Job ID: 41815Reference: 300015694392805Location: London, Greater London, United KingdomDepartment: Cost ManagementBusiness Unit: AUK UKWork Type: On-siteDate Posted: 2026-07-02Arcadis 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. We are seeking an Senior Cost Consultant/ Quantity Surveyor to work in a multi-disciplinary team on major commercial, residential (all classes) and mixed-use developments. Our ideal candidate will be responsible managing all pre and post contract commercial aspects of a project, ensuring that budgets are considered and maintained as design and project aspirations are developed. The pre-contract service delivery will include team leadership, producing estimates, cost benchmarking reports and cost plans and undertaking due diligence through to tendering and contract collation and execution. Post contract, you will be required to undertake project contract administration, financial reporting and control and final account agreements. The role will include working in a specialist property team, and the successful candidate will be fully supported and trained where necessary. This is a great opportunity for anindividual looking to progress their career and work on some of the largest residential-led and commercial projects in London and the Southeast with nationally recognised developers. Responsibility for full or part delivery of cost consultancy services (prime and affordable residential all classes, hotels, office, commercial, sports and leisure, retrofit, etc.) to budget, quality and time metrics through all RIBA stages including:– Pre-contract cost and viability advice– Post contract valuations, change control and cost reporting– Cost planning, estimating and final account negotiations– Procurement and contract advice– Claims analysis· Undertake timely and accurate data collection, support analysis and preparation of reports;· Work within established financial systems and project objectives to prepare cost schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets;· Management of any project cost risks or issues to ensure the project is not adversely impacted;· Support analysis and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making;· Interact effectively across the organisation, completing professional level tasks for others to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet client expectations. Qualifications & Experience: Relevant experience including cost management of projects or aspects of projects ranging from 40m to 80m+;· A logical approach to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects;You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & BelongingWe 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. 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.
Senior Quantity Surveyor Projects in London employer: Arcadis
Arcadis UK is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, where sustainability and resilience are at the forefront of our projects. Employees benefit from continuous professional development opportunities, a supportive environment, and the chance to work on impactful projects in the water and energy sectors. Located in the UK, we offer a dynamic workplace that values diversity and encourages creative solutions to complex engineering challenges.
