Manager, Climate Risk, Sustainability Advisory

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 a Manager, Climate Risk to join our U.S.-based Sustainability Advisory business. In this role, you will help shape the future of sustainability by developing Arcadis’s global climate risk offering, leading complex client engagements, and scaling best-in-class methodologies across regions and sectors. As a trusted advisor, you’ll collaborate with diverse teams and industry leaders to solve some of the world’s most urgent challenges, including climate change and the transition to net zero. You’ll have the autonomy to take ownership of projects and drive results from day one, all while helping to grow Arcadis’s decarbonization services across North America. We offer a supportive culture that values integrity, professional growth, and innovation. If you are passionate about making a measurable difference and thrive in a fast-paced, client-focused environment, we want to hear from you.

At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to drive transformational change for clients and communities by addressing some of the world’s most critical climate and resilience challenges. As a leading global consultancy, we combine deep technical expertise with innovative digital solutions to help organizations understand, quantify, and manage climate-related physical and transition risks, translate climate scenarios into financial outcomes, and embed climate into enterprise risk management and strategic decision-making.

In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Sustainability Advisory, Climate Adaptation, Resilience, Asset Management, Engineering, and Digital Intelligence. You will help bridge science, engineering, finance, and strategy, ensuring that climate risk assessments are technically robust, financially defensible, and decision-useful for executive and board-level stakeholders.

This hybrid role is located in Washington DC, New York City, or Chicago. The ideal candidate for this role will be a highly organized self-starter with strong project management and communication skills, proven experience delivering climate risk strategy programs to global portfolios, and ability to collaborate across internal functions, cultures, and geographies.

Arcadis is focused on solving the most complex sustainability challenges. As such, you will help grow the Sustainability Advisory services in North America, reporting to our US Lead for Sustainability Advisory and our Global Technical Director for Climate Risk. You will lead and oversee complex climate risk assessment and reporting engagements for global clients across infrastructure, real estate, financial services, energy, transportation, consumer goods, and industrial sectors.  

This role combines:

Technical leadership (methodologies, models, scenarios, financial translation),

Client leadership (executive engagement, finance stakeholder buy-in),

Practice building (offer development, innovation, and growth).

You will work horizontally across Arcadis’ Global Business Areas (Mobility, Places, Resilience, Intelligence), driving the integration of climate risk analytics with engineering, adaptation design, asset resilience, and digital solutions. 

Role accountabilities:

As a Manager in our Sustainability Advisory team, you will lead the delivery of climate risk projects across multiple sectors such as real estate, retail, manufacturing, infrastructure, technology, and transportation. You will serve as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring that all deliverables are accurate, timely, and client-ready. Your role will include developing and implementing climate risk strategies, managing project teams, and providing quality assurance for technical analyses. You will also play a key role in mentoring junior staff, identifying opportunities to expand client relationships, and supporting the development of Arcadis’s broader sustainability offering. This position requires strong consulting experience, the ability to communicate complex topics clearly, and a thorough understanding of the latest sustainability frameworks and standards. 

In this role, you will serve as a climate risk technical authority and project lead, overseeing both physical and transition risk assessments. You will be responsible for conducting climate risk and opportunity assessments, quantitative scenario analyses, climate transition planning, and modeling the financial impacts of climate risk. Your technical leader