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 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.

Role description:

As part of our Cost Management team, you’ll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they’re delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.

The energy landscape as we know it is rapidly transforming; generating and processing enough clean energy is a big challenge to assist with the world’s Net Carbon Zero needs. Join our Energy team and you will be part of an industry-leading team, where you can apply your skills to energy mega projects across the UK.

As a Quantity Surveyor will join a team of cost managers and project managers on a variety of projects in the energy sector. Your role will assist project teams with the formation of contract procurement documentation and commercial administration activities of contracts during the execution phase to help support the safe, successful delivery of our client’s programme, projects and business objectives.

The Quantity Surveyor provides a professional commercial support service to the client’s programme / project teams through the efficient identification, procurement and administration of contracts, identifying and controlling costs and commercial risks & opportunities and forecasting in support of the Programme / Project Execution Plans.

You should have great interpersonal skills that will enable you to build up positive and effective relationships within both the project teams and wider client organisation.

Role accountabilities:

• Work independently within established financial systems to monitor and review project costs and variances on small commercial/regeneration/residential projects, in order to control cost variables
• Deliver/assist to manage medium to large scale cost projects or significant components of cost management assignments, ensuring the delivery of the required scope of work within set deadlines
• Understand and comply with business risk and present any project concerns or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted
• Provide advice to colleagues on principles of risk management, to ensure adherence to the organisation’s risk and compliance processes
• Analyse and review a range of data to collate trends and prepare documentation such as delivery plans, providing advice and making recommendations to support cost and commercial management decision-making
• Use own knowledge and experience to review and analyse existing cost and commercial management processes and policies, sharing knowledge and taking an active involvement in service improvement and innovation
• Interact with internal and external customers, applying technical knowledge to complete complex, professional level tasks in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations
• Provide specialist technical advice and guidance within area, supporting others with cost management queries and actively sharing knowledge in order to inform colleagues and provide a high level of service to clients
• Collaborate with external stakeholders to gain an in-depth understanding of their needs in order to resolve stakeholder issues and provide quality client care, contributing to ongoing client satisfaction

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status with a relevant professional institution i.e. RICS, CIPS, ICE, CIOB etc.
• Demonstrable experience with the NEC suite of contracts
• Experience in delivering analysis and insights
• Demonstration of self-management and prioritisation skills with the ability to work under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to influence stakeholders and third parties
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion

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.