About this role
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:
As a Due Diligence Manager within the Land & Property team, you will lead and coordinate all land, property, legal, planning, environmental and commercial due diligence activities required to support investment decisions, funding processes, acquisitions, disposals and strategic property initiatives.
You will act as the focal point for investors, funding partners, internal stakeholders and external advisors, ensuring that due diligence investigations are completed efficiently, risks are identified and mitigated, and decision-makers are provided with clear and accurate information to support investment and business decisions.
Role Responsibilities:
Due Diligence Leadership • Lead and manage property and land due diligence workstreams across acquisitions, disposals, refinancing activities and strategic estate projects. • Coordinate legal, planning, valuation, environmental, technical and commercial due diligence reviews. • Establish and manage due diligence programmes, ensuring all workstreams are completed within agreed timelines. • Identify, assess and document key risks, liabilities, opportunities and constraints relating to property and land assets. • Maintain and oversee due diligence trackers, risk registers and action plans. Investor & Funding Support • Act as the primary point of contact for investors, lenders and funding stakeholders regarding property due diligence matters. • Coordinate responses to investor enquiries and requests for information. • Prepare and present due diligence findings, risk summaries and recommendations to senior stakeholders. • Support funding applications, business cases and investment approvals through the provision of robust due diligence information. Data Room & Documentation Management • Establish and manage virtual data rooms and document repositories. • Ensure property documentation, contracts, title information, surveys, valuations and approvals are complete and readily accessible. • Coordinate the collection, validation and review of due diligence materials from internal teams and external advisors. • Ensure information provided to investors and stakeholders is accurate, consistent and governance compliant. Risk Management & Governance • Review due diligence findings and ensure identified risks are appropriately escalated and managed. • Monitor compliance with governance requirements, regulatory obligations and internal procedures. • Develop and maintain due diligence processes, templates and reporting standards. • Support continuous improvement of due diligence governance and assurance frameworks. Stakeholder Management • Manage relationships with legal advisors, surveyors, planners, valuers, environmental consultants and other specialist providers. • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to deliver comprehensive due diligence assessments. • Build strong relationships across finance, commercial, legal, estates and operational teams.
Qualifications & Experience:
Essential • Significant experience in property, real estate, infrastructure or land-related due diligence. • Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary due diligence programmes. • Strong understanding of property transactions, land rights, contracts and commercial risk. • Experience supporting investment, acquisition, disposal or funding processes. • Ability to analyse complex information and present clear recommendations to senior stakeholders. • Proven stakeholder management experience across internal and external parties. Desirable • Experience within infrastructure, utilities, regeneration or estate management sectors. • Knowledge of investment appraisals, private funding structures and transaction processes. • Familiarity with property, planning, legal and environmental risk assessment. Key Skills Essential • Strong analytical and risk assessment skills. • Excellent report writing and presentation capabilities. • Ability to interrogate large volumes of property and transactional information. • Strong project management and organisational skills. • Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills. • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities. Desirable • MRICS, MRTPI, APM, PRINCE2 or similar professional qualification. • Experience with data room management and transaction support. • Knowledge of governance, compliance and assurance frameworks.
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 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.
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