Associate Commercial Director

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 currently seeking 2 personable, enthusiastic, and energetic Associate Commercial Directors to join our Cost & Commercial Management team to support our continuing growth within our resilience business for key clients in the Water Sector. 

You will be an Associate Commercial Director within our Cost & Commercial Management team, working on a variety of water/utilities projects and programmes in the Reading, London and South Coast area.  

You'll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and keen eye for detail, you'll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients to deliver a more sustainable tomorrow. 

The role sits within our Resilience GBA, where we work to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanisation, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we are seeing large-scale, unforeseen events, such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations. 

Role accountabilities: 

In this role, you will take ownership of a range of projects on cost management assignments, ensuring that standards of delivery meet defined objectives. Our team of Graduate, Assistant, Project, & Senior level Cost Consultants work on a variety of clean and wastewater projects and support our clients with the protection and enhancement of environmental matters across the country. 

• Working as part of and leading our local commercial teams embedded with these clients, with the ability to take ownership of significant programmes and advising on the administration of NEC  and iChemE contracts, including assessment of contractual change and payments, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practices. 
• Providing thought leadership and strategic oversight. 
• Ensuring technical competence and quality within our delivery teams including review and sign off team outputs before submission to our clients. 
• Establishing friendly, professional and .friendly, strong connections and professional relationships with our clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support. 
• Work within established financial systems to provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget. 
• Proactively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow to ensure that applications are made correctly and on time through all gateways to minimise cost and scope changes throughout the project life cycle. 
• Collaborating with client and commercial teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering. 
• Provide advice on and manage Risk and value management/meetings as required for the projects. 
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities 
• 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. 
• Leading people and commissions as needed with line manager duties for the team. 
• Ensuring that final accounts are audited, negotiated and agreed 

Other requirements: 

Hybrid working with requirements for client travel between London, Reading and South Coast areas 

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Possess a minimum 10 years postgraduate experience in Commercial Management 
• Have a minimum of 3 years experience in the water industry 
• Is an experienced leader of cost and commercial teams 
• Experience in Client Development 
• Demonstrating self-management and prioritisation skills with the ability to work under pressure. 
• Good knowledge of specialised fields, including construction processes and cost and commercial management in a consultancy setting. 
• NEC Contract experience and iChemE Desirable 
• Possess the skills to actively support our internal team and manage staff on projects typically ranging between £40m and £150m. 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders and third parties. 
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering 
• Experience in managing, coaching and mentoring colleagues  
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion. 
• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject. 
• Appropriate professional body membership e.g MRICS, CinstCES (or equivalent) 

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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