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About the Role
The Senior Cost Consultant will take a leading role in delivering cost management services across major projects and programmes in the UK. Working within the Places Commercial Management team, the role involves regular site-based engagement, close collaboration with contractors and client teams, and responsibility for ensuring consistent, accurate and high-quality commercial outcomes. You will be responsible for the management of several workstreams or significant elements of larger programmes, applying strong technical capability, sound professional judgement and effective stakeholder management to support successful project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Assist in the coaching and development of other team members to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve service delivery.
- Work within established financial systems and budgets to produce reports and forecasts, track budgets, and oversee costing and variances to manage and control cost variables.
- Deliver small to medium cost projects and assignments or significant components of larger assignments, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.
- Provide advice to colleagues on risk management, compliance and associated behaviours to ensure adherence to Arcadis’ risk and compliance processes.
- Present project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted.
- Analyse and review a range of data and documents to collate key themes and trends, using this analysis and own knowledge to provide advice and make recommendations for cost and commercial management decision-making.
- Use own knowledge and experience combined with research of industry best practice to analyse existing processes and policies.
- Share knowledge and provide insightful recommendations to assist service improvement and innovation.
Requirements
- Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team on technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging in size and scope.
- Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills.
- Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
- Experience in managing business relationships at senior-management level.
- Capable of leading and taking a project through from inception to completion.
Skills
- Cost management
- Commercial management
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Stakeholder management
- Technical capability
- Professional judgement
Location
- London
- Cardiff
- Bristol
Work Type
- Site-based engagement (typically 2-3 days per week)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Places is one of Arcadis’ core Global Business Areas, focused on creating, improving, and sustaining the built environment where people live, work, learn, and connect.
- Arcadis is 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.
- We believe everyone's contribution matters.
- We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.
- A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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.
- 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.