The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading a team and utilising resources to deliver projects within cost, time and quality standards, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in their field.

Typical tasks and activities include:

• Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill levels and continually improve the standard of service delivery.
• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure compliance with our organisational policies and codes of conduct.
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to support the development of the existing Arcadis Cost Assurance systems and processes.
• Lead and manage multiple cost assurance assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations.
• Create project costings and budgets from clear objectives.
• Managing finances across multiple projects in order to ensure profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved for Arcadis and our clients.
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service.
• Demonstrable understanding of multiple infrastructure related market sectors.
• Manage relationships with clients in order to identify future opportunities.
• Actively seek new client and workstream generation.
• Internal and external marketing/development of the CCA service line.
• Management of key stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Effective presentation of final report outputs and recommendations to clients and contractors.
• Detailed analysis of cost data against contractual/commercial principles.
• Appraisal of cost/commercial management systems and processes.
• Travelling to different sites/locations nationally and internationally.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant professional experience of delivering medium to large projects across multiple market sectors.
• Relevant consultancy and advisory experience.
• Extensive knowledge and competence in the use of construction contracts, preferably NEC3 / NEC4 Option C (Target Cost).
• Knowledge of data modelling, data cleansing, and data enrichment techniques.
• Demonstrable experience with developing and generating new clients and workstreams.
• Experience of managing people, including the ability to motivate others on complex programmes.
• Experience in creating, developing and managing client relationships at all levels, including the capability to become a trusted advisor.
• Experience of identifying and assessing risks in project environments.
• Ability to maintain high standards of work and meet deadlines whilst working under pressure.
• The ability to effectively communicate with a range of individuals at varying levels of seniority.
• The ability to grasp high level concepts and is comfortable with less structured tasks.
• The ability to demonstrate ‘output thinking’ from the outset.

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.