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About the Role

As an Associate Cost Consultant, you will lead the delivery of cost management on rail-related projects, including HS2. You will be responsible for utilizing resources effectively to meet project standards in cost, time, and quality, leveraging your substantial technical knowledge and experience. You will manage relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring satisfaction and identifying opportunities for service improvement.

Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and develop team members to enhance cost management service delivery in the rail sector.
Create project costings and budgets for rail projects, managing finances to achieve profit and budgetary targets.
Lead and manage cost management assignments, ensuring delivery standards meet client expectations.
Demonstrate understanding of client objectives within the rail sector, specifically regarding cost management.
Monitor team performance and ensure compliance with organizational policies related to cost control.
Assure compliance with contracts concerning project delivery parameters and cost management.
Analyze complex cost data and provide recommendations for project decision-making.
Support the development of current cost and commercial management systems tailored to rail projects.
Drive innovation in cost management to improve services and increase team contribution.
Build valued relationships with senior clients and stakeholders for client satisfaction and business opportunities in the rail sector.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
CSCS card holder.
Relevant professional experience in delivering medium/large rail projects across an entire project lifecycle, including projects like HS2.
Extensive experience in cost and commercial management within the rail sector.
Proven leadership skills and ability to motivate others in cost management roles.

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.

About the Company

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.
We believe everyone's contribution matters.
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.

Equal Opportunity

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.