Stephen James Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Arcadis is one of the top engineering, technical and ESG consultancies advising investors on infrastructure transactions and developments worldwide. Due to its size and coverage, Arcadis provides this advice across more asset classes and more countries than any other engineering consultancy and therefore is a great one-stop-shop to clients.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Arcadis is a global design & consultancy business.We apply our deep market sector insights and collective design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services, we work in partnership with our clients to create exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets. We are part of a team of over 35,000.

Cambridgeshire

Interim Manager and Consultant. Best practice procurement innovatively using HM Treasury's P3M3 model. Worked on procurement of managed service providers to improve maturity of portfolios, programmes and projects drawing on the P3M3 model.

Gatwick

• Re-appointed under new Private Equity owners to lead the whole £1.2Bn portfolio to transform Gatwick airport and making game changing improvements.
• Delivered a significant portfolio of transformation with public accolade resulting in leap-frogging our main competitor in research scores and customer growth in the recession. Delivered all key projects without.
• Restructured the capital plan to deliver London’s Airport of Choice strategy by first time “programme approach” to improve outcomes and make capital savings including over £75m on one programme of £285m with a £20m.
• Awarded first time ISO 9001 & ISO 14001
• Assessed independently as having the highest P3M3 score across all industry and Government internationally to date
• Implemented new Design For Six Sigma process for programme & project management incorporating financial appraisal, defect, snag-free and on time handover and post project appraisal (something organisations often.

Gatwick Airport

• Headhunted as one of 2 leaders to transform construction at Gatwick including improving capital value and implementing best practice.
• Restructured the division post acquisition to re-focus and de-risk to meet new financing arrangements
• Conducted under new ownership a review of the capital programme saving over £100m net whilst delivering a significant additional benefit of the highly acclaimed passenger security area. The innovative “best in the.
• Dramatically improved service to customers to meet new strategy as well as huge improvement in performance of contractors to standard form NEC3 contracts.

National

• Promoted after 2 years to report to the Chief Executive responsible for sales & commercial. Managed a strategically important development programme to Nuffield & The Department for Health.
• Commercially responsible for all contracts with all major customers (£850m pa), renegotiated all resulting in an average 8% increase in margin in the first year of recession. Led a strategic M&A programme involving a.
• Advised Dept for Health on modernising the NHS, how to implement private involvement in healthcare & how to implement private management in NHS Hospitals, including options for the first NHS hospital to be managed.

Brought into Nuffield to manage strategic projects for the group including developing the first mobile hospitals together with the subsidiary Vanguard Healthcare, Nuffield’s elective surgery for the NHS, single call centre, multiple M&A transactions and a portfolio of PPP bids each with £60m-£240m in fees.

Huntingdon

• Member of AWI Management Board. Promoted to the Mgt Board to manage the portfolio of capital developments, international business development and International Operations. Chair of AWG plc Board’s investment committee.
• Key part of a small team which turned around the business from £20m pa loss to £40m pa profit (EBITDA)
• Set up, negotiated and managed major international acquisitions, JVs and other deals to deliver growth
• Led a team of international consultants who drove performance and change into new acquisitions and undertook Government (DFID) work globally.
• Introduced new methods for managing group businesses which aligned business strategy to group and resulted in the investment returns 2 years earlier than planned
• Developed & implemented a new commercial strategy & systems including investment appraisal

Cambridgeshire

• Developed international strategy and implemented business development systems. Promoted.
• Reduced development spend by 75%, maintained growth and vastly increasing profitability ( see above)
• Managed all AWG’s new commercial ventures. Trained & implemented new investment policy, set up all major JVs for bidding and managing major projects in the UK and internationally.
• Initiated, implemented and managed AWG’s new group-wide commercial review system
• Managed the development, capital programme & process improvement of an innovative programme in 4 major cities in China including new and refurbishment of existing infrastructure
• Winner of 1999 Utility Industry Achievement Award for partnering

Cambridgeshire

• Deputy Director of Production. Responsible for performance management and driving change into production in the UK economically regulated business; developing accountability and best practice.
• Introduced programme and portfolio methods for first time to the regulated business developing a predictable capital programme.
• Reduced opex by £10m and improved service so moving AW to top of service and quality league tables by a 10% margin earning AW a service bonus from Ofwat and making AW the industry’s leading water company and top of.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

• Responsible for setting up & managing new consultancy building a team of consultants which undertook a wide variety of energy infrastructure projects across the energy industry.
• Led numerous management consultancy, capacity, fuel logistics & operational projects.
• Group Chief Inspector for aviation fuel, member of the Heathrow ‘Wooden tops’ – responsible for developing & setting global aviation fuel standards.
• Lecturer to Oxford College of Petroleum Studies on fuel logistics and aviation fuel quality
• Managed 40% of UK’s aviation and ground fuel bulk transport for Shell, BP, MoD and others
• Oil accountant responsible for production of accounts and excise collection accounts

Bsc, Chemical Science

Activities and Societies: Photographic Society

Education record

Activities and Societies: Sailing Team