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About the Role
We are seeking a talented Senior Cost Manager to join our Health, Life Science & Research Cost Management team in Edinburgh. This role offers the opportunity to make a real impact by delivering high-profile projects for leading clients, providing advanced commercial and quantity surveying guidance across the UK and Europe. You will collaborate closely with interdisciplinary teams, mentor junior colleagues, and ensure timely, on-budget project completions.
Responsibilities
- Lead quantity surveying and commercial cost management services for clients in health, life science, research, and related sectors.
- Prepare detailed cost estimates, feasibility analyses, and benchmark studies; develop and manage comprehensive cost plans.
- Contribute to procurement activities, evaluate tenders, negotiate contractor proposals, and manage contract changes and variations.
- Oversee cost control throughout construction and project handover; advise on value engineering and whole-life costing solutions.
- Foster close collaboration amongst design, engineering, and project delivery teams; support and mentor junior staff.
Requirements
- MRICS Quantity Surveyor or equivalent professional qualification; substantial commercial experience from diverse backgrounds is also welcomed.
- Demonstrated experience managing medium to large-scale construction projects.
- Sector experience in research, life sciences, or healthcare is an advantage.
- Strong cost estimating abilities and familiarity with industry rates, benchmarking, and cost databases.
- Proven track record of managing projects from initial concept to completion, with a focus on building strong client relationships.
- Proficient in digital cost management systems (such as CostX and 5D BIM).
- Willingness to adopt new technologies is highly valued.
Skills
- Cost management
- Strategic planning
- Estimating
- Budgeting
- Procurement support
- Contract management
- Quantity surveying
- Commercial cost management
- Feasibility assessments
- Cost benchmarking
- Value engineering
- Whole-life costing
- Digital cost management systems
- CostX
- 5D BIM
Location
- Edinburgh
- London
- Oxford
- Cambridge
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- MRICS Quantity Surveyor or equivalent professional qualification
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.