Location
Manchester

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people in more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving the world’s most complex challenges together.

We are expanding our UK Places cost management capability. Places is one of Arcadis’ core Global Business Areas, focused on creating, improving, and sustaining the built environment where people live, work, learn, and connect. This includes buildings, property, regeneration and development, cities and urban environments, mixed-use and commercial schemes, education, healthcare, public sector estates, and planning, design, and project delivery.

As a Senior Cost Consultant, you will manage the delivery of cost management for small to medium developments or significant components of larger assignments. You will ensure scope of work is delivered in line with controls and apply your significant technical knowledge and experience in cost and commercial management.

Your responsibilities will include coaching and developing team members to enhance skills and service delivery standards, working within financial systems and budgets to produce reports, forecasts, and track costs, and delivering projects within set deadlines. You will provide advice on risk management and compliance, present project risks or issues to senior managers, analyse data to identify key themes and trends, and use industry best practices to recommend service improvements and innovations.

Experience
- Proven ability to support internal teams on technically complex projects or programmes of work of varying size and scope.
- Experience coaching and mentoring junior colleagues with emerging leadership skills.
- Skilled in managing business relationships at middle-management level and working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.

About you
- Strong technical knowledge in cost and commercial management.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively coach team members and liaise with clients.
- Proactive and able to manage multiple projects while maintaining high standards.
- Committed to delivering sustainable and innovative solutions.

Qualifications
- Relevant professional qualifications or equivalent experience in cost consultancy or quantity surveying.
- Demonstrated ability to take projects from inception through to completion.