account Director - Semiconductors

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Role description:

Profitably grow the Semiconductor practice unit presence in line with the ARCADIS Semiconductor strategy and financial targets, and a focus on existing and new client engagement and growth. Revenue scale - 1yr: $121 million net revenue, 3yrs: $200 million net revenue.

This role has a Global scope/location, the position can be filled in any location where Arcadis GBA countries.

Role accountabilities:

Lead Semiconductor Business Development:

• Translate market trends (within and across the BU) into client actions.
• Engage and learn from key customers to guide our strategy.
• Build strategic engagements with the semiconductor ecosystem and partners.
• Build and prioritizing strategies across the semiconductor value chain - design, fabrication, process control, packaging, and test.
• Promote customer/partner successes by amplifying through marketing and collateral.
• Develop and maintain long-lasting relationships with key clients, the community, and organizations to enhance future business development opportunities.
• Provide customer/partner feedback to internal collaborators (product, engineering, sales, marketing, executives).
• Represent Arcadis at high-profile industry events and communities.
• Manage sales pipeline, priority setting, and reporting in alignment with global reporting standards.
• Lead BU sales globally to profitably, growing client book.
• Lead Global Account
• Ensure development and implementation of sales & account growth strategies for BU.
• Stress-test BU growth plans when all put together from a global perspective (reactive).
• Expand market size, as measured by pipeline.
• Develop high-performance teams through coaching and mentoring.
• Ensure regular client feedback is shared with project staff.
• Coordinates meetings between potential clients and individual internal specialists.

Develop sales excellence:

• Develop Intelligence offerings to key sector clients.
• Implement business development excellence processes and approaches including account plan reviews, performance assessment, and utilizing harmonized processes developed by the global growth team.
• Share best practices in business development and account management with the wider global business development community to allow others to learn and benefit.
• Improve to balance the cost of sales with results.

Act as a role model:

• Fully support global key accounts within the BU and prioritize resourcing of current and potential key accounts.
• Stimulate cross-selling with other BA's through all appropriate sectors and account teams.

Key Shared Accountabilities:

• Together with the BU Director and the BA Directors to determine and deliver the growth strategy globally and Major Project execution.
• Coordinate with other Business Directors to capture opportunities, to develop and implement integrated global propositions, and for country-specific Go-to-Market approach.
• Developing/expanding a network of relationships across the client's global organization, locations, and geographies, to create inspired partnerships and exceptional experiences, and establish Arcadis as a trusted partner to enable Arcadis to have maximum impact.

Qualifications & Experience:

• The candidate should have a bachelor's or master's degree and at least 20+ years of experience in the market to opportunity, pursuit to win, and account and client management within a multinational engineering or professional services firm.
• The candidate should have a solid global market understanding of the semiconductor industry.
• The candidate should demonstrate a proven track record of developing and implementing sales strategies to profitably grow client accounts.
• The candidate will be able to demonstrate significant leadership capability and the ability to inspire multi-disciplinary teams around a common purpose.

Further required competencies and experiences:

• Demonstrated experience as a senior sales leader with a strong presence in the semiconductor market globally.
• Ambitious mindset and a strong drive to grow the business and meet targets.
• Entrepreneurial attitude and strategic focus with strong commercial drive and decisiveness.

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