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About the Role
We are growing our Life Sciences & Research Cost Management team and are looking for a Senior Cost Consultant to help shape some of the UK and Europe’s most exciting research, technology and life sciences projects. You will provide trusted commercial advice that helps clients bring innovative facilities to life, leading complex projects from early feasibility through to successful delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services on laboratory, research, and science facility projects across the UK and Europe.
- Partner with clients to develop cost models, feasibility studies, and budgets that support informed investment decisions.
- Prepare robust cost plans, estimates, and benchmarking analyses that maximize value and commercial performance.
- Manage procurement activities, evaluate contractor submissions, and support commercial negotiations.
- Drive contract administration, cost control, and change management throughout the project lifecycle.
- Provide leadership and mentoring to junior team members, supporting their development and technical excellence.
- Champion continuous improvement, innovation, and the adoption of digital cost management tools and processes.
Requirements
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
- Proven experience delivering Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services on laboratory, research, pharmaceutical, or other complex scientific facilities.
- Strong commercial awareness with a detailed understanding of MEP-intensive projects and their key cost drivers.
- Confident in presenting cost advice and commercial recommendations to clients and project stakeholders.
- Experience using digital cost management tools such as CostX, 5D BIM, and benchmarking platforms.
Skills
- Quantity Surveying
- Cost Management
- Cost Modeling
- Feasibility Studies
- Budget Development
- Cost Planning
- Estimating
- Benchmarking
- Procurement Management
- Commercial Negotiation
- Contract Administration
- Cost Control
- Change Management
- MEP-intensive projects
- Digital Cost Management Tools
- CostX
- 5D BIM
Location
- UK
- Europe
- London
- Oxford
- Cambridge
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline
- Chartered Quantity Surveyor (MRICS) is desirable
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. Join Arcadis. Create a 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.