Associate Cost Consultant

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 are recruiting for Cost Consultants (Commercial Managers) to join our Rail Consultancy business in London. You’ll be working on projects such as HS2, Network Rail, East West Rail & TFL just to name a few

As a Cost Consultant at Arcadis you will lead and manage the pre and post contract Commercial teams responsible for managing the tendering and post contract delivery of multiple and mixed portfolios of infrastructure projects.

We are really flexible on location, with a mixture of client site, office & home working (what ever works for you really)

Role accountabilities:
As a Cost Consultant you'll be responsible for all pre, and post contract commercial activities and managing Commercial teams on assigned project portfolio. Ensuring that Commercial teams are delivering value for money and that fair and effective Commercial Management processes are implemented and maintained throughout the entire project.

You'll Liaise with the Procurement teams on the relevant procurement activities required for delivery in accordance with Procurement timelines. Monitoring project budgets, pro-actively manage the changes on the project, including project risk registers and contingency with the project’s Delivery teams. This will include accurate periodic reporting and presenting of cost data and Cost of Work Done (COWD), accounting for any variances against budget in all commercial reports within the assigned project portfolio.

Working with other internal teams is essential, liaising with the Estimating team to provide accurate and current project cost data, evaluating high value changes as required.

You'll also undertake regular commercial reviews of both internal costs and external supplier costs and implement appropriate measures to manage any issues and mitigate risks.

You'll mentor & guide teams throughout the project & take a strategic position on all decisions that impact project.

Qualifications & Experience:
We'd love you to have a strong working knowledge and experience of working with, or for, publicly funded bodies and projects.

Experience of working under construction contract terms and conditions, preferably NEC and ICC, with knowledge of Target Cost/Fixed Price contracts is also a must

This can be gained through commercial Management experience through the planning, development and tendering stages of major infrastructure and/or construction projects, working closely with Procurement teams throughout the tender process to deliver successful contract award and set up of robust post contract administration processes

Experience of implementing and maintaining an effective contract administration process and reporting system that is aligned to programme/project requirements

Experience in contract, commercial and risk management techniques, change management processes and the resolution of contract disputes.

We value chartership very highly here at Arcadis, if you're part way through we can offer great support in achieving your chartership status too

If you feel now is the right time for you to consider a move & you’d like to work on some of the UK’s most prestigious projects, it’s time to update your CV & click “apply”

Why Become an Arcadian?

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.

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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.

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