Becky Prince

Arcadis is a global design, engineering, and consultancy firm focused on delivering sustainable solutions across the built and natural environments. With expertise in infrastructure, water, buildings, and energy, it helps clients create resilient, futureproof assets while prioritising innovation, sustainability, and social impact.

In this role I partner with senior stakeholders and technical specialists, manage multi-million-pound submissions and client presentations, and am the Planning Lead for the delivery of an Oil and Gas Framework.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead the end-to-end bid process of major strategic pursuits from expression of interest to contract award, including prequalification.
  Work with multidisciplinary, global teams to deliver complex proposals.
• Develop pursuit plans outlining key milestones, resource requirements, and risk mitigations.
• Contribute to and support maintenance of a proposal library.
• Lead lessons learned reviews post-submission, embedding findings into future processes and contributing to continuous improvement at a global scale.
• Manage external suppliers and stakeholders to ensure all output collateral is delivered on time.
• Input to a range of business systems (e.g., Oracle Sales Cloud; SharePoint) in line with defined procedures.
• Monitor cost and resourcing.
• Ensure all outputs meet brand, quality, and compliance standards, contributing to strong decision-making and strategic alignment.
• Prepare and present governance materials, supporting gate reviews and executive briefings.

Key accountabilities:

• Led a complex transformation programme from planning through to implementation, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy and contract requirements.
• Acted as the point of contact to internal and client-side leadership teams, facilitating the successful adoption of change initiatives across central government accounts.
• Created and rolled out portfolio-level processes, toolkits, and reporting templates to improve visibility, consistency, and risk management.
• Directed multidisciplinary teams of subject matter experts to ensure cohesive, high-quality outputs aligned with client expectations and internal standards.
• Designed and led training for delivery and commercial teams to support adoption of improved change and commercial practices.
• Chaired pipeline and bid governance meetings, ensuring transparency, ownership, and proactive issue resolution across the portfolio.
• Produced high-quality documentation for governance forums, managing packs, recommendations, and follow-up actions. Led continuous improvement initiatives to streamline internal processes, improve quality, and reduce delivery risk.
• Managed multi-million-pound bids and Requests for Proposals, ensuring integration of change considerations within submission strategy and delivery planning.
• Challenged and supported project teams to ensure quality, mitigate delivery risk, and embed lessons learned into future planning.

• Supported the successful delivery of programmes by providing project assurance, governance support, and operational reporting.
• Owned and maintained RAID logs, collaborating with delivery teams to unblock issues and maintain programme momentum.
• Produced programme-level reporting packs to support steering committees and leadership decision-making.
• Partnered with commercial teams to ensure milestone tracking and contract alignment across workstreams.
• Maintained high standards of documentation, version control, and data accuracy in line with enterprise PMO best practices.
• Controlled document libraries and reporting systems to ensure confidentiality, compliance, and audit readiness.