Senior Cost Manager - Healthcare Sector in City of London

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.

We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive. Places impact on the quality of people’s lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools and hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centers. People and communities thrive when the spaces in which they live, work, move and play are designed and managed in a way that best meets their needs.

Capital project delivery focus. Working as part of a team alongside members of the Cost & Commercial Management Career family to manage and deliver projects. Liaising with external contractors and consultants. Reporting to clients and stakeholders. Will provide cost management services on a mix of medium and large sized hospital developments or significant components of larger cost management assignments.

Responsible for delivering the scope of work in line with various controls, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in their field. Our healthcare team also works closely with our life sciences and higher education teams in the delivery of laboratories. Assist in the coaching and development of other team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery.

Work within established financial systems and budgets to produce reports and forecasts and track budgets, overseeing costing and variances in order to manage and control cost variables. Deliver a number of small to medium cost projects and assignments or significant components of larger assignments, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.

Provide advice to colleagues on risk management, compliance and associated behaviours, to ensure adherence to Arcadis’ risk and compliance processes. Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted. Analyse and review a range of data and documents to collate key themes and trends, using this analysis in conjunction with own knowledge to provide advice and make recommendations to support cost and commercial management decision-making.

Use own knowledge and experience combined with research of industry best practice to analyse existing processes and policies. Share knowledge and provide insightful recommendations to assist service improvement and innovation. Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration with the cost management function, and applying technical knowledge to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet cost expectations.

Provide specialist technical advice to senior management on issues relating to cost/commercial management, providing solutions and actively sharing knowledge in order to support successful delivery. Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities. Demonstrable understanding of clients key objectives within the appropriate sector.

Qualifications & Experience

• Health sector experience is desirable, but not essential.
• Experience in delivering technically complex buildings can successfully be applied to hospitals.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
• Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
• Capable of taking a project from inception to completion.
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.

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.

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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.