City of London, England, United KingdomPosted 22 days agoFull-time
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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:
As demand continues to grow across our Mobility business, we're looking for a
Project Cost Consultant to join our Commercial Management team in London & South
East. Working across a diverse portfolio of major highways infrastructure
projects, you'll play a key role in helping clients manage cost, commercial risk
and project performance throughout the project lifecycle.
This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially aware cost professional who
enjoys working collaboratively, building strong client relationships and
contributing to the successful delivery of complex infrastructure programmes.
Role accountabilities:
As part of our growing Mobility Commercial Management team, you'll support the
delivery of cost management services across a range of highways projects and
programmes.
You'll be responsible for managing your own project workstreams or supporting
larger commissions, providing robust commercial insight and helping clients make
informed decisions.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Preparing and maintaining cost plans, budgets, estimates and commercial
reports.
• Monitoring project costs, forecasting expenditure and analysing variances.
• Supporting the management of small to medium-sized commissions and key
elements of larger projects.
• Identifying commercial risks, issues and opportunities throughout project
delivery.
• Working closely with clients, contractors and multidisciplinary project
teams.
• Providing cost and commercial advice in line with established governance and
compliance processes.
• Supporting continuous improvement and helping drive innovation across cost
management delivery.
• Attending project and site meetings, building strong relationships with
stakeholders and project partners.
Qualifications & Experience:
We're interested in hearing from candidates who have experience within
infrastructure, transport or construction environments and are looking to grow
their career within a leading consultancy.
You'll bring:
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying or
Commercial Management.
• Experience working on infrastructure, highways, transportation or aviation
projects.
• Strong knowledge of NEC3 and NEC4 contracts, including compensation events
and contract administration.
• The ability to analyse commercial information and produce accurate cost and
reporting outputs.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A proactive and organised approach, with the ability to manage competing
priorities.
• A sound understanding of construction delivery and cost management
methodologies.
• A degree in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
• Progress towards, or achievement of, a professional qualification such as
MRICS.
• A CSCS card or willingness to obtain one.
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.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & 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.
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