Occupiers and Retail - Senior Cost Consultant in Leeds

Work as part of and lead a team alongside Level 9 and above team members in the Cost & Commercial Management Career family to manage and deliver projects.

Liaise with external contractors and consultants. Report to clients and stakeholders. Manage and deliver cost management for small/medium commercial/retail/residential developments or significant components of larger cost management assignments. Deliver the scope of work in line with controls, leveraging technical knowledge and experience.

Role Accountabilities

• Assist in the coaching and development of other team members to share knowledge, increase skill level, and improve service delivery standards.
• Work within established financial systems and budgets to produce reports and forecasts, track budgets, oversee costing and variances 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 meet required scope within deadlines.
• Provide advice to colleagues on risk management, compliance and associated behaviours, ensuring adherence to Arcadis’ risk and compliance processes.
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to prevent adverse impacts.
• Analyze 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 analyze existing processes and policies.
• Share knowledge and provide insightful recommendations to assist service improvement and innovation.
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organization, developing collaboration ways to support the cost management function, applying technical knowledge to ensure projects/programs are 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 to support successful delivery.
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities.
• Demonstrate understanding of clients’ key objectives within the appropriate sector.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
• Experience working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
• Experience 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.