Senior Cost Consultant - Property Manchester - #1698136

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:

As a Senior Cost Consultant, you will play a key role in the residential sector, delivering cost and commercial management services for medium to large-scale projects. You will work collaboratively with clients, consultants, and internal teams, ensuring successful project delivery that meets budget, time, and quality expectations.

We are looking for a candidate with strong technical expertise, leadership potential, and a passion for mentoring others while driving innovation and excellence in cost management.

Role accountabilities:

• Will work alongside associate level or above to manage the delivery of cost management of medium to large projects
• Responsible for delivering their scope of work in line with various controls, and will have technical knowledge and experience in their field
• Experience in the residential sector would be advantageous along with knowledge in this sector
• Assist in the coaching and development of other team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery
• Assist in the delivering of cost planning at various design stages and taking ownership for key elements of such
• Deliver a number 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
• Adhere to quality assurance protocols in place within Arcadis
• Present any 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 in conjunction with own knowledge to provide advice and make recommendations to support 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
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration with the cost management function, and applying technical knowledge to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet cost expectations
• Provide specialist technical advice to senior management on issues relating to cost/commercial management, providing solutions and actively sharing knowledge in order to support successful delivery
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities
• Demonstrable understanding of clients key objectives within the appropriate sector
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven experience in cost management, with expertise in the residential sector preferred.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with experience supporting junior team members.
• Capable of managing projects from inception to completion, ensuring successful delivery.
• Demonstrable ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and external stakeholders.
• Proficient in the use of measurement software such as CostX or similar tools.
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex projects.
• A deep understanding of cost and commercial management principles, particularly in the residential sector
• Familiarity with current industry standards, regulations, and best practices.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• 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.

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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.