Associate Cost Consultant - Leading UK Bank

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We have an exciting opportunity to work on an account for a leading banking client with involvement in the delivery of a large capital project or projects.

• Roles at this level will lead the delivery of cost management in commercial/retail/residential projects


• Will be responsible for leading a team and utilising resource to deliver projects within cost, time and quality standards, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in their field

Role accountabilities:

• Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery


• Create project costings and budgets from clear objectives, managing finances across a project in order to ensure the profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved


• Lead and manage individual cost management assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations


• Demonstrable understanding of clients key objectives with the appropriate sector


• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure compliance with the organisational policies and codes of conduct across the entire project


• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service


• Analyse and compile a range of complex data and documents, using knowledge to review and assess analysis and provide recommendations to contribute to project decision-making


• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to support the development of current cost and commercial management systems and processes


• Work to improve services and drive innovation to increase team contribution to project delivery


• Manage relationships with customers in order to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and deliver customer satisfaction


• Act as a key technical resource within the field of cost/commercial management, providing technical advice and solutions to internal colleagues in order to support successful project delivery across a range of projects


• Build valued relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction, develop the cost management service and create new business opportunities

Qualifications & Experience:

• Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team and manage resources on technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging between £10m and £100m


• Relevant professional experience in a similar working environment, including delivering medium/large projects across an entire project life cycle


• Relevant cost and commercial management experience.


• Experience of managing people, and leadership skills including the ability to motivate others


• Experience in building and managing client relationships at senior-management level, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor


• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent


• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status


• CSCS card holder

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why 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.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

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.

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