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About the Role

Arcadis is seeking Senior Quantity Surveyors to join our Cost & Commercial Management team to support growth within our resilience business for a Global Client in the Water Sector. You will be a Senior Cost Consultant working on water/utilities projects in the Reading and London area, helping to deliver iconic projects and transformational outcomes for clients.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of cost management assignments, ensuring delivery standards meet defined objectives.
• Lead a team alongside the Commission Lead, managing post-contract administration of NEC contracts, including assessment of contractual changes and payments.
• Establish professional relationships with clients, colleagues, and project stakeholders.
• Monitor, forecast, and report project costs accurately within established financial systems and budgets.
• Proactively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow to ensure timely and correct applications.
• Collaborate with client and commercial teams to manage project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives.
• Provide advice on and manage Risk and Value Management meetings.
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders to ensure satisfaction and identify new business opportunities.
• Analyze data and documents to provide advice and recommendations for cost and commercial management decision-making.
• Lead people and commissions as needed.
• Ensure final accounts are audited, negotiated, and agreed.

Requirements

• Demonstrate self-management and prioritization skills with the ability to work under pressure.
• Possess good knowledge of specialized fields, including construction processes and cost and commercial management in a consultancy setting.
• NEC Contract experience.
• Ability to support the internal team and manage junior staff on projects typically ranging between £5m and £40m.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders and third parties.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
• Experience in managing, coaching, and mentoring junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion.

Skills

• Cost management
• Commercial management
• NEC Contracts
• Risk management
• Value management
• Client relationship management
• Team leadership
• Coaching
• Mentoring

Location

• Reading
• London

Work Type

• Hybrid working
• Client travel

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject (ideal)
• Appropriate professional body membership, MRICS or working towards chartership (ideal)

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 work to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations.
• 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.

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.