Occupiers and Retail - Senior Cost Consultant

Arcadis 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. 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

Working as part of and leading a team alongside Level 9 and above team members in the Cost & Commercial Management Career family to manage and deliver projects. Liaising with external contractors and consultants. Reporting to clients and stakeholders. Will manage the delivery of cost management in small/medium commercial/retail/residential developments or significant components of larger cost management assignments.

Role accountabilities

• 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

• Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
• Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
• Experience in managing business relationships at middle‑management level.
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
• CSCS card holder.

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

Our commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging. 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.