Senior Cost Consultant (Defence)

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At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Our Places business area is focused on creating and managing sustainable places where people live, work, and thrive; we’re working together to build a better, more sustainable future. And even though our Places business is rapidly growing, we have ambitious plans to go further. We need strategic thinkers; we need people to deliver our plans. As one of the fastest growing areas in Arcadis, we’re here for the long-term. Our careers reflect that. You’ll develop, grow and exceed your potential. We take your career journey seriously and we’ll support you every step of the way, so if you are seeking full time, part time or something else entirely we will do our very best to consider it.

Role description:

We are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Quantity Surveyor/ Senior Cost Consultant to join our Defence team and lead the commercial management function across various commissions.

You will have responsibility for delivering a scope of work in line with all pre & post contract stages of works, including use of cost models, investment appraisals, cost reporting and benchmarking data.

Role accountabilities:

• Key member of the project delivery team, achieving objectives, delivering to performance targets and ensuring that cost team have the necessary skills to deliver the project objectives
• Manage our relationship with the client to ensure satisfaction, meeting client objectives, managing pipeline and delivering account growth.
• Lead the cost management activity across the works programme to ensure delivery standards meet expectations
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of programme delivery parameters and scope of service
• Analyse and review complex information from a range of data sources including in order to identify how different options may impact project delivery and advise clients and internal stakeholders on potential implications
• Develop cost management framework processes and policies and help lead the implementation of system improvements for own programmes, ensuring developments are in line with strategic business objectives
• Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders in order to identify opportunities for improved efficiencies and collaboration between projects to ensure commercial viability and customer satisfaction
• Act as a technical expert within the programme and associated projects, providing strategic advice to other managers, in order to support successful delivery in line with programme outcomes
• Manage and build relationships with client project sponsors/stakeholders in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and are aligned to meet objectives.
• Assist in the coaching and development of other team members to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status
• Significant technical knowledge
• Experience in (but not limited to) the Local Government, Central Government or Defence sectors
• Experience using digital cost tools such as CostX, 5D BIM etc
• Due to the nature of the projects you’ll be working on, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) is required. If you do not already have BPSS level clearance, you would need to be willing to go through this process.
  
  

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

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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